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	Phil's Blogservations Sunday, August 31, 2008 Posted by philgomes 9:59 PM Minor Linux Victory: Getting Amazon MP3 Client To Work in Kubuntu "Hardy Heron" 8.04 Minor Linux Victory: Getting Amazon MP3 Client To Work in Kubuntu "Hardy Heron" 8.04 Hey... Gotta take these victories where I can get 'em, right? I'd been having problems getting the GDebi package installer to install AmazonMP3's download client for Ubuntu Linux. Doesn't sound like much, but it's the only way you can take advantage of the whole-album discounts that AmazonMP3 offers. Otherwise, you have to buy the tracks individually. The package has some dependencies, which the software helpfully tells you. However, it leads you to believe that the dependencies would be satisfied by the installation process. Wrong. So, I went to the command line using "dpkg -i". Proof-positive that, no, the dependencies weren't installed and, therefore, the installation would break before completion. Command-line access is absolutely necessary in these situations, I've found. Fortunately, all of the necessary packages upon which the Amazon client depends are in the repositories. Installation via Adept fixed that. I then double-clicked on the installation package that Amazon supplied. Still no joy — the software wasn't appearing in my "Start > Internet" menu. Back to the command line: "sudo dpkg -i amazonmp3.deb" later and... This was probably the longest impulse buy I've ever experienced but, now, I now have Pantera's greatest hits. Fortunately for my wife, I have headphones. If you don't care about Linux, this probably went over your head. If you care a lot, you might find my solution mind-numbingly inane. In any case, a Google search for the problem I was having showed that plenty of people had the issue I was experiencing, but few published an answer. So, here's mine. And, in a humble sense, this goes back to my "giving back" discussion as related to open-source. Perhaps more to come. Technorati Tags: linux, kubuntu, amazonmp3 | HOME | OBSESSIONS | FAQ | HEROES | CAREER | BLOG | CONTACT Note that the views expressed on this site do not necessarily reflect those of Phil's employer, its business partners, its clients, or anyone or anything that doesn't come from Phil's demented imagination. Hell, to be perfectly honest, even Phil disagrees with what he thinks sometimes. This site has virtually no redeeming qualities whatsoever. Clicking on a link doesn't automatically send a 1/2-cent donation to UNICEF. You can't buy, sell, auction, swap, find a date, win friends, influence people, cross the chasm, or decode the human genome using this site. You won't get free email. You won't win a free video game console. This site will not end world hunger, foster peace in the Middle East, help you smell better, teach you how to swing dance, or move the global economy from petroleum to hydrogen fuels. You'll learn a lot about this site's master, though, which amounts to a haphazard collection of strange and useless facts that pretty much won't help you at all.	ABOUT THIS BLOG This is the blog of Phil Gomes, SVP with Edelman Digital and senior advisor to the Society for New Communications Research. This blog not only discusses PR and media matters, but Phil's everyday observations about a variety of topics. Phil currently resides in Chicago, IL. EMAIL phil[at] philgomes.com View my page on PROpenMic SYNDICATE Feedburner ARCHIVE YAHOO! IM SKYPE WISH LIST PITCH POLICY MY PHOTOS www.flickr.com Photostream RSS Enter your Email Powered by FeedBlitz COMMENT AND TRACKBACK POLICY Comments and trackbacks are unmoderated, though I will delete the patently offensive ones. Any comments and trackbacks are the opinions of the individual writer of those comments and trackbacks, and not those of Phil Gomes, his employer, its clients, or its business partners. If you have a bone to pick, bug the people who wrote the comment or trackback.