using Suse 10.0.

first of all, I removed Amarok 1.3.1 (the version came with suse 10.0)

then I tried installing Amarok 1.3.7:
(Building From Source)
got this configure error:

checking if C++ programs can be compiled... no
configure: error: Your Installation isn\'t able to compile simple C++ programs.
Check config.log for details - if you\'re using a Linux distribution you might miss
a package named similar to libstdc++-dev.

checked and I have libstdc++-devel installed (tried re-installing that in Yast-same results)


any help would be much appreciated

Why don\'t you simply use a package:

http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/rpm-nav ... nd/amarok/


Have fun

good question!
i\'ll try that now.
thanks markey

doesn\'t look like there are any for x86_64 yet..

any other ways to update amarok?

i\'ve tried:
-building from source - config error
-Guru\'s RPM - only i686 available (i\'m running 64bit)
-svn - more errors
-Yast - the latest available is amarok 1.3.1!

Have you looked into config.log for a more detailed error message?

might be a silly question... but is gcc installed?

gcc was already installed...
I seemed to have solved the config error - i was missing gcc-c++.

Configure is able to finish now but it can\'t see gstreamer!. i get this message at the end of configure:

The optional GStreamer-engine will not be built. If you want to use the powerful GStreamer multimedia framework with amaroK, please download version 0.8.6 or higher from http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/

If you are sure GStreamer is already installed then there is most likely a
problem with your pkg-config setup, see amarok/README

I have installed gstreamer-plugins-extra-mad-0.8.11-3.x86_64.rpm and typed gst-register in the console.

here\'s what the readme says:

INSTALLATION-FAQ
==================

Q: I have the required version of GStreamer installed but configure doesn\'t
find it!
Q: I have pkg-config problems.
A: Here\'s an extract from the PKG-CONFIG man page:

pkg-config retrieves information about packages from special metadata
files. These files are named after the package, with the extension
.pc. By default, pkg-config looks in the directory prefix/lib/pkgconfig
for these files; it will also look in the colon-separated list of
directories specified by the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable.

So, do export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=\"/path/to/gstreamer-0.x.y.pc\" and reconfigure.

i\'m not sure what it means but i tried typing:

#PKG_CONFIG_PATH=\"/path/to/gstreamer-0.x.y.pc\"
#./configure

and i get the same results.

...that should have been
#PKG_CONFIG_PATH=\"/path/to/gstreamer-1.3.7.pc\"

#./configure

If you do
rpm -qa gstreamer\\*
you should see several packages ending in -devel listed. If this is not the case, install every such package for your distribution you can get hold off. Then if you do
rpm -ql gstreamer-blah-blub-devel
for each of them, you should see a file ending in .pc listed. Let\'s say, this file is in the directory /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig. Then you would set the variable as follows:
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
before re-running configure.

Good luck!

thanks,
will give it a try