Installing Songbird

Hi

Often times, items picked up outside of the repositories don't automatically add the program to the menu.

To manually add it to your menu do the following

First, you need to find out where the program is. It is probably in /usr/bin/Songbird, but you never know. Open a terminal window (Applications->Accessories->Terminal) and type in the following command to find where it put songbird

which Songbird

The system should respond with the path to the program. If it doesn't, you can search for it with this command. I recommend using sudo so that you don't see error messages about not having permissions for certain directories, but you don't have to use it. If you do use sudo, it will ask for your password, type it in and press enter even though you won't see anything while typing, it is ok.

sudo find / -mount -name Songbird -print

If neither of these work, try with a lowercase s

Once you have the path to the program, then you can add it to the menu. Click System->Preferences->Main Menu. Then click the Add button, and put Songbird (or whatever you want it to display as) in the Name box, and the path to the program in the command box, then click ok.

Hope this helps!

Thanks,
I found it at /songbird/Songbird and added to main program list.

It seems as the directory is /songbird tells me it is Windows based??
Why.. normally I have all new programs at /home/...as standard, why not this one?
I downloaded Songbird_0.7.0_linux-i686.tar.gz and unpacked.
Clicked on songbird icon (blue square) and all followed. Was this correct?
I could not open with standard install program.

Resolved