:( hi there
i heard about amaroK and looks like it\'s great..
i found a precompiled package for my Slackware (amaroK 1.3.1) but I want the latest :whistle:
I compiled it and was using Xine.. but the sound slutters a lot.. if I run any program the sound slutters.. so I was thinking about using GSTreamer but everytime I try to compile amaroK it says that GSTreamer is not installed...
ok.. then I downloaded GSTreamer and gst-plugin 0.8.11
GSTreamer is installed OK, but amaroK can\'t find it..
I can\'t compile gst-plugin, it can\'t fine gstreamer either..
here is the message from gst-plugin:
[code:1]
checking for gstreamer-0.8 >= 0.8.9.1... Package gstreamer-0.8 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gstreamer-0.8.pc\'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package \'gstreamer-0.8\' found
configure: error: no GStreamer found
[/code:1]

and here is the message from amaroK
[code:1]
checking for gstreamer-0.8 >= 0.8.6... Package gstreamer-0.8 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gstreamer-0.8.pc\'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package \'gstreamer-0.8\' found
checking for gstreamer-plugins-0.8 >= 0.8.6... Package gstreamer-plugins-0.8 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gstreamer-plugins-0.8.pc\'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package \'gstreamer-plugins-0.8\' found
[/code:1]

i\'m using this command to configure amarok:
./configure --enable-mysql --without-arts
don\'t know what should I do..
can anyone help!??!

thanks a lot

gstreamer in my experience stutters more then xine, but I guess YMMV.

You installed using slackware packages?

nope..
i installed everything from source...

I had the same problem with Slack 10.2, heres how I sorted it:

Firstly install gstreamer 8.x (I used 8.11) and gstreamer plugins, which you must have done.

The readme mentions to find \'gstreamer-plugins-0.8.pc\' and type this in with the correct path. This is how I set mine up.
[code:1]export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=\"/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/gstreamer-0.8.pc\"[/code:1]
That didnt work..

So I tried..
[code:1]export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=\"/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/gstreamer-plugins-0.8.pc\" [/code:1]


and finally gtreamers website reckons to:
[code:1]export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig[/code:1]

then \'./configure --etc -etc --etc\'

and that sorted it for me

munkie_poo
thanks a lot man..
with the informations you gave me, I found that my default PKG_CONFIG_PATH was /usr/lib/pkgconfig but GSTreamer was installing its files in /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig.
All I had to do was
# cp /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/gst* /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/
# ldconfig
and then ./configure....

thanks

np.

Glad to help out, took me a while to get it working.

Ive compiled all my programs from source since installing 10.2 and Ive found pkg-config to be a pain in the **** for a few things.

Just for the record, the xine engine works perfect on my system, even when there a lot of stuff going on.

Hope gstreamer sorts your stutter probs