Ubuntu Users

I have created a PPA that will manage the installation of SopCast Player. The following commands show how to quickly add my ppa and key. For more detailed instructions go to my PPA homepage.

echo "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/jason-scheunemann/ppa/ubuntu `lsb_release -cs` main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list && sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys CD30EE56

Now that the repositories are installed issue the following commands to install sopcast-player:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install sopcast-player

In certain countries you may need to install the Medibuntu repositories to satisfy the VLC dependency requirement. Use the following command to install the version of Medibuntu relevant to your Ubuntu release:

sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/$(lsb_release -cs).list --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list && sudo apt-get -q update && sudo apt-get --yes -q --allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get -q update

Additional installation instructions can be found at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu.

Fedora Users

If you haven't installed the RPM Fusion repository you should do so before installing the SopCast Player RPM. Installation instruction can be found here. If you are running Fedora 8 or earlier this repository will not, at the time of this update, satisfy the version requirement. In that case this may be of some use.

Prior to installation you need to know which architecture your version of Fedora is, if you are unsure enter the following:

$ uname -m

You will also need to know which release of Fedora you are running, to accomplish this enter the following:

$ cat /etc/issue | grep Fedora

The installation order is as follows (ensuring you grab the RPMs that match your Fedora release and architecture):

1. sp-auth
2. sopcast-player

Note: Once you have installed the RPM Fusion repository all the dependencies will be automatically handled.

Where to get help

Please go to http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1032901 for Debian-based systems and http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=210351 for RPM-based systems to post any questions or concerns you may have about this program.

Opening Sop links from Firefox

I wanted to post a how-to on opening Sop links from within Firefox. I am working to include this operability within SopCast Player but I am having a heck of time sorting it all out. Until I am able to better server the user-base myself, I have included a set of instructions a user from Ubuntu Forums posted on how to manually enable this feature.

----------------Quoted from UbuntuForums----------------

When you make sure that Sopcast is functional, close it. Here's what I did to open sop:// protocol links automatically in Firefox:

1. In Firefox, in the Location bar, type about:config and press Enter.

2. Right-click anywhere in the grid, choose New, then String.

3. In the Enter the preference name prompt, type in network.protocol-handler.app.sop and press OK.

4. In the Enter string value prompt, type sopcast-player and press OK.

5. Try to open sop:// link on your favorite website and you will be presented with dialog box where you can search location of sopcast player. Navigate to ~/usr/bin and point to sopcast-player and click OK.

6. OK out of dialog box and now all sop:// links should open sopcast player automatically.

Please note that parts 5 and 6 were written from memory so some of the wording might be incorrect but it should be pretty intuitive.

Hope this helps, Iakov.