Minitube – a native youtube client

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• Hello, I have 2 questions regarding this.
  1.) I’m using Ubuntu, so is there a way to have this app on Ubuntu
  2.) In my system, gstreamer is corrupted somehow and doesn’t work. So I use xine. Can I use xine for this program?

• @ ප්‍රවීන්
  Even though I don’t have access to an Ubuntu box, these steps will help I think.

  1. Install phonon (sudo aptitude install phonon) this will also pull qt4 if you don’t have it installed.

  2. Run the binary available in the authors website
  http://flavio.tordini.org/files/minitube/minitube-linux-0.5.tar.gz

  OR

  1. Install development tools and qt and phonon development libraries
  (sudo aptitude install build-essential qt4-dev, phonon-dev)

  2. Build and install minitube as usual (qmake, make, make install)

  Xine and Gstreamer:

  I think the phonon xine backend is also available in Ubuntu. (in fedora it’s called phonon-backend-xine)

• thanks Prasan.
  I gotta try this.. 🙂

• I cant get minitube. Im using Leonidas, it says that cannot find the package “minitube”. Do you know some manual way to get it?

• @Kupras
  The version in wellassa repo is for Leonidas x86_64.

  You can get the binary from minitube website
  http://flavio.tordini.org/files/minitube/minitube-linux-0.7.tar.gz

  Don’t forget to install qt4, phonon and gstreamer backend for phonon.

• thanks for share your experiences, now i have a youtube native client on my Fedora 12. Good

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