README: HOW DO I INSTALL AND RUN ENTERTAINER?

Installing Entertainer from the development trunk:

All commands listed are meant to be executed without the backtick (`) characters. These instructions are based on installing in Ubuntu, but, aside from the dependencies, the instructions should work in other Linux distributions.

1. Get the code:
    `bzr branch lp:entertainer`

2. Enter the source directory:
    `cd entertainer`

3. Install all of Entertainer's dependencies. Look in the docs/DEPENDENCIES file for the list. Note: This list does not provide mp3 playback ability and assumes that you have already installed that (possibly through the gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly package or the ubuntu-restricted-extras package). Please observe your country's patent law. Mp3 decoding software may be protected by patents in your country (e.g., the United States), so it may not be legal to install the two packages that I just mentioned.

4. Set your content directories:
    `./entertainer-content-manager`

5. Start the backend:
    `./entertainer-backend`

6. Start the GUI:
    `./entertainer`

(At the time of this writing, the development trunk has broken paths which will prevent the content manager from opening. You can fix this by merge in code from Joshua Scotton by running `bzr merge lp:~joshuascotton/entertainer/working`. Hopefully this patch will be merged to the trunk soon and no longer be an issue.)

Installing Entertainer from the .1 release:

All commands listed are meant to be executed without the backtick (`) characters. These instructions are based on installing in Ubuntu, but, aside from the dependencies, the instructions should work in other Linux distributions.

1. Get the code:
    http://launchpad.net/entertainer/0.1/0.1/+download/entertainer-0.1.tar.gz

2. Install the dependencies. The list of dependencies is the same as the list in the docs/DEPENDENCIES file that I mentioned in the answer above. The same note about mp3 playback applies. Since the DEPENDENCIES file was out of date in the 0.1 release, I'll reproduce the correct file content below:

"""
To install all dependencies in Hardy:

sudo apt-get install python-gobject python-gtk2 python-gst0.10 python-clutter \
python-pysqlite2 python-cddb python-glade2 python-cairo python-feedparser \
python-pyinotify python-eyed3 python-pyvorbis python-imaging python-imdbpy \
python-notify
"""

3. Extract the code from the compressed file:
    `tar -xvzf entertainer-0.1.tar.gz`

4. Enter the source directory:
    `cd entertainer-0.1/src`

5. Set your content directories:
    `./entertainer-content-managment.py`

6. Start the backend:
    `./entertainer-backend.py`

7. Start the GUI:
    `./entertainer-frontend.py`

Hopefully this helps everyone out.

Matt Layman suggests this article as an answer to your question:
FAQ #153: “README: HOW DO I INSTALL AND RUN ENTERTAINER?”.