Comments on: ipodder (v2.1) on Ubuntu ‘Hoary’

By: Simon Morris

Simon Morris — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 19:57:49 +0000

Thanks for the tip about PYTHONPATH.. I googled.. found it and now it works

Nice one :)

By: Tony in Vancouver

Tony in Vancouver — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 04:08:49 +0000

Thank you to all above. I ran into almost all of the above problems on my desktop machine, and if I had read more carefully, it would not have taken me the half hour it did to get everything working fine.

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 19:32:32 +0000

Thanks for the info, Marc. I decided to look into podcasts today and soon discovered iPodder but couldn’t get it to work OOB on Ubuntu. I found this post via Google and your fixes did the trick. I’m listening to my first podcast (TWiT) as I write this. :)

By: David "sixhat"

David "sixhat" — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 20:23:54 +0000

The Problem UBU has ocured to me also. It seams that the file

/opt/iPodder/ipodder/players.py has the wrong permissions after instalation

If you ls -al you’ll see that file doesn’t have read permissions for group or others… changing that should fix it… it worked for me..

So doing:

sudo chmod 644 /opt/iPodder/ipodder/players.py

should fix the problem…

Hope this helps…

By: Marc Nozell

Marc Nozell — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 15:46:12 +0000

Are you in the /opt/iPodder directory when you startup? It looks like
python isn’t finding iPodder-provided libraries.

I don’t use iPodder to *listen* to the downloads and have set in iPodder’s
preferences to use “No Player”. If you can’t even get iPodder up
and running, edit ipodder.cfg so there is a line that looks like this:

player_type = 'NoPlayer'

On startup there is a message saying “xmms couldn’t be imported”.

FWIW, here are the xmms-related packages I have installed.

$ dpkg --list|grep xmms ii gxmms 0.2.1-2 Simple GNOME applet to control the basic fun ii python-xmms 2.03-1ubuntu1 Python interface to XMMS ii python2.3-xmms 2.03-1ubuntu1 Python interface to XMMS (Python 2.3 version ii pyxmms-remote 1.11-4 command-line interface to XMMS ii xmms 1.2.10-2ubuntu Versatile X audio player that looks like Win ii xmms-mp4 2.0.0-0.3 a mp4/aac audio player for xmms ii xmms-qbble 1.2-10 XMMS playlist manager with search support ii xmms-shell 0.99.3-5 XMMS Shell - Interface to control XMMS from ii xmms-skins 0.5-1 Skins for XMMS

By: ubu

ubu — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 12:17:27 +0000

It’s fine up-to that pont. But it still needs some python-xmms stuff?? What should I install?

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “iPodderGui.py”, line 38, in ?
import iPodderWindows
File “/opt/iPodder/iPodderWindows.py”, line 6, in ?
import gui.tree
File “/opt/iPodder/gui/tree.py”, line 16, in ?
from ipodder import grabbers
File “/opt/iPodder/ipodder/grabbers.py”, line 56, in ?
from configuration import __version__
File “/opt/iPodder/ipodder/configuration.py”, line 15, in ?
import players