If your Linux distribution provides a package of GSSMP, you should generally use that, but if not, you should be able to use the binary package for your distro provided here, or failing that, the generic binary tarball.
You will need the GNOME and gstreamer libraries installed, and you will need gstreamer plugins for the music file formats you want GSSMP to play.
On most systems with GNOME, everything you need will be installed. If you have problems, check out the Prerequisites page.
If you can't play back MP3s (and want to), read the MP3 playback page.
If you use Ubuntu, download the .deb (i386 if your computer is 32-bit, amd64 if it's 64-bit) file from the binary download page, cd into the directory where you downloaded it, and install it like so:
sudo dpkg --install gssmp-*.deb
You can now run GSSMP from the Audio menu, or by typing:
gssmp
If you use Debian or another Debian-derived distro, the Ubuntu deb file might work for you. If it doesn't please get in touch on the developers' mailing list and help us work out how to fix it!
Also, please get in touch if it does work, so we can update these instructions.
If you use Fedora, download the .rpm file from the binary download page, cd into the directory where you downloaded it, and install it like so:
su -c rpm --install gssmp-*.rpm
You can now run GSSMP from the Audio menu, or by typing:
gssmp
If you use a different distribution that is RPM-based, the Fedora RPM might work for you. If it doesn't please get in touch on the developers' mailing list and help us work out how to fix it!
Also, please get in touch if it does work, so we can update these instructions.
Most distributions should work fine with the binary tarball (see below). Just make sure you've installed the prerequisites as explained at the top of this page.
Please let us know if you get GSSMP working on your distro - we'd love to explain how to do it here.
We'd also like to hear from people willing to package GSSMP for their distro.
If you are using a different distribution, or have trouble with the instructions above, try using the binary tarball.
Download the .tar.bz2 file from the binary download page and untar and run it like so:
tar -xjf gssmp-*-bin.tar.bz2
cd gssmp-*-bin
cd bin
./gssmp
If something goes wrong, email the mailing list (see the Contact page) and we'll try to help.
To use GSSMP on a non-Linux operating system you will need to do some investigation - at the very least you will need to compile the program from source (see the Developers page for details), and you may need to port other GNOME components to the system too.
If you do manage to get GSSMP to work on your operating system, please do get in touch with us - we'd love to have easy-to-install packages for as many systems as possible.
last.fm is a web site that collects statistics about the music you and others are playing and recommends music you might be interested in. If you want to get GSSMP to submit information about what tracks you are playing, you will need to install lastfmsubmitd, which is presently not as easy as it should be.