Hi,
I am using RHEL6 workstation at work (company policy). I would like to install amarok but I'm having problems.
amorak isn't in the base install of KDE. I can't find it in EPEL or RPMFusion or RPMForge (for RHEL6).
Somehow I managed to compile from source on RHEL5 some years ago but I'm having issues again.
None of my dependencies are sufficiently up to date so I've resorted to building everything from source.
To be honest I'd be happy with any version I can get working even 1.4. Its not clear what version would make
sense based on the libraries available for RHEL6 directly from supported repos.

note: the KDE repo doesn't seem to work (cannot retrieve repodata.xml).

I think the sensible option is probably to use build-tool or kdesrc-build.

gem install build-tool fails because ruby is out of date.
Does anyone use this method to build KDE?

kdesrc-build complains it can't download the source.
I am using cntlm as a proxy but its possible whatever kdesrc-build uses it not picking up the proxy.

At the risk of opening old wounds is there some way in which RHEL is fundamentally broken in regards to KDE
(or visa versa)?

amarok-2.6 requires KDElibs >= 4.6 (I have KDElibs 4.4)
kdelibs 4.8 requires qt 4.7 (I have 4.6.2)
qt says it can't find gstreamer (though I have that installed)

All whinging aside.
What is the most sensible way to getting a working Amarok on RHEL6?
Has anyone out there managed it?

I'm using rhythmbox for now but various things aren't working, like the progress bar.
















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I move this to a different forum as if it is not Amarok specific but more of a distribution problem and a KDE one.

I am just wondering: Since Fedora is a spin-off of RedHat: couldn't you just use the Fedora repositories?

Please also see this thread: viewtopic.php?f=63&t=101840

The 'real' Fedora repos conflict with the redhat ones. I think we have EPEL (and RPMFusion) repos so that redhat users can benefit from fedora stuff without having two repos trying to provide the same item.

Perhaps the problem, rather crudely, is that redhat aims to be ultra conservative while KDE aims to kept on the bleeding edge.
So redhat doesn't have packages needed either to install or build KDE. When building from source the build process for KDE
assumes a lot more background infrastructure than is available in redhat. But if a soyuz can dock with a space shuttle it should be possible.
I just need help from an astronaut who speaks both russian and English.

(I posted in the Amarok forum originally because all I wanted to do was install Amarok but yes the problems are caused not directly but
by the KDE libraries. I did see some other threads before posting but so far none have helped.)

is there a Clementine package available ? it was based on Amarok 1.4 http://www.clementine-player.org/ http://code.google.com/p/clementine-player/

Compiling From Source http://code.google.com/p/clementine-pla ... FromSource looks like the requirements do not include KDE, just QT

I have build entire KDE 3.5.10 for EL6 including Amarok 1.4, and it works quite well. Compiled against xine-lib from atrpms, mysql and postgresql from base (as collection database backend).
It's not hard to build it, but some fixes in the C++ code are necessary, for example fixing non-const to const types. Source code (orginal and fixed) and binaries can be found here:
http://users.welmers.net/bastiaan/nobackup/el6-kde3/

Unfortunatly the binaries reside in one big tarball of 120MB (extracted about 350MB) with an entire KDE3 distribution, not only Amarok 1.4. Fortunatly the tarball can be extracted in /opt/kde3, and can easliy be removed with rm -rf afterwards.
Unfortunatly you must find and fix the dependencies yourself. Fortunatly, this can be done quite easily by just running in a console and see what so's are missing and install them with yum, they come from base, epel and atrpms.