G'day,

I have tried over the past six months to get Amarok working. I have tried many different versions, both building from SVN and installing from RPM, updated my operating system's libraries, installed myriad packages, deleted configuration files and ksycocas, and searched for everything regarding the problem. But to no avail.

My current system setup is a SUSE 10.2 alpha with KDE 3.5.3. Xine and xine-devel are their latest versions, and I have installed Amarok 1.4.3.

Upon attempting to start amarok from cli, the following error occurs in a pop-up dialogue box entitled "Error - amaroK":

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amaroK could not find any sound-engine plugins. amaroK is now updating the KDE configuration database. Please wait a couple of minutes, then restart amaroK.
If this does not help, it is likely that amaroK is installed under the wrong prefix, please fix your installation using:
$ cd /path/to/amarok/source-code/
$ su -c "make uninstall"
$ ./configure --prefix=`kde-config --prefix` && su -c "make install"
$ kbuildsycoca
$ amarok
More information can be found in the README file. For further assistance join us at #amarok on irc.freenode.net.

The console message is:

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amarok
amaroK: [Loader] Starting amarokapp..
amaroK: [Loader] Don't run gdb, valgrind, etc. against this binary! Use amarokapp.
amarok: BEGIN: App::App()
amarok:   BEGIN: EngineBase* EngineController::loadEngine(const QString&)
amarok:     [PluginManager] Plugin trader constraint: [X-KDE-amaroK-framework-version] == 10 and [X-KDE-amaroK-plugintype] == 'engine' and [X-KDE-amaroK-name] != 'void-engine' and [X-KDE-amaroK-rank] > 0
kio (KMimeType): WARNING: KServiceType::offers : servicetype amaroK/Plugin not found
amarok:     [PluginManager] Plugin trader constraint: [X-KDE-amaroK-framework-version] == 10 and [X-KDE-amaroK-plugintype] == 'engine' and [X-KDE-amaroK-name] == 'void-engine' and [X-KDE-amaroK-rank] > 0
kio (KMimeType): WARNING: KServiceType::offers : servicetype amaroK/Plugin not found
kbuildsycoca running...
Reusing existing ksycoca
amaroK: [Loader] amaroK is taking a long time to load! Perhaps something has gone wrong?

Similarly, if amarokapp is run, the same error occurs.

It seems to me that I have tried everything available on the Internet regarding this particular error. I am sure that it is a basic problem such as a library that needs updating, but I am completely out of ideas. With luck, one of you will be able to help!