Linux setup instructions for Minitube
Please understand that the binaries provided are a “best effort”. The proper way to install Minitube on Linux is through packages built for your distribution.
Minitunes depends on the Qt framework. The binaries provided require Qt 4.6. Minitube can also be built for Qt 4.5, but you have to do it yourself.
On Ubuntu and other Debian derivatives you can install the dependencies with the following command:
sudo apt-get install libqt4-network phonon-backend-gstreamer gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad
No Video?
Should you have audio issues, you can try removing the Xine Phonon backend (if it’s installed):
sudo apt-get remove phonon-backend-xine
64bit?
Until packages for your distribution appear, you’ll have to build by yourself. Just follow the INSTALL information you’ll find in the sources download.
KDE
KDE users may want to use the Xine backend instead:
sudo apt-get install libqt4-network phonon-backend-xine xine-ffmpeg
Packages
Available packages may be outdated. Versions prior to 1.1 don’t work anymore.
Ubuntu and Debian have a minitube package. Gentoo has an official ebuild ready to be emerged. Also Slackware has an official build. ArchLinux users have their package too. OpenSUSE has user contributed RPMs
[...] Según comenta Flavio Tordini en su blog, por cambios en Youtube, se cargaron varias aplicaciones incluida Minitube. Es por ésto que ahora nos traen la versión 1.1, que trae mejoras visuales, corrección de errores y traducción al chino. Minitube, es un cliente de escritorio para ver videos de Youtube, con un modo sencillo de búsqueda.Tan sólo con escribir una palabra te dá las suguerencias que hay en Youtube para que elijas. DESCARGA DE BINARIOS 32bits Entra a la página de Instrucciones de configuración [...]
How long does it usually take for Ubuntu and Debian to update their package? I can’t figure out how to install from the binary.
This is what I done to install on ubuntu – Download the minitube.tar.gz to your Download folder. Go to Download folder, right click on the file and click on “Extract Here” ( this will create a folder called “minitube”
Next, Go to your Terminal and type in (with out speachmarks) “cd Downloads/minitube” then type “sudo ./minitube” That should be it. You can delete out both the file that you downloaded and the folder “minitube” Hope it works for you!
Thank you, JunglistG, that worked perfectly!
The above fox worked the first time but do I have to redo it everytime I want to run minitube? I cannot find an icon.
I even tried copying the minitube icon and a link to same into favorites. It still does not open. it does open from the desktop folder.
Please update the minitube package in your PPA for Ubuntu ! (https://launchpad.net/~neversfelde/+archive/ppa). Thank you for your great work !
I’ve followed every single step you guys have in the installation etc, nothing works.
if you guys are so great at making software how come a end user has to jump through a million hoops every short of writing the darn software to make it work? this is the kind of stuff why linux will never be worth using for 99% of users. software developers never simply make their stuff work and install correctly.
it’s always download this, sudo apt get this or that, add this repository this… it’s just a huge nightmare to get anything to work.
here’s the latest error from your awesome install
Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/user/ppa/ubuntu/dists/lucid/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found
Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
I’m on an older version of Ubuntu (9.04) and was getting a segmentation fault using the prebuilt binary. However, the source code compiled and ran perfectly with little effort. Just follow the instructions in the INSTALL file and you should be fine.
i have problem with debian squeeze
the contrast of videos is too strong :S anything i can do about it?
For those using Ubuntu, simply download and extract the file somewhere. Head to the directory you saved it to and open the folder.
Then:
- Right Click on the file called minitube inside the folder
- Click Properties
- Hit the permissions tab
- Put a tick on the box entitled ‘Allow executing file as program’
- Double click file to run Minitube any time you want to.
To add the program to your menu
- Click on System (top left) and then Preferences
- Click on Main Menu
- Click on where you want it to go (e.g. Sound and Video)
- Click New Item on the right
- Choose Application from the drop down menu
- Give it a name (minitube)
- Click Browse and navigate to the folder where you saved minitube to and select the file minitube inside the minitube folder
- To choose an icon click on the square box on the left and again navigate to the minitube folder, and open the data folder inside the minitube folder, and select the file minitube.svg
Bob’s your uncle, just select Minitube from the menu anytime you want to run it. You can also drag the icon from the menu to your desktop for easy access and then from the menu you can drag it to your panel.
Thank you for a great piece of software.
@ Randy:
We’re sorry that the process of copying and pasting a single line of text is proving too difficult for you. Perhaps you should pick up a copy of “Linux for Dumbasses.”
Thx conner… worked great!
Could you please update the minitube package in your PPA for Ubuntu
(https://launchpad.net/~neversfelde/+archive/ppa).
Great work, thanks !