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Now Banshee 1.0 Beta 2 is released. If you want to try the music player in your ubuntu hardy box, you could add sources.list entry from banshee PPA team.

Open software sources (System > Administration > Software Sources). In Third-Party Software tab, click Add and paste the code below

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deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/banshee-team/ubuntu hardy main

If you need the source, you could repeat the Add proccess, and paste this

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deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/banshee-team/ubuntu hardy main

Close the Software Sources. Wait for a few moment while the software update your package database. Then open the terminal, and type

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sudo apt-get install banshee-1

Yes, use banshee-1. If you use banshee, you’ll get the old Banshee 0.13.2 from universe repository.

And, enjoy your new Banshee

There is a great script created to check whether your system is compiz ready or not. It’s called Compiz-Check.

Gathering information about your system...

 Distribution:          Ubuntu 8.04
 Desktop environment:   GNOME
 Graphics chip:         nVidia Corporation G70 [GeForce 7300 GT] (rev a1)
 Driver in use:         nvidia
 Rendering method:      Nvidia

Checking if it's possible to run Compiz on your system...

 Checking for texture_from_pixmap...               [ OK ]
 Checking for non power of two support...          [ OK ]
 Checking for composite extension...               [ OK ]
 Checking for FBConfig...                          [ OK ]

Checking for hardware/setup problems...            [ OK ]

If you got [ OK ] in every check, like mine, then your system is ready to run compiz. If something fails, go check the forum

While you’re thinking by installing 64 bit linux you’re standing in the edge of new technology era, it sucks knowing our 64 bit system is less supported than the old 32 bit system. We have to install 32 bit flash since Adobe didn’t have the 64 bit one. We have to install 32 bit oracle xe since Oracle also didn’t have 64 bit version.

And now I will try explain how to install oracle xe into the 64 bit system, ubuntu way. Of course we couldn’t follow the guide from oracle, since apt-get will detect our system architecture and we won’t get the 32 bit packages list.

Before we start, make sure you have the 32 bit library installed. It’s in reposity, all you have to do is

sudo apt-get install libc6-i386

The next thing to do is download the files needed. It’s libaio_0.3.104-1_i386.deb and oracle-xe-universal_10.2.0.1-1.1_i386.deb. You could use wget for this

wget -c http://oss.oracle.com/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/libaio_0.3.104-1_i386.deb http://oss.oracle.com/debian/dists/unstable/non-free/binary-i386/oracle-xe-universal_10.2.0.1-1.1_i386.deb.

After your downloads are finished, we continue to the main issue, forcing the package to be installed. You could try to install with usual dpkg -i first to make sure your system is really 64 bit.

sudo dpkg -i libaio_0.3.104-1_i386.deb

You’ll get error,

dpkg: error processing libaio_0.3.104-1_i386.deb (--install):
package architecture (i386) does not match system (amd64)
Errors were encountered while processing:
libaio_0.3.104-1_i386.deb

Added guide from Venka A