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I proudly say that I always prefer using Ubuntu. I use Ubuntu 95% of the time for my personal work but in office I am a Windows XP user. Can’t help it there.
I used to use Songbird 0.5 earlier with Ubuntu 7.10 but when I upgraded to Ubuntu 8.04 I somehow forgot to install it. May be I was too busy blogging so didn’t get time for music.
Today I downloaded Songbird 0.6 and tried to install it. Somehow I forgot how I installed it before. I searched for solution but couldn’t find any.
After a little logic I was able to install it. So here is what I did, may be it will help someone trying to install this excellent new music player for Linux specifically Ubuntu:

• Download Songbird 0.6 preferably on your desktop
• The file name is : Songbird_0.6_linux-i686.tar.gz
• Right click this file and extract everything using ‘Extract here‘ on desktop.
• This gives you a folder called ‘Songbird‘.
• Copy this folder to your Home folder or wherever you want.
• Right click somewhere on desktop and create a launcher. That’s it.
• Double click on this launcher to run Songbird.
• Follow on screen prompts for the first time to fully install it on your system.
• Steps are same no matter which Songbird revision you download.

For your information, Songbird is a platform independent application which works on Windows, Mac and Linux. You can get it right now…

Update 1# If you are having difficulty installing Songbird on Ubuntu 9.04, then ‘Completely remove’ libvisual-0.4-plugins. Then try following the above method.

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