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How to build the latest Tomahawk Player on Ubuntu 11.04

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Tomahawk Player is a next generation music player. It features custom stations (building upon the beatuiful Echo Nest), a playlist importer, social connection to Twitter, Google Chat, and Jabber. Maybe most important of all: It's able to find and pull music from different sources like YouTube, last.fm, SoundCloud, Skreemr, Spotify, and more using the Playdar approach. Of course, it can also play songs from your local library. Make sure to check out the video if you like to know more.

First a word of warning: Tomahawk is still beta, version 0.1.0 is the most current release, but there's no PPA yet for Ubuntu systems. The instructions in the wiki are for Maverick and didn't work for me. That's why I thought I write a short tutorial on how to compile Tomahawk Player on Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal).

Update: No need to build version 0.1.0 yourself anymore if you are on Ubuntu 11.04, because the PPA has been updated! Just add ppa:paulo-miguel-dias/tomahawk to your sources, update, and install. In more detail:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:paulo-miguel-dias/tomahawk
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude install tomahawk

Meet the dependencies

First of all, make sure you have all the dependencies installed. I am not 100% sure if the following list is complete because I might have already had some of the necessary libs on my system. Anyway:

sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake libtag1c2a libtag1-dev libqt4-dev libqt4-sql-sqlite \
    libphonon-dev libboost-dev zlib1g-dev libqjson-dev libz-dev \
    libqca2-dev pkg-config git-core phonon-backend-gstreamer

This should install all required packages. More experienced users could als try a different backend for phonon.

Furthermore, libechonest and Clucene are prerequesites for Tomahawk, so download the latest tarball from https://projects.kde.org/projects/playground/libs/libechonest/ and extract it. Step into the new directory libechonest-* and run these commands:

mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
make
sudo make install

Now, clone CLucene from their git repository and install it:

git clone git://clucene.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/clucene/clucene
cd clucene && mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
make
sudo make install

Resolvers

Resolvers are small plugins to Tomahawk that enable the player to search and stream music from differen sources. There's already a collection of resolvers for a number of third-party services which can be used.

git clone https://github.com/tomahawk-player/tomahawk-resolvers.git

That's it for now, I show you how to enable various resolvers once we got the player up and running.

Optional Spotify support

If you live in a country where you have access to Spotify, you might want Tomahawk Player be able to stream music directly from this wonderful service. In order to do so, download the archive for your architecture from http://developer.spotify.com/en/libspotify/overview/ and extract it.

cd libspotify-*-linux*
sudo make install prefix=/usr/local

Now, cd into the tomahawk-resolvers directory that was created in the last step.

cd spotify
mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
make

there should be an executable spotify_tomahawkresolver in the build directory. You can leave it there for the time being.

Build the actual player

Let's compile the Tomahawk Player itself alreaddy:

git clone https://github.com/tomahawk-player/tomahawk.git
cd tomahawk
git submodule init && git submodule update
mkdir build && cd build
cmake -DINTERNAL_JREEN=ON -DINTERNAL_QTWEETLIB=ON ..
make

You can probably go and drink a cup of coffee because the process takes a while ;-)

After this has finished, it's time to run the player for the first time: ./tomahawk. You can set up the location of your local music collection, you can enter various accounts, and you can add resolvers. In order to do so from the Tomahawk settings dialog, klick and the add button, navigate into the respective directory beneath tomahawk-resolvers, and select the *.js/*.py/*.php file or the above-mentioned spotify_tomahawkresolver executable. Play around with your new player a little to get to know all of its features.

Enjoy the future of music listening today!

Update: According to domme's comment, libgnutls-dev libgloox-dev are not required anymore, so I removed them from the instructions.

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domme am :

domme

Hey

libgnutls-dev libgloox-dev are not needed anymore because we replaced gloox with jreen and that uses QCA instead of gnutls.

I dont know how ubuntu handles QCA packaging but you should make sure qca-ossl plugin is installed if you want to connect to jabber servers encryptedly - like Google Talk requires it.

Best regards, Domme

Matthias Gutjahr am :

Matthias Gutjahr

Thanks for your comment, domme, I removed those libs from my instructions.

ffuentes am :

ffuentes

Looks like most of the resolvers make the Tomahawk crash. Are there older versions of resolvers that may work better?

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