It's not that bad. No Gnome depends. Do sudo dpkg -i /path/to/exaile.deb then sudo aptitude fix exaile and you are good to go.
-Josh On 12/16/06, Ronnie Whisler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Exaile! looks nice but holy dependencies...... On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 12:46:06 -0500 Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey folks, > > On Sat, 2006-16-12 at 10:37 -0700, Joshua Gardner wrote: > > There's also Exaile!, which isn't in the repositories but there are > > Ubuntu .deb packages available on there website. (I don't have a > > link right now. If I did I would give it to you. A couple seconds on > > google.com/linux found it for me.) Exaile! is a GTK application > > similar to AmaroK. It's lightweight in RAM and required libraries. > > Try it out. > > > > -Josh > > > > On 12/16/06, Ronnie Whisler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Use gmusicbrowser for you audio library playback program... > > its very > > like and handles large libraries easily and very fast.. > > > > > > > > On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 12:58:29 -0400 > > "Cody Somerville" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > A few tips/ideas for improving performance: > > > > > > 1. You might want to look for an alternative to Amarok > > > as > > it is > > > very heavy and requires kde libs. > > this is definitely the main concern for my plan -- I agree it's very > heavy. however I haven't found anything else that's as user-friendly. > two concerns here: > > 1 -- I need to make this absolutely foolproof or my family will just > get annoyed with me for futzing with a coputer. myhtv has worked > great here; edubuntu on the other hand just languishes. I want to be > sure spouse & kids can use this in a very intuitive way. > 2 -- I am also buying an ipod (hence option 5 below doesn't work so > well for me!). It's important to me that the ipod also works > unproblematically. anyway I haven't got the ipod yet so I will > experiment with exaile as soon as it gets here. will also check out > gmusicbrowser-- that's one I hadn't heard of > > > > > 2. If you aren't going to be using the desktop (ie. > > > icons > > on the > > > desktop), you could disable xfdesktop. > > > 3. Try changing your theme to a more light-load theme > > > (if applicable). 4. If you have kde and gnome services > > > enabled > > at boot > > > time, it will add a lot of wait time. > > > 5. Get a faster computer? > > > 6. I found 6.06 (Dapper) a bit faster then 6.10 (Edgy) > > but I can't > > > say for sure. > > just went through a fair amount of hassle installing edgy, think I'll > stay with that for now. > > > 7. Ensure the xfce4 compositor is disabled (most likely > > is if you > > > didn't enable it) > > > 8. Remove any unnecessary panels or panel > > > plugins/launchers/objects/etc. > > > > > will do > > > Hope that helps, > > > > > thanks! > matt > > -- BidTurf Auctions http://www.BidTurf.com -- xubuntu-devel mailing list xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel
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