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This page lists help and instructions for those using Fedora 8, 7, Core6 and below. In the majority of the versions of Fedora, MP3 playback in Amarok versions pre-installed is not included for legal reasons.
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Fedora Versions
Version 8 (KDE / GNOME installation disks)
Version 7 (KDE / GNOME installation disks)
With the KDE version of Fedora 7's installer, you will be provided with a pre-installed version of Amarok (1.4.5 on KDE 3.5.7-21.fc7), but by default there is no installed RDBMS servers such as MySQL or PostgreSQL, and in order for you to be able to store your collection in these database servers you will be required to install them using Fedora 7's package management utility (pirut), or to use yum.
If you've used the GNOME-based default which Fedora uses, then you will be required to install Amarok manually through using repositories, adding repo servers to yum or by running Amarok RPM's in a graphical client:
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Installation
If you want the nice quick and easy method, then the easiest way of installing amarok in Fedora would be just to install using yum if you're after the latest packaged version:
rpm -ivh repo_url yum install amarok amarok-extras-nonfree
If you want to build this kind of thing completely from source, you've got a large list of dependencies you need installing and it is much too long for me to write the process. Calculate the base dependencies for all deps, then install upwards. Good luck!
If you've installed from the Fedora7-KDE CD, then you'll already have Amarok installed under K Menu -> Multimedia -> Audio Player (Amarok). As a reccomendation, you would be best installing mysql before you running Amarok for the first time on your newly-installed Fedora7 as there can be speed issues with the default SQLite installation. For a quick guide,
yum -y install mysql-server /etc/init.d/mysqld start chkconfig mysqld on
Then, make yourself a new user using the mysql prompt:
- Creating a new MySQL user
- Add all rights that relate to amarok (SELECT, UPDATE, DROP, etc)
Fill in the user data when you're installing Amarok and then enjoy. To ensure you don't have to keep running and dropping MySQL, use the chkconfig command above to allow mysqld to run naturally.
Version 6 Core
Amarok 1.4.5
- Available in extras repo
- Ugly formats on livna repo (rpm.livna.org )
- Easy way to install:
rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm yum install amarok amarok-extras-nonfree