I would really like to get Amarok running on OS X, but I have no knowledge of Fink, compiling from source, etc... I would really appreciate it if someone here could give me detailed step by step instructions. I know it\'s a lot to ask.. but I would be very grateful. I\'de even be willing to pay a measly $5 paypal... Thanks!

-Gabe

just look around on the fink site, they have guides there for installing fink and its packages in general, so the instructions should work fine with amarok.

http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/users-guide/index.php

gragland wrote:

I would really like to get Amarok running on OS X, but I have no knowledge of Fink, compiling from source, etc... I would really appreciate it if someone here could give me detailed step by step instructions. I know it\'s a lot to ask.. but I would be very grateful. I\'de even be willing to pay a measly $5 paypal... Thanks!

-Gabe

Fink has an amaroK package so you don\'t even need to compile from source.

http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/package.php/amarok

eean wrote:

gragland wrote:

I would really like to get Amarok running on OS X, but I have no knowledge of Fink, compiling from source, etc... I would really appreciate it if someone here could give me detailed step by step instructions. I know it\'s a lot to ask.. but I would be very grateful. I\'de even be willing to pay a measly $5 paypal... Thanks!

-Gabe

Fink has an amaroK package so you don\'t even need to compile from source.

http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/package.php/amarok

I dont see a download link or anything on that site...

Fink is a package manager iirc. You install fink and then use it to install the other stuff.

install/set up fink, then type:

fink install amarok

that will compile amarok (and any deps).

WARNING: if thats the first thing you do, it will pick up Xorg, KDE, and more. so it will be a BIG compile.1

lfranchi wrote:

install/set up fink, then type:

fink install amarok

that will compile amarok (and any deps).

WARNING: if thats the first thing you do, it will pick up Xorg, KDE, and more. so it will be a BIG compile.1

Err, fink doesn\'t compile AFAIK.

eean wrote:

lfranchi wrote:

install/set up fink, then type:

fink install amarok

that will compile amarok (and any deps).
WARNING: if thats the first thing you do, it will pick up Xorg, KDE, and more. so it will be a BIG compile.1

Err, fink doesn\'t compile AFAIK.

It does for unstable packages (e.g. almost everything recent) or if requested to do so. I wonder if there is even a stable package for amaroK. If you\'re reading this and wonder what a BIG compile is expect it to take like 24+ hours on an i- or powerbook - from scratch.

Question:
In order to prevent (further) bloat i installed the xine engine (and left gstreamer out) but my sound stutters so much it renders amaroK unusable. There is a coreaudio output option in my finked compile of amaroK and i use that. Does anybody know anything about it? The other options i got (except file) are esd and arts but i couldn\'t get them to work (e.g. no audio if selected, i even had troubles to revert to coreaudio).
Could i possibly use the file output to stream through another device?
Any help will be appreciated

p.s.
esd works if initiated manually before amarok... it\'s a lot better but still a bit skippy.

...thus a script or alias to call amarok on os x (with esd support) could look like this: [code:1]#!/bin/sh
esd -nobeeps -noterminate & amarok
esd -terminate[/code:1]
sorry about the doublepost. still, if you know anything it is very welcome.

Hm. I did notice nobody has replied here but i thought i still keep this thread updated just in case someone comes here looking for help. (That be you?)

I did some work on on a page in the Wiki found at AmarokWiki: On_OS_X, you might want to check that out as it reaches beyond this thread and tries to be a tutorial on how to get things done and why you might want to choose this approach or an other.

ESD not getting started correctly was because Apple\'s X11 server takes the environment of it\'s parent process (which was the dock in my case) and thus the path was not set the way it should have been (although i do wonder why amarok started at all).
So if you have Fink configured properly it\'s recommended to run X11 with
$ open -a x11
from the terminal and then open Amarok from there.

And, of course, \'esd -terminate\' quoted above is a glitch because i didn\'t concentrate hard enough: If you want esd to stop you have to kill its process. Please just pretend that it\'s not there.

I have problems with skippy sound. When I use exposé, when i start a program, even when is click a link or scroll with firefox, the sound skips.
I tried coreaudio and esd and I tried to renice esd. But the sound still is skippy.
Any ideas?

here's the error I get:

