xine engine failure

[Peter C. Ndikuwera]

The best thing to do is to put packman & guru's repositories in your
package management tool - smart, apt, yum, yast, etc.

This way, all the dependency issues are solved by the _package management_ tool.

Peter

On 2/7/07, Donn Washburn <n5xwb at hal-pc.org> wrote:
> Peter C. Ndikuwera wrote:
> > Same here. I use packman & guru's repositories and everything updates fine.
> >
> > This is alot of FUD.
> >
> > On 2/7/07, Rich <rich at hq.vsaa.lv> wrote:
> >> Donn Washburn wrote:
> >>> Hey Group;
> >>>
> >>> After one of SuSE's Update screw ups now xine audio is not working with
> >>> Amarok.  So, in an effort to fix the problem I have downloaded and
> >>> compiled libvisual 4 and plugins, xine-lib 1.1.4 and xine.gui. All "make
> >>> check"s worked and I installed all of them - still amarok fails to see
> >>> xine audio.  Also Amarok 1.4.5 is still failing to compile in /libvisual
> >> usually packman xine + guru amarok has worked fine for me. have you
> >> tried those precompiled packages ?
> >>
> >>> Anyone have a clue?
> >>>
> >>> Also SuSE users DO NOT download via the Update system libzypp.so.209.0.5
> >>> or atleast refuse to let it remove things.  That disaster is likely to
> >>> cause a complete reload.
> >> ...
> >> --
> >>   Rich
> Well I did try packman's 1.4.5 rpm and it complains about missing
> dependencies.   To which I did download, using "ldd
> /opt/kde3/bin/amarokap" after it failed showed.  It now comes up but
> states "no audio".
> I think it is likely a mixed libs problem or permissions.  I was going
> to compile Amarok from source but it fails in /libvisual.  I did
> download and install libvisual and it's plugins.  Still amarok fails in
> /libvisual when compiled - more tonight maybe!.
>
> Running as root I get this message - clue to try
>
> Amarok could not find any sound-engine plugins. Amarok is now updating
> the KDE configuration database. Please wait a couple of minutes, then
> restart Amarok.
> If this does not help, it is likely that Amarok is installed under the
> wrong prefix, please fix your installation using:
> $ cd /path/to/amarok/source-code/
> $ su -c "make uninstall"
> $ ./configure --prefix=