Re: [Banshee-List] Banshee 1.2 and musictracker

[Sandy Armstrong <sanfordarmstrong gmail com>]

Andrew Conkling wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 5:09 AM, Sain <sain net hr 
> <mailto:sain net hr>> wrote:
>
>     I've installed Musictracker plugin for Pidgin, but it doesn't seem
>     to work.
>     It always sets the status to "Banshee is OFF". Well it's not.
>
>     I figured it might be the fact that i installed Banshee 1.2, which is
>     banshee-1 package, rather than banshee package from the Ubuntu repos.
>
>
> I'm not sure if that's it or not; I had thought that Musictracker used 
> the DBus interface to communicate with Banshee.

It does, but the dbus interface changed drastically since 0.13.x.  You 
can follow these issues in musictracker's google code issue tracker:

http://code.google.com/p/musictracker/issues/detail?id=87
http://code.google.com/p/musictracker/issues/detail?id=127

>     Is there a way to fix this? To "make" banshee-1 ==> banshee or
>     something?
>
>
> Regardless, you can do what you suggest with something like `sudo ln 
> -s /usr/bin/banshee-1 /usr/local/bin/banshee`.

Do not do this!  It will not fix your problem.

Sandy