Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] I'm using speech recognition with rhythmbox, need help with install

[Paul Kuliniewicz <kuliniew purdue edu>]

On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 05:55:09AM -0600, jeffslists wrote:
> 
> Rhythmbox looks like a great application.  I am considering adding a 
> tcp/ip socket inteface the rhythmbox source code so I can communicate 
> with the speech process in my jukebox system.  I'm going to send xml 
> through the sockets.

There's already an interface for controlling Rhythmbox from a remote
program, using the interface exposed via Bonobo.  It'll probably be
easier to use that instead of adding a TCP/IP interface.  It's not a
full command set, but it might be enough for what you want to do.  You
can take a look at Rhythmbox Applet [0] for an example of how you can
use it.

> First though I need help installing this app.  I've been using linux for 
> six years as a server, but I don't have much experience installing user 
> apps.  I really do not enjoy trying to install user apps on linux.  
> Could I get a little help?  I don't know where to start.  I already 
> tried installing some rpm's.  I am running Mandrake 10.1.  It might also 
> help to mention I have a b.s. in computer science.

If you want to install from source, unpack the tarball and do:

./configure
make
make install

That's the standard procedure for most software.

If you're just looking for a ready-made RPM for Mandrake, someone else
on this list ought to be able to point you in the right direction.  (I
use Debian myself, so I wouldn't know.)


[0] http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~kuliniew/rhythmbox-applet/