Entertainer is a relatively new media center for Gnome and XFCE desktops, currently at version 0.1 as of this writing. This tutorial will focus on the installation of Entertainer on Ubuntu with as little command line use as possible. If you’re comfortable with the command line, this tutorial should suffice. We’ll assume you’ve downloaded the tar.gz from the Entertainer website.
We’ve saved the .tar.gz to /home/jason.
Right click the .tar.gz and hit Extract Here. You should have a new folder called entertainer-0.1.
We’ll need to install some files before we’re able to run Entertainer. Copy and paste the following into the Terminal (no changes needed):
sudo apt-get install python-gobject python-gtk2 python-gst0.10 python-clutter \ python-pysqlite2 python-cddb python-glade2 python-cairo python-feedparser \ python-pyinotify python-eyed3 python-pyvorbis python-imaging python-imdbpy \ python-notify
Hit Enter, and enter your password. Wait for all the files to be downloaded and installed (when it’s finished you’ll be able to execute commands again). Close the Terminal.
Head into your entertainer-0.1 directory, then head into the src folder.
Double click the entertainer-content-management.py file, and click Run.
Click an applicable tab. We chose Music. Click Add, and choose a folder where you keep music files. Do the same with Videos, Images, and you can configure RSS feeds and Weather if you wish. When you’re done, click Close.
Double click entertainer-backend.py, and choose Run. Now double click entertainer-frontend.py, and choose Run. If all went well, the program should start. Direct any questions to the comments section below.
Thanks for the great walk through, it worked just fine.
Charles: Glad you found it helpful.
Hey worked fine, just wondering, how do I get entertainer to start in the applications menu or automatically? Also, how do I go back a page as I must use the arrows keys to navigate(no remote).
Many Thanks, was very simple the way you descibed!!!!
For the application part, you can right click -> edit menus to add a launcher to the application. I may detail this process later in a future post.
As for the going back a page, try backspace.