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How To Compile Amarok 2 From SVN On K/X/Ubuntu Amarok is a pretty nifty, versatile and advanced music player for the KDE desktop. However the current version in the *buntu 8.10 repos is hopelessly outdated and (IMHO) totally bugged. There's also the Amarok Neon Project, which aims at providing daily SVN builds for *buntu however lately they have not been updated. So, if you want to be up-to-date with latest Amarok development you either wait until the Neon Project provides binaries again or you compile it on your own. If you want to compile it on your own, you require KDE 4.2. There are also PPA repos for that, use my generator http://repogen.simplylinux.ch to get the according info.
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In kde 4.3 svn - jaunty beta I've resolved qtscript dependencies using this command, before compiling amarok from svn:
export QTSCRIPTS=/usr/lib/qt4/plugins/script
Solution to fix qtscriptgenerator linking problem when using KDE built from svn on Debian (testing in my case):
If while building a qtbindings from qtscriptgenerator, you have a link error like "ld: can't find -lphonon", try removing a line "QT += phonon" from qtbindings/qtscript_phonon/qtscript_phonon.pro
That worked for me :)
worked for me on sidux (debian based)
Hi There,
I have some problems applying the patch, I get this:
reg@reg-desktop:~/kde/src/qtscriptgenerator-src-0.1.0$ patch -p1 < include_everything.patch
patching file generator/qtscript_masterinclude.h
Hunk #1 FAILED at 31.
1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file generator/qtscript_masterinclude.h.rej
reg@reg-desktop:~/kde/src/qtscriptgenerator-src-0.1.0$
Any clue why that is?
Thanks!
Ron
I know this may be unorthodox, but I just went into qtbindings.pro and deleted the line for phonon, and bang, after 4 or 5 days of trying patches, and adjustments to code, it finally compiled and I'm using it right now. No ill effects so far. I figured why not, none of the other things worked for me...
Run kmenuedit from the command line (you may have to install it first). Find the Amarok entry under Multimedia (or create a new one if none is present). In the options, change Command to: [code]~/kde/bin/amarok %U[/code]
You will now be able to launch Amarok from Kickoff, use the Open With context menu to play music in Amarok, etc. as usual.