You can get the package by adding

deb http://blog.blackdown.de/static/debian/rhythmbox/ karmic main
deb-src http://blog.blackdown.de/static/debian/rhythmbox/ karmic main

to /etc/apt/sources.list.
After adding those lines, do:

$ sudo aptitude update
$ sudo aptitude install rhythmbox

The repositories are signed with my GPG key which can be imported into your apt keyring with

$ wget http://blog.blackdown.de/static/gpg.asc -O - | \
    sudo apt-key add -

Please remember to disable the old Last.fm plug-in before enabling mine (New Style Last.fm Scrobbler). Also please note that my plug-in requires the lastfm client to work correctly.

Read more about the plugin and get the source code at Last.fm for Rhythmbox – New Style.

You can get the package by adding

deb http://blog.blackdown.de/static/debian/rhythmbox/ jaunty main
deb-src http://blog.blackdown.de/static/debian/rhythmbox/ jaunty main

to /etc/apt/sources.list.
After adding those lines, do:

$ sudo aptitude update
$ sudo aptitude install rhythmbox

The repositories are signed with my GPG key which can be imported into your apt keyring with

$ wget http://blog.blackdown.de/static/gpg.asc -O - | \
    sudo apt-key add -

Please remember to disable the old Last.fm plug-in before enabling mine (New Style Last.fm Scrobbler). Also please note that my plug-in requires the lastfm client to work correctly.

Read more about the plugin and get the source code at Last.fm for Rhythmbox – New Style.

Ubuntu Hardy user can get the package by adding

deb http://blog.blackdown.de/static/debian/rhythmbox/ hardy main
deb-src http://blog.blackdown.de/static/debian/rhythmbox/ hardy main

to /etc/apt/sources.list. Ubuntu Intrepid users should use

deb http://blog.blackdown.de/static/debian/rhythmbox/ intrepid main
deb-src http://blog.blackdown.de/static/debian/rhythmbox/ intrepid main

instead.
After adding those lines, you can install the package with:

$ aptitude update
$ aptitude install rhythmbox

The repositories are signed with my GPG key which can be imported into your apt keyring with

$ wget http://blog.blackdown.de/static/gpg.asc -O - | \
    sudo apt-key add -

Please remember to disable the old Last.fm plug-in before enabling mine (New Style Last.fm Scrobbler). Also please note that my plug-in requires the lastfm client to work correctly.

Read more about the plugin and get the source code at Last.fm for Rhythmbox – New Style.

• 040-decorator.patch
  This patch implements metacity-like raising and lowering of windows by pressing the left or middle mouse button on a window’s decoration. Useful if you don’t use raise-on-click or auto-raise.
  References: Ubuntu bug, OpenCompositing bug
• 041-shadow_offset.patch
  This patches makes the shadow x/y offset settings work, they had no effect up to now. The patch also pushes the upper limit for the shadow radius to 48.0 because that is what the decorator can handle.
  References: Ubuntu bug, OpenCompositing bug
• 042-smart_placement.patch
  This patch fixes the client size calculation for smart window placement. Without this fix smart placement insists on keeping about 17 pixels of free space on the right viewport edge.
  References: Ubuntu bug, OpenCompositing bug

All patches are for Ubuntu’s current compiz packages for Hardy Heron.

As for my original plan, I will post the Compiz article on the weekend!

You can get it by adding

deb http://blog.blackdown.de/static/debian/rhythmbox/ feisty main
deb-src http://blog.blackdown.de/static/debian/rhythmbox/ feisty main

to /etc/apt/sources.list. If you are using Ubuntu Gutsy, just replace feisty with gutsy in these two lines.
Then upgrade/install rhythmbox:

$ aptitude update
$ aptitude install rhythmbox

The repository is signed with my GPG key. The key can be imported into your apt keyring with

$ wget http://blog.blackdown.de/static/gpg.asc -O - | \
    sudo apt-key add -

If you are going to use the Last.fm integration of Rhythmbox, make sure you only enable one of the two plug-ins! If you want to use the new-style plug-in, you need the lastfm client. The latest beta package for Ubuntu is available on the Last.fm beta forum.

