NOTE: What I've described previously gives you a bleeding edge, compiled-from-latest-git RPM.
If you want something that's not-so-bleeding-edge, you can try: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/UpdatedApps/openSUSE_11.4/KDE:UpdatedApps.repo Peter "Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length" -- Robert Frost On 22 March 2011 22:38, Peter C. Ndikuwera <pnd...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Thad, > > If you don't want to go through the whole troubleshooting exercise, you > could always try using a precompiled Amarok from one of openSUSE's > repositories: > > See here: > http://software.opensuse.org/search?q=amarok&baseproject=openSUSE%3A11.4&lang=en&exclude_debug=true > > According to this entry on the wiki: > http://en.opensuse.org/KDE_repositories#Updated_applications_only > > You would want this repository: > > > http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Unstable:/Playground/openSUSE_11.4/KDE:Unstable:Playground.repo > > Just click on this last link, add it to Yast and then upgrade amarok. You > should be good to go. > > Peter > > "Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length" > -- Robert Frost > > > On 22 March 2011 22:28, Thad Humphries <thad.humphr...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I recently upgraded from SuSE 11.3 to 11.4. That went well enough, so I >> thought I'd try building and installing Amarok 2.4.1 beta 1 ( >> http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/amarok/2011-March/032603.html). Most >> especially, I wanted to apply Daniel Faust's fix for various artists as the >> bug keeps me from using my iPod with Amarok ( >> http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/amarok/2011-February/032586.html). (I also >> dream that some day podcasts will install to my iPod, but for now gpodder >> handles that chore.) >> >> (BTW, the 2.4.1 beta 1 tarball download amarok-2.4.0.90.tar.bz2. I guess >> that's what I'm supposed to use.) >> >> I followed the build instructions (http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Compiling), >> modifying instructions (http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Compiling) before >> running make. After a few attempts and pauses to install optional packages >> and additional devel RPMs, the build completed and I ran install (as root). >> However when I try to run amarok I get the following error dialog: >> >> Amarok could not find any collection plugins. It is possible that Amarok >> is installed under the wrong prefix, please fix your installation using: >> $ cd /path/to/amarok/source-code/ >> $ su -c "make uninstall" >> $ cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config --prefix` && su -c "make >> install" >> $ kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental >> $ amarok >> More information can be found in the README file. For further assistance >> join us at #amarok on irc.freenode.net. >> >> Note that the compiling instructions ( >> http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Compiling) say nothing about running >> kbuildsycoca4. No matter, Amarok fails either way (kbuildsycoca4 shows many >> errors trying to read stuff in my old /opt/kde3 directory, but god knows if >> that can be safely removed). >> >> What gives? Any ideas on a fix? I really need the various artists fix. >> >> -- >> "Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscrib'd In one self-place; but where we >> are is hell, And where hell is, there must we ever be" --Christopher >> Marlowe, *Doctor Faustus* (v, 121-24) >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Amarok mailing list >> Amarok@kde.org >> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/amarok >> >> >
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