Hi!

I\'m rather new to amarok and would like to install it on an other PC.

But I\'d like to know what files toes amarok depend on? When I try to install it on Gentoo it would like to emerge (install) xmms and kdemultimedia as well. Why are those packages necessary?

Please help.

Thanks.

crparr wrote:

But I\'d like to know what files toes amarok depend on? When I try to install it on Gentoo it would like to emerge (install) xmms and kdemultimedia as well. Why are those packages necessary?

They are not necessary at all. Those are optional dependencies. Take a look at README, it lists all deps. As it\'s Christmas I\'m being social today and post the list here, for your pleasure:

DEPENDENCIES
============

required
* KDE-Libs 3.2
http://www.kde.org

* TagLib 1.3.1
(metadata tagging library)
http://freshmeat.net/projects/taglib

recommended
* GStreamer-0.8.1 + GStreamer-Plugins-0.8.1
(multimedia framework)
http://gstreamer.net

optional
* aRts 1.2 + KDE-Multimedia 3.2
(multimedia framework)
http://www.kde.org

* MAS 0.6.3
(multimedia framework)
http://www.mediaapplicationserver.net

* NMM 0.4.4
(multimedia framework)
http://www.networkmultimedia.org

* xine 1.0.0
(multimedia framework)
http://xine.sourceforge.net

* KDE-Base 3.2
(needed for Konqueror Sidebar)
http://www.kde.org

* OpenGL accelerated X-Server
(visualization rendering)

* Libvisual 0.2.0 + SDL 1.2
(visualization framework)
http://libvisual.sf.net
http://www.libsdl.org

* libtunepimp 0.3
(automatic tagging support)
http://www.musicbrainz.org/

* XMMS 1.2 + XMMS visualization plugins
(visualization plugins)
http://xmms.org

* K3B 0.11
(CD burning support)
http://www.k3b.org


Please note, if you obtain these dependencies via a packaging system, you must
also install the devel versions of these packages!

Thanks a lot.

Still Musicbrainz libs are a pain in the #$#$.

I have SuSE 9.1 with musicbrainz 2.0, but amaroK needs libtunepimp 0.3, that needs musicbrainz 2.1. So lets compile you say and you are right, but after compiling 2.1 SuSE doesnt wants to update musicbrainz 2.0, because some other packages need 2.0. After installing mb 2.1 in another location, libtunepimp still doesnt want to compile, because it is not able to find it. Mmmhh I give up or am I to early?

Cheers,

Jeroen