• Start the last.fm client in the system tray
• Try to start last.fm (beta client) before lastfm (stable client)
• Reduce bogus RESUME/PAUSE commands
• Miscellaneous small bug fixes

Read more about the plugin and get the source code or an Ubuntu package at Last.fm for Rhythmbox – New Style.

If the Rhythmbox developers are interested, I’ll start to merge this new plug-in with the old one that is bundled with Rhythmbox.

I have written a new last.fm plug-in for Rhythmbox today. Instead of scrobbling directly like the old one, it submits tracks via the lastfm client application. The client displays additional information about the currently playing song and you can love and tag the song with it.

The source code is available as a patch against Rhythmbox 0.12.8: scrobbler-v3m.patch
You can apply this patch with:

patch -NEp1 < ~/scrobbler-v3m.patch

Ubuntu Lucid Lynx users can get precompiled packages from my APT repositories. Add

deb http://blog.blackdown.de/static/debian/rhythmbox/ lucid main
deb-src http://blog.blackdown.de/static/debian/rhythmbox/ lucid main

to /etc/apt/sources.list. (Karmic users replace lucid with karmic in these two lines to get rhythmbox-0.12.6 with my plug-in)
Then install or upgrade rhythmbox:

$ aptitude update
$ aptitude install rhythmbox

The repository is signed with my GPG key. The key can be imported into your apt keyring with

wget http://blog.blackdown.de/static/gpg.asc -O - | \
    sudo apt-key add -

To enable the new plug-in go to Edit » Plugins. Disable the “Last.fm” plug-in and enable the “New Style Last.fm Scrobbler”.
If you enable this scrobbler plug-in, you have to disable the old Last.fm plug-in! Otherwise you will have two plug-ins which will both submit to last.fm at the same time. Only use one at a time!

Note that this first version of the plug-in does not start the lastfm client automatically! It will scrobble only if you start the client manually. I will fix this in the next version.

Feedback, postive as well as negative, is very welcome. If you want to report a bug, please include the output of “rhythmbox -D rb-scrobbler-plugin” and the tags of the song you wanted to scrobble.
If you want to report a crash, providing a gdb backtrace would be nice.

You might also want to take a look at this thread on the last.fm development forum.

May 20th, 2007: v2 of the plug-in is available now. lastfm gets launched automatically now.
May 22nd, 2007: v3 is available. The patch and the Ubuntu package have been updated: Changes since v2
May 25th, 2007: v3a: Updated patch and deb for the new Ubuntu Gutsy version of Rhythmbox.
May 29th, 2007: v3b: Updated patch and deb for the new Rhythmbox release.
May 31st, 2007: Updated patch Ubuntu package.
June 1st, 2007: Added APT repositories for Ubuntu Feisty and Gutsy.
June 28th, 2007: v3c: Updated patch and debs for the new Rhythmbox release.
August 16th, 2007: v3d: Updated patch and debs for Rhythmbox 0.11.2.
November 14th, 2007: v3e: Updated patch and debs for Rhythmbox 0.11.3. Add Hardy repository.
November 30th, 2007:Updated gusty and hardy builds. Include fixed Croatian po file from Franko Burolo.
February 7th, 2008: v3f: Updated patch and debs for Rhythmbox 0.11.4. (Thanks to Iain Buchanan for notifying me of the missing patch!)
May 31st, 2008: v3g: Updated patch to apply cleanly to Rhythmbox 0.11.5. (The debs for hardy have been at 0.11.5 for quite a while).
October 15st, 2008: v3h: Updated patch to apply cleanly to Rhythmbox 0.11.6. Ubuntu packages are available for i386, amd64, and lpia now.
October 20st, 2008: v3i: Updated patch to apply cleanly to the real Rhythmbox 0.11.6 release. v3h was for a later version from SVN.
April 24th, 2009 v3j: Update patch to apply cleanly to Rhythmbox 0.12.0. Provide debs for Ubuntu Jaunty.
November 4th, 2009 v3k: Update patch to apply cleanly to Rhythmbox 0.12.5 and provide debs for Ubuntu Karmic.
November 29th, 2009 v3l: Update patch to apply cleanly to Rhythmbox 0.12.6 and provide debs for Ubuntu Lucid too.
April 25th, 2010 v3m: Update patch to apply cleanly to Rhythmbox 0.12.8. Provide debs for Ubuntu Lucid.
Jun 3rd, 2010 v3n: Update patch to apply cleanly to Rhythmbox 0.12.8git20100602. Provide debs for Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat 10.10.
Jun 13th, 2010 v3o: Update patch to apply cleanly to Rhythmbox 0.12.8git20100611. Updated debs for Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat 10.10.

