I'm are now porting MultiJuke to Linux (I using Ubuntu 7.04).
One of the main goal of MultiJuke is to get it ported to that OS, since many other software is rather mediaplayer or webbased player, which can't been controlled by pure arcade controllers or touch screen. Here I talking about Linux here, not Windows (there exists many good cab freidly jukebox software to Windows, but not Linux).
The main goal of MultiJuke is also a easy installation, which should only been require to unpack the archive and run it from a user folder (like /home/spacfractal or such). There might been some packages need to been installed, because MultiJuke is a OpenGL application, but I looking what it happens when I trying from it from various live distros (but I recommered Ubuntu 7.04). The only problem can been the graphicscard, which need to been OpenGL combatible to run MultiJuke and may require installation of some packages.
The behaiver of MultiJuke is pretty at same with Windows version with few features removed, due to some restrictions (but I hope I can work around them all or most). The code is the same with only few minor changes (example the sound engine is changing from bass to fmod, because bass do not exists to Linux).
I hope the release day is a week or 2 by now. Maybe it can been delayed, but hope not. I got most parts working now, but still missing sound (but I do have mp3 played with a test app). Today I got file scanning (File Mask) to work under Linux as well.....
[EDIT]
Rather to have 2 threads about it, I just edited this one:
I have just ported MultiJuke to Linux now and is now in beta which few features removed (see beta readme).
Please feedback anything about this version of Linux into this thread.
I got it to work on this distro, here is how to install MutlIjuke:
To install MultiJuke on Ubunty or Xubunty:
1. First Open the Terninmal.
2. Run this command:
sudo su
3. Insert your password (if you have any). Now you have root access, which is needed to install some packages.
4. Next CD navigate to your MultiJuke Folder like (ubuntu is your username):
cd /home/ubuntu/Desktop/MultiJuke
5. Run these commands, while you are as root user and have navigated to the MultiJuke folder):
cp libfmodex.so.4.06.23 /usr/lib/libfmodex.so.4.06.23
cp libfmodex.so /usr/lib/libfmodex.so
This got FMOD package installed on your system.
== Now MultiJuke should now run when double click on the filename ==
6. If Not, you might need to run this command, even not all packges might not been needed, but just make sure:
sudo apt-get install g++-3.3 libglu1-mesa-dev x11proto-core-dev x11proto-gl-dev x11proto-kb-dev libxxf86vm-dev libasound2-dev
NOTE: If OpenGL is not installed with the correct OpenGL drivers, MultiJuke can run painfully slow.