Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Installing Amarok 2 Beta/RC on Fedora 9


Installing Amarok 2 Beta/RC is pretty straight forward except that the steps on the Amarok wiki are incomplete.

First you need to install cmake


# yum install cmake


After that, try compiling with


# cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config --prefix` -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=debugfull



On a typical Fedora 9 setup, you'd instantly hit errors. Thats because multiple devel packages are missing.


# yum install -y kdelibs phonon* libgpod-devel prce



Another package that needs to be installed is libtags. Installing it via yum didnot solve the problem for me. So I had to download the code and install it from here
You will need libmtp. But the ones available in Fedora 9 won't help. Take ones from Fedora 10 repo from here and here

During make i hit a problem, amarok couldn't file libprce and libprceposix, even though they were installed.


# ln -s /usr/lib/libpcreposix.so.0 /usr/lib/libpcreposix
# ln -s /lib/libpcre.so.0 /usr/lib/libpcre.so



Phew!
After all of this, trying compiling amarok again.This time everything should go smooth.
Then do a make and make install.
The make step takes a lot of time.
You should be all set to use the latest and greatest Music Player i.e Amarok 2 RC1 (pun intended!)


The easy way to do this just install the rpm. Grab the beta rpm from here


# yum localinstall amarok-1.90-1.fc9.i386.rpm


The above will resolve all the necessary dependencies and install amarok 2 beta 1


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3 comments:

Anıl said...

Why don't you submit the rpm package to fedora and become a contributor?

Anıl said...

Also, thanks for instructions. I think it will help me while compiling rc1 version.

varun said...

of course we can, but time may not permit. We will do the best we can