Wednesday, November 2. 2005The State of the roK; new amaroK SVN klik
amaroK development has been busy, like usual though perhaps more so since the start of amaroK 1.4 development.
Most of the new features and changes are really just polish on the existing feature set. I expect this will remain the case for 1.4 - we are looking forward to porting to Qt 4.0 and releasing amaroK 2.0. But that doesn't make the features going in now any less valuable:
Now there is a new option to try out an amaroK from SVN with a pretty minimal sets of dependencies. I installed a Sarge chroot yesterday and have started creating amaroK 1.4-SVN Sarge Debian packages. Using these, Kurt Pfeifle was able to script around the KDE-plugins relocatable problem and create a klik. To install with this method, simply run: wget klik.atekon.de/client/install -O -|sh and follow the directions, if you don't have klik installed already. Then simply browser to klik://amarok-svn-nightly: konqueror klik://amarok-svn-nightly You have to enter my email address ian(a)monroe.nu (replacing (a) with @) as its still a pending package. They should be updated by about 11:00 UTC almost every day. Trackbacks
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The klik thing works like a charm and I enjoy testing SVN now. cheers
I'm happy you like it.
Hopefully it helps you find more real beta testers for (and newbie users of) amaroK. And hopefully, beta-testing with the help of klik does not only reveal problems which are klik's fault. Otherwise it won't be a real asset for developers, but more of a burden.  But be patient with klik. We know it is not yet perfect -- but we have some interesting plans to to fix that too... Please give feedback. Where does it work (OS, version?), and where does it no (OS, version?) ? For now, you can find in "/tmp/klik/amarok-svn-nightly/" the undeleted "staging directory" which was used to build the amarok-svn-nightly.cmg. To help debugging, look at the wrapper script. You can run the wrapper script inside the staging directory directly, without mounting the .cmg: --> "sh -x /tmp/klik/amarok-svn-nightly/wrapper"
anyone tried the amarok-svn-nightly klik in suse?
I use openSUSE 1.0 and I would download amarok svn for testing, but only if it will work - I can't afford abussing a shared 56k line .-/
Awesome news! Yay!
Are there any screenshots of the Statistics tool?
Hi!
Could you please keep the Home tab and just add a configuration option (default to off), that controls whether the Home tab is shown or not? Taste on what looks cluttered varies. I don't mind at all having four tabs. In fact, I heavily use the easy access to newest and least played albums in the Home tab. Keep in mind that one of the big pros of KDE is the configurability! Regards, Georg
klik .cmg package doesn't work on Kubuntu hoary. It also doesn't work on breezy but I think that's the fault of the OS. Something is wrong with my breezy mimetypes. In hoary it doesn't work because I don't have glibc 2.3.4 installed which amarok seems to require. I have 2.3.2 . I would recommend using an older version of glibc to link against, if possible. This would mean that it would work on more systems. I'm assuming amarok was compiled with g++ version 4.0 or higher. This is fine, but i would also see if it is possible to compile it with g++ 3.2 and ship both binaries and then use the ABI that the rest of the system was compiled with. Almost every desktop system is bount to fall in these to ABI versions. I don't know if that is possible with klik. The upcoming autopackage 1.2 will provide this feature by default. But I grow tired of autopackage's problems. Besides, klik has far more potential to succeed since it much easier to get distros to support klik than autopackage.
I linked againist Sarge's glibc. That has to be old. Perhaps something else is wrong?
Hmm, you're right. That should be old enough. But still that is definately the problem.
amarokapp: /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.3.4' not found (required by amarokapp) My package manager doesn't have glibc_2.3.4 in it. I only have 2.3.2 available. So that must mean that 2.3.2 isn't dead and ancient right? If I'm off base here, my apologies.
Update, I managed to update my glibc to 2.3.5. Yes, I'm aware how risky that was. But it was a small upgrade. Klik Amarok now loads but gives me an error message saying no sound engine plugins were found. I'm assuming no engine plugins were in the .cmg package. Any thoughts?
Amarok now loads but gives me an error message saying no sound engine plugins were found
Hmm... it bundles the xine engine. Did you try to go through the amarok setup once it klik-loaded, and switch to Xine? cheers, Kurt
I never can get to that. It's acting like a problem with ksycoca. It complains with this:
kbuildsycoca running... Reusing existing ksycoca kio (KSycoca): ERROR: No database available! I don't have this issue with any other app though. This happens on hoary and breezy. Since it does it on both of my kubuntu version, that leads me to believe that it can't just be my system. But someone below reported success with breezy. I'll keep digging.
I had the same problem, after the splash screen two dialog windows would appear saying that no engines could be found, clicking okay (or equivalent, don't remember wording) would cause it to completely crash, no setup dialog or anything. I'll continue to try it and see if anything works.
It actually works fine for me now, not sure what caused it. It might have been moving the configuration file for amarok that fixed it.
"not tested for suse, you have been warned" ---> works like a charm for me on suse 10.0!
klik is wonderful, thank you for this...
Really? Man, something must be wrong with all of my installations. It didn't work for me on my SUSE 10 installation either. It never started downloading anything.
Perhaps something is wrong with your klik install. Try doing klik://kcalc just to test it.
yeah, i had this too, for a long time, but now, suddenly it's gone...
i know this sounds funny but it's true, i even left a post about it on the klik board! http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=21460 oh well, no idea...
Hi,
is there a way to get the mood bar feature compiled into this klik package? Would be cool to try that out. greetings, skypa
Right now it doesn't work for most people, once things get ironed out thats probably a good idea.
I have installed kubuntu 5.10 breezy badger and got an error message saying something like
"problem with sound engine" when I started it for the first time) . However it works every consequenced start now.
I tested the klik on SuSE 10.0 (with packman xine packages) and it works, but only if the crossfade is disabled and the engine is xine-engine. If I try crossfade amarok hangs. Trying to reconfigure the engine causes hangs too.
Who can help me install the latest Amorak on Xandros Ver 3. I have version 1.2 of Amorak which I installed using Xandros Networks. You are going to have to humour me as I have no idea about installing programs with Linux.
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