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My friend’s ZeroXR and schpenke recommended a nice application called Tunapie when I queried for a suitable application to watch Internet TV and Radio via Shoutcast streams.

Version 1.3 is available for install via the Ubuntu repositories using

sudo apt-get install tunapie

I suggest installing it first, and then upgrading to v2.0

To do that, download the tarball from SourceForge and then extract it.

From the shell’s prompt in the downloaded folder, issue the following commands to finish the upgrade:

sudo sh install.sh --adult
sudo cp tunapie /usr/bin/tunapie


You’ll then find it in the Multimedia folder on your menu.

I recently switched routers for improved wireless performance. I was disappointed to find out that my new one didn’t have a No-IP client. I set out to install their official Linux client, and it was quite easy. The following steps are what I used to compile the latest version from source. This tutorial assumes you already have an established no-ip account and host name.

Change to your home directory

cd ~

Make a new folder for the download

mkdir no-ip-dl

Change to the new folder.

cd no-ip-dl

Download the latest compressed tarball

wget http://www.no-ip.com/client/linux/noip-duc-linux.tar.gz

Extract the tarball

tar xzf no-ip-duc-linux.tar.gz

Change to the proper folder

cd no-ip-2.1.4

Compile the binaries and install the executables.

sudo make install

This will prompt you to answer the necessary details for configuration, like your email address, password, desired interface, etc.

Then launch the application by:

sudo /usr/local/bin/noip2