Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, Pithos is a client of the Pandora.com music, which service available in USA, Australia and New Zealand only. The latest version available is Pithos 1.0, which has been ported to GTK3, Pyhton 3 and GStreamer 1.0 and got some improvements, including: new icons, some UI improvements, a feature for displaying the song bitrate and bug-fixes.
In this article I will show you how to install the Pithos 1.0 Pandora client on Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Isis and Fedora 20.
Because it is available via PPA, installing Pithos 1.0 on the listed Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Elementary OS and Pinguy OS systems is easy. All you have to do is add the ppa to your system, update the local repository index and install the pithos package. Like this:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pithos/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install pithos
Optional, to remove pithos, do:
$ sudo apt-get remove pithos
For Fedora 20, Pithos 1.0 is available via the RPM Fusion Repository. To install it, just do:
$ sudo rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-20.noarch.rpm
$ sudo rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-20.noarch.rpm
$ sudo yum update
$ sudo yum install pithos
Optional, to remove pithos, do:
$ sudo yum remove pithos
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