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THERE IS A NEW LINUX AREA ON SLINGCOMMUNITY WITH UPDATED INFORMATION HERE

Author: Andrew Butkus
Date: 28 December 2006
Contact: andrew [at] butkus.co.uk

Here are a list of system constraints that I used to get SlingPlayer to work:

What is needed:

ACER Aspire 1501lmi Laptop

• ATI Radeon 9600 Mobility
• 2GB of RAM
• AMD64bit processor 3000+

Ubuntu Edgy Eft 6.10 (32bit version) (http://www.ubuntu.com/)
Wine 0.9.22 / Wine 0.9.26 (http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/archive/index.html)
Slingplayer (UK Version) 1.3.0.127 (http://www.slingmedia.com/)
Windows Media Player 9 (hosted on http://www.slingcommunity.com)
Various Windows Components (provided by http://www.dll-files.com/ hosted on http://www.slingcommunity.com)
ATI Linux Mobility driver for ATI Radeon 9600 Mobility
(http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html

Introduction:

This is a tutorial on how to get SlingPlayer to work with Wine, not how to install and use Linux. I'm assuming that the users of this tutorial will already have a good understanding of how Linux (the Ubuntu distribution in particular) works, and has all the necessary hardware (such as network, wireless, and graphics cards) installed and working. With this in mind, I'm providing detailed installation information on how I got SlingPlayer to work with Ubuntu. This might not work 100% for everyone.

Acquaintance

For this tutorial we are going to be taking advantage of the Ubuntu Synaptic Package Manager. It can be found under System > Adminstration > Synaptic Package Manager. The Ubuntu package manager is a piece of software that manages what software is installed on your Ubuntu system. For most new users this will be used a lot, as the software included in the package manager is very easy to install. All that's required is to search, right click, install and apply. There are other ways to install software on Ubuntu, but for this tutorial it isn't necessary to explain it since there is a good maintained packages for the Ubuntu Distribution.

We are only going to be using this twice in the tutorial to check if software is installed. Everything else will be done via the *.deb to install the necessary software packages..