Hello i am running amaraok on kubuntu 10.4 and i can t believe my eyes on amarok :
there is no toolbars ans no way to edit preferences , scan my music folder or whatever !!
You may think i am stupid but please tell me how to recover this or i will not be able to use amarok anymore ....

JFYI: Lucid aka Kubuntu 10.04 doesn't ship Amarok 2.2.x, but Amarok 2.3.0

Try reinstalling Amarok, and make sure you have all packages installed. This sounds like you are missing a few elements. The necessary packages on Lucid are:

amarok
amarok-common
amarok-utils

Note that you may also have stale *ui.rc files, please run the following command if the above does not fix the issue:

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rm $(kde4-config --localprefix)/share/apps/amarok/*ui.rc

I would think it is more the solution than the reinstallation becaus i have already tried to remove and reinstall Amarok off course and all the packages arte there .
I may try another time with a -purge option and i will do it .
Two questions about the last advise :
what is "localprefix" ?
and off course ui.rc ?

Thank you.

Remove ~/.kde/share/config/amarok*. There are no *ui.rc files in the ~/.kde/share/kde4/amarok folder.

monk

@yvmars: That is a command, that once executed in Konsole will automatically locate your KDE user settings directory then remove the files specified in it ( in this case all files ending with ui.rc in share/config/amarok )

@Dieter Schroeder: Not all distributions use ~/.kde, some use ~/.kde4 and other locations are also used, hence the "kde4-config --localprefix" component to my command...

Hello, i have tried the three methods and nothing is changed : there are stil no toolbar at all ....
it is becoming very strange and frustrating .

@Dieter Schroeder: Not all distributions use ~/.kde, some use ~/.kde4 and other locations are also used, hence the "kde4-config --localprefix" component to my command...

yvmars uses Kubuntu, where localprefix =.kde.
Best advice would be to use a real distro and throw Kackbuntu in the bin.
Most trouble here is on Ubuntu, perhaps because it is widely used, perhaps because it is so buggy.
In this case i assume amarok doesn't find all of its resources, which means bad packaged.

m0nk

@yvmars: Does it work under a new user?

If it does -> Bad user preferences somewhere in $HOME.
If it doesn't -> Broken packaging, please file a bug with your distribution.

it does !!!
But "somewhere in home" is not a file i can remove ...
I did use apt-get --purge but it appears to be not powerfull enough ....

Try to remove
~/.kde/share/apps/amarok*
and
~/.kde/share/config/amarok*

This will fully reset Amarok (be warned: you lose all Amarok settings and ratings / the Amarok database).

As the problem seems to be with your kde configuration, apt-get can do nothing for you as it only resets the system-wide settings.

i have tried apt-get autoremove -purge amarok amarok-utils amarok-common and reinstallation ,then your suggestion and ..... it s all the same .
It must be a file in my home folder .... i wonder where .

Ok i have suceeded, even though i will never know the real problem by renaming .kde in my personnal folder and then runing amarok.
New files were created and that was it .
The big work was then to copy all the .kde files in the new folder with the exception of the amarok ones.
curiously it seems to be the same way as deleting the amarok files but this method works and the other does not ...