Hi

On the Amarok blog here:

http://amarok.kde.org/blog/archives/822 ... -sexy.html

Leo Franchi explains how he has got Amorok 2 running on OSX. I have followed his instructions, installed Base System, QT4.4, KDE Support, MySQL 5.1, and 4.12 Apps (in that order) and Amarok runs.

However, I am unable to build a collection.

Leo says to do this

"you'll need to compile/install mysql manually (following instructions for MySqlE)"

and gives a link to

http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Development/MySQL_Embedded

It then has the following instructions:

"
  Compilation instructions

tar xzvf mysql-5.1.28-rc.tar.gz
cd mysql-5.1.28
cp -R /path/to/amaroksource/supplementary_scripts/mysqle/* .
export MAKEOPTS=-j2                                    # or more if you have many CPU cores
./build-mysqle.sh --prefix=${HOME}/usr
then build Amarok like normal

If you install to a different prefix, you will have to set the CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH and CMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH environment variables. For example, if you install to ~/amarok-build/mysql, you should do

export CMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/amarok-build/mysql/lib:$CMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH
export CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH=$HOME/amarok-build/mysql/include:$CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH

before running cmake on the Amarok sources.

"

?

I know nothing about programming and nothing about programming in Unix so i am now lost.

Does anyone know of anywhere I can get a more step-by-step / guided approach to get MySql and therefore Amarok running on my OSX Mac?

Any help would be appreciated.

Sean

Well, this blog article was from October 29, 2008. You can now get Amarok 2 for OSX in a much easier way, from http://mac.kde.org.

They say creating a collection in Amarok doesn't work - I wonder how up-to-date that page is?

I have a lovely collection on OS X using the unofficial Amarok 2 .dmg from the amarok download page (note this is pretty much just Amarok and as much KDE as is required): http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Download:Mac_OS