Serpentine: Installation and Usage

Dependencies

Distributions that bundle Serpentine

If you are a lucky user from one of these distribution serpentine is already available for you and you can install it through your package manager:

Ubuntu (starting from Breezy)
Gentoo

Installing the from source

Like every other package in the good old GNU style:

tar zxf serpentine-<VERSION>.tar.gz
cd serpentine-<VERSION>
./configure
make
make install

Fedora Core 5 dependencies

In order to install serpentine from source on FC5 you need to install the following packages:

gnome-python2-totem
totem
gnome-python2-nautilus-cd-burner
pygtk2
gstreamer-python

Installing Muine Plugin

To install the Muine plugin you need mono (the runtime and the compiler) installed. The installation procedure is the same but you need to pass the --enabled-muine in the ./configure script, you also need to have Serpentine installed in the same prefix as Muine:

tar zxf serpentine-<VERSION>.tar.gz
cd serpentine-<VERSION>
./configure --enable-muine --prefix=/usr
make
make install

Usage

You can access Serpentine in the Applications/Audio & Vídeo menu entry. Or run it from the command line:

serpentine

You can also run it in safe mode (simulation writing):

serpentine --simulation
# or
serpentine -s

You can write files directly from command line, mixing playlists and files (as usual):

serpentine -w file1.mp3 file2.ogg file3.pls file4.wav

To show the preferences window and exit:

serpentine -p