Installing Musique on Linux

Please understand that the binaries provided are a “best effort”. The proper way to install Musique on Linux is through packages built for your distribution.

Just unzip what you have downloaded and run musique. You’ll have to create a launcher by yourself. Icons for the launcher can be found inside the data directory. The 256×256 icon should be ok for most people. Also make sure you install the needed dependencies.

Dependencies

Musique depends on the Qt framework, Sqlite and Taglib. The binaries provided require Qt 4.6. Musique 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 libqtgui4 libqt4-xml libqt4-network libqt4-dbus libqt4-sql-sqlite libtag1c2a phonon-backend-gstreamer gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad

Playback issues

Should you experience playback issues, you can try removing the Xine Phonon backend:

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.