rhythmbox-client is missing

Bug #875064 reported by Jean-Philippe Guérard
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
rhythmbox (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
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Bug Description

The rhythmbox-client has a man page, but is not in the rhythmbox package.

$ dpkg -L rhythmbox | grep rhythmbox-client
/usr/share/man/man1/rhythmbox-client.1.gz

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: rhythmbox 2.90.1~20110908-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic-pae 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Oct 15 16:37:24 2011
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110426.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=fr_FR:fr_CA:fr_CH:en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 LC_MESSAGES=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: rhythmbox
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-15 (0 days ago)

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Jean-Philippe Guérard (fevrier) wrote :
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report, that is fixed in upstream git:
http://git.gnome.org/browse/rhythmbox/commit/?id=5ec27a0dece6eb6d7e4d77da4f02f393bbe5c47f

Changed in rhythmbox (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Fix Committed
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obadz (obadz) wrote :

Not sure when we'll see the fixed package come out in oneiric but until then, one solution is to pin rhythmbox back to the natty version:

To do so, create the file /etc/apt/preferences.d/rhythmbox-pin containing:

Package: rhythmbox
Pin: release n=natty
Pin-Priority: 1001

Then copy /etc/apt/sources.list to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sources-natty.list replacing all occurrences of 'oneiric' by 'natty'

Finally,

sudo apt-get update # if there are errors, comment out the appropriate lines in sources-natty.list
sudo apt-get --purge remove rhythmbox
sudo apt-get --purge autoremove
sudo apt-get install rhythmbox

Enjoy.

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Tomasz Rzepecki (nub) wrote :

I did what obadz suggested, and it solved the problem, however, because of this I can't install rhythmbox-plugins -- the oneiric version doesn't agree with rhythmbox, while the natty version apparently conflicts with vlc.
On a sidenote, rhythmbox doesn't appear anywhere in notification area in lxde desktop (not even the natty rhythmbox), which it did in natty. Is that related to bug #724369 ?

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Rhythmbox-Client was removed [1] during March and then re enabled and ported to DBus+Mpris [2], sadly that code is not on the Oneiric package and since it's almost a new feature (whole re write) i don't think we can SRU that, however the feature is going to be there on the new Package in Precise.

1- http://git.gnome.org/browse/rhythmbox/commit/?id=9d4e5bcf1e969caa2f9848340ec610792c6a29d1
2- http://git.gnome.org/browse/rhythmbox/commit/?id=5ec27a0dece6eb6d7e4d77da4f02f393bbe5c47f

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obadz (obadz) wrote :

Thanks Pedro.

I've just tried the rhythmbox package that's currently in precise. It doesn't seem to have rhythmbox-client in it yet. Do you know when it will be there?

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Daniel Letzeisen (dtl131) wrote :

As of this comment, the version currently in precise is the same one in oneiric. You can keep checking here for updated versions: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rhythmbox

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package rhythmbox - 2.90.1~20111126.89c872b0-0ubuntu1

---------------
rhythmbox (2.90.1~20111126.89c872b0-0ubuntu1) precise; urgency=low

  * Upload the new version to Ubuntu, should solve those issues:
    - the lack of rhythmbox-client command (lp: #875064)
    - the music sharing preferences dialog (lp: #894153)
    - several segfaults (lp: #859195, #814614)
  * debian/control.in:
    - let the rhythmbox gir depends on gir1.2-peas-1.0 (lp: #874973)

  [ Rico Tzschichholz ]
  * New upstream git snapshot
 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Mon, 05 Dec 2011 19:31:23 +0100

Changed in rhythmbox (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Rafael SDM Sierra (rafaeljsg14) wrote :

If you are here looking for some way to control Rhythmbox via console, you can create alias or run the following commands:

dbus-send --type=method_call --dest=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.rhythmbox /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.Next # Next track
dbus-send --type=method_call --dest=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.rhythmbox /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.Previous # Previous track
dbus-send --type=method_call --dest=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.rhythmbox /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.PlayPause # Play/Pause
dbus-send --type=method_call --dest=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.rhythmbox /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.Stop # Stop

From here: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Multimedia_Keys#Rhythmbox

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Tomasz Rzepecki (nub) wrote :

Thanks a lot Rafael, your suggestion solved my problem. :)
Specifically, I needed those to set up keyboard shortcuts in lubuntu. They work just fine.

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