• Prepare the chroot directory. It’s recommended to use an extra partition/filesystem for it. I will use /srv/mysql (which is an LVM2 partition with an ext3 filesystem on my system) for the rest of the text.
• Stop MySQL:

  /etc/init.d/mysql stop

• Copy the databases to new location:

  mkdir -p /srv/mysql/var/lib
  cp -a /var/lib/mysql /srv/mysql/var/lib

• Copy this script to /etc/default/mysql-chroot
• Edit /etc/init.d/mysql:
  • Source the mysql-chroot script somewhere at the top:

    …
    test -x /usr/sbin/mysqld || exit 0
    
    . /etc/default/mysql-chroot
    
    SELF=$(cd $(dirname $0); pwd -P)/$(basename $0)
    …

  • Fix the disk space check:

    …
    # check for diskspace shortage
    datadir=`mysqld_get_param datadir`
    if LC_ALL=C BLOCKSIZE= df --portability $CHROOT_DIR$datadir/. | tail -n 1 | awk '{ exit ($4>4096) }'; then
      log_failure_msg "$0: ERROR: The partition with $datadir is too full!"
    …

  • Run setup_chroot right in the start section:

    …
    if mysqld_status check_alive nowarn; then
      echo "...already running."
    else
      setup_chroot
      /usr/bin/mysqld_safe > /dev/null 2>&1 &
    …

  • Somehow /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid disappears after each start. We have to create it each time, otherwise the stop command won’t work properly:

    …
    if mysqld_status check_alive warn; then
      log_end_msg 0
      ln -sf $CHROOT_DIR/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid \
                     /var/run/mysqld
      # Now start mysqlcheck or whatever the admin wants.
      output=$(/etc/mysql/debian-start)
    …

• In /etc/mysql/debian.cnf, change the two socket lines to:

  socket = /srv/mysql/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock

• In /etc/mysql/my.cnf:
  • Change the socket line in the [client] section to:

    socket = /srv/mysql/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock

    Don’t change the socket lines in the other sections!

  • Add

    chroot = /srv/mysql

    to the [mysqld] section.

• Prepend /srv/mysql to the log files listed in /etc/logrotate.d/mysql-server
• Make /usr/bin/mysql_upgrade_shell use the chrooted socket. Note: Currently these changes must be made each time mysql gets upgraded because upgrades override this file!

  …
  --password=*) password=`echo "$arg" | sed -e 's/^[^=]*=//'` ;;
  --socket=*) socket=`echo "$arg" | sed -e 's/^[^=]*=//'` ;;
  --ldata=*|--data=*|--datadir=*) DATADIR=`echo "$arg" | sed -e 's/^[^=]*=//'` ;;
  …
  fi
  $bindir/mysql_fix_privilege_tables --silent --user=$user --password=$password --socket=$socket $args
  exit 0
  …
  check_args="--check-upgrade --all-databases --auto-repair --user=$user --password=$password --socket=$socket"
  …
  $bindir/mysql_fix_privilege_tables --silent --user=$user --password=$password --socket=$socket $args
  …

• Start MySQL:

  /etc/init.d/mysql start

• Check /var/log/syslog for errors ;-)

As a result of this move, there are now packages of Sun’s Java for Debian and Ubuntu.
The packaging code is largely based on the code we are using for Blackdown Java for some years. The code is available under the MIT license from the jdk-distros project on java.net. (More info on Tom Marble’s blog.)

I’m glad Sun finally opens Java up a bit after years of restrictive licensing.

deb ftp://ftp.tux.org/java/debian/ sarge non-free

to your /etc/apt/sources.list.

Upgrading is recommended as 1.4.2-02 contains an important security fix.