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/sw/bin/apt-get-lockwait -q --ignore-breakage --download-only install glut-shlibs=3.7-1025
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  glut-shlibs
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2  not upgraded.
Need to get 235kB of archives. After unpacking 762kB will be used.
Get:1 http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.4/release/main glut-shlibs 3.7-1025 [235kB]
Fetched 235kB in 2s (93.3kB/s)
Download complete and in download only mode
curl -f -L -O http://distfiles.master.finkmirrors.net ... rc5.tar.gz
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed  Time    Time    Time  Current
                                Dload  Upload  Total  Spent    Left  Speed
100 6887k  100 6887k    0    0  169k      0  0:00:40  0:00:40 --:--:--  174k
/sw/bin/apt-get-lockwait -q --ignore-breakage --download-only install xvidcore=1.0.2-11
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  xvidcore
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2  not upgraded.
Need to get 237kB of archives. After unpacking 766kB will be used.
Get:1 http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.4/release/main xvidcore 1.0.2-11 [237kB]
Fetched 237kB in 2s (104kB/s)
Download complete and in download only mode
/sw/bin/apt-get-lockwait -q --ignore-breakage --download-only install xvidcore-shlibs=1.0.2-11
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  xvidcore-shlibs
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2  not upgraded.
Need to get 144kB of archives. After unpacking 397kB will be used.
Get:1 http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.4/release/main xvidcore-shlibs 1.0.2-11 [144kB]
Fetched 144kB in 1s (79.0kB/s)
Download complete and in download only mode
dpkg-deb -b /sw/src/fink.build/root-fink-buildlock-dev-tools-0-1 /sw/src/fink.build
dpkg-deb: building package `fink-buildlock-dev-tools-0-1' in `/sw/src/fink.build/fink-buildlock-dev-tools-0-1_2006.10.11-17.50.29_darwin-powerpc.deb'.
Setting build lock...
/sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait -i /sw/src/fink.build/fink-buildlock-dev-tools-0-1_2006.10.11-17.50.29_darwin-powerpc.deb
Selecting previously deselected package fink-buildlock-dev-tools-0-1.
(Reading database ... 4468 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking fink-buildlock-dev-tools-0-1 (from .../fink-buildlock-dev-tools-0-1_2006.10.11-17.50.29_darwin-powerpc.deb) ...
Setting up fink-buildlock-dev-tools-0-1 (2006.10.11-17.50.29) ...
Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Services.pm line 1162.
/var/tmp/tmp.0.Cww8W8

+----------
|
| Attention!
|
| Package dev-tools is an autogenerated virtual package.
|
| You cannot manipulate this type of package using the usual Fink tools.
| A detailed description of this package follows...
|
| This package represents the basic command-line compiler and
| related programs.  In order for this package to be "installed",
| you must have /usr/bin/gcc and /usr/bin/make available on your
| system.  You can obtain them by installing the Apple developer
| tools (also known as XCode on Mac OS X 10.3 and above).  The
| latest versions of the Apple developer tools are always
| available from Apple at:
|
|  http://connect.apple.com/
|
| (free registration required)
|
| Web site: http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-g ... irtpackage
|
+----------

### execution of /var/tmp/tmp.0.Cww8W8 failed, exit code 1
Removing build lock...
/sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait -r fink-buildlock-dev-tools-0-1
(Reading database ... 4469 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing fink-buildlock-dev-tools-0-1 ...
Failed: phase compiling: dev-tools-0-1 failed

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anyone knows what to do, help would be greatly apreciated ^_^

greets

      thomas

Read the error message,

go to connect.apple.com and get the developer tools

Code: Select all

This package represents the basic command-line compiler and
| related programs.  In order for this package to be "installed",
| you must have /usr/bin/gcc and /usr/bin/make available on your
| system.  You can obtain them by installing the Apple developer
| tools (also known as XCode on Mac OS X 10.3 and above).  The
| latest versions of the Apple developer tools are always
| available from Apple at:
|
|   http://connect.apple.com/
|
| (free registration required)
|
| Web site: http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-general.php#virtpackage

I just wanted to document my experiences compiling Amarok on OSX 10.4 since it was a horrifying task that I never want to forget (and hopefully someone else will benefit from my mistakes):

First off, I'm trying the all-Fink method (fink install amarok) and I wasn't really surprised when it failed compiling a million things - computers never work.  This time though, things seem to be going smoother.  Here are the relevant steps I took:

1. Install Xcode Developer Tools from OSX DVD
2. Install X11User.pkg  (browse the DVD, go to System \ Installation \ Packages and see 'X11User.pkg')
3. I installed gcc4.0.pkg to be safe  (it is probably included with Xcode tools since it is found on the DVD in Xcode Tools \ Packages \ gcc4.0.pkg)
4. Add unstable repositories to Fink (see http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-fink.php#unstable)
5. Run 'sudo fink selfupdate-cvs' and hit enter at the three prompts
6. Run 'fink update-all'
7. Run 'fink index'
8. Run 'fink install amarok'
9. It then asks you to choose options to satisfy virtual dependencies... I have no idea which to choose, but here are the ones I picked:

openslp-dev
gnome-vfs2-dev
imagemagick-dev
gnome-vfs2-shlibs
db44
help2man
ghostscript
ptex-base
jadetex
lynx
ghostsripts-fonts
giflib
tetex-base
tetex-texmf

Then it asks if you want to install like 200 packages and takes a while to download them.  You can probably leave for over half an hour and they will still be downloading.  I don't know what happens next, but I think it will be okay as last time my major problems were associated to installing xorg or free86 through Fink.  I'll post the results tomorrow.

Cheers,
-Aaron

Another quick update:

The compile failed, libid3tag specifically because it had an unmet dependency.  I installed gettext-dev then libid3tag and am now installing amarok once again.  This install failed, but I tried once more running 'fink install amarok' and the third time it worked!!!  I have Amarok compiled!

But.  I cannot connect to X server... so I have other issues to sort out

Cheers,
-Aaron