I?m guessing but I suspect there other people out there how have Mandrake 10 and want to install amaraoK. (everybody does, it rocks!)

I got a mislead by the PKG_CONFIG_PATH thing at first, this is what I did to get it working, hope it helps someone

1) Check your soundcard is actually working with ALSA. If it isn?t fix it before going any further. (this seems to a big thing with Mandrake 10 for some reason)

2) Find a cooker mirror, install it with :
(all commands have to run as root)

urpmi.addmedia cooker [your cooker URL]
urpmi.update -a

3) Remove all files which mention gstreamer,

then

rpm ---rebuild-db (go make a cup of coffee, read a newspaper...)
urpmi gstreamer
urpmi gstreamer-plugins
urpmi gstreamer-alsa
urpmi gstreamer-flac
urpmi gstreamer-mad
urpmi gstreamer-audio-formats
urpmi gstreamer-devel


4) download taglib 1.3 from taglib.org

rm ?rf /usr/include/taglib
bunzip2 taglib-1.3.tar.bz2
tar xf taglib-1.3.tar
cd taglib-1.3
./configure ?prefix=/usr; make ;make install

then finally
cd amarok-1.1
./configure ?prefix=/usr; make ;make install

and enjoy! Its worth the hassle

you download taglib from http://ktown.kde.org/~wheeler/taglib.html
not taglib.org :x

Gstreamer vs aRts.

I do know that under the hood, gstreamer is much better and so on than aRTs. But avove the hood (behind the steering weel, so to say) it plainly sucks on KDE.

My mail-notifies, kopete-attention bells, error sounds etc, acumulate, untill gstreamer is finished. (aRts plays sounds nicely in real time). gstreamer only works when arts is swtiched off. gstreamer does ni=ot work well with KIO etcet.

So I decided to leave gstreamer gstreamer and use aRts for my amarok.
I compiled amarok without any gstreamer libraries, and it works like a charm here..

So a lot of steps in the abovementioned posts can be skipped, if you wish. But you will then have an aRts only amarok.

One of the devs mentioned that you could use the arts output plugin for gstreamer. Then gstreamer would only be decoding the audio and arts would handle the sound card.

I haven't actually done this, since amaroK is pretty much the only audio program I use anyways, so I just stick to gstreamer.

Ber wrote:

Gstreamer vs aRts.

My mail-notifies, kopete-attention bells, error sounds etc, acumulate, untill gstreamer is finished. (aRts plays sounds nicely in real time). gstreamer only works when arts is swtiched off. gstreamer does ni=ot work well with KIO etcet.

if you got a proper alsa setup (with dmix e.g.), you can run arts and gstreamer concurrently.
also, you can still use kio with gstreamer in amarok!

regards,
muesli

Amarok compiled and installed fine for me just using the instructions provided in the readme...

I'm a linux noob though, and now that I've compiled and installed it, I have no clue how to run it!

Any help here?

type 'amarok' on your console. or you probably want a shortcut on your desktop so right click and then new->link to application. just put amarok in the 'command' box under the application tab. make sure to set the icon from the amarok directory aswell!

p.s. well done on compiling been a noob