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Here is an example of a tutorial Mark wrote to explain how to install "sipie" to be able to listen to Sirius music streams on a Ubuntu Linux computer.

Anyone who has ever tried listening to Sirius streamed over the internet on Ubuntu Linux has probably received a message that they are missing a plugin for the browser and thus not able to listen to any streams. One way to listen to Sirius over the web is by using July 2, 2007 Linux.

To install sipie, first make sure that mplayer is installed. If it is not, install it via Synaptic or from the command line with apt-get.

sudo apt-get install mplayer

Next install python-setuptools.

sudo apt-get install python-setuptools

Use python-setuptools easy_install to install BeatifulSoup.

sudo easy_install BeautifulSoup

For the last dependency, install wx for the GUI.

sudo apt-get install python-wxgtk2.6

Now download sipie from http://eli.criffield.net/sipie/sipie, make it executable, and copy it to a directory in your path.

sudo chmod a+x sipie
sudo cp sipie /usr/bin

To run, type “sipie” at the command line and enter your username, password, guest or subscriber, and the text in the captcha. The first time I ran sipie I received the error message ‘IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: ‘/home/mark/.sipie/history’, but I launched the program again and it ran fine. Because I didn’t want to run sipie from the command line I created a launcher and used this icon.

This page was last updated on July 2, 2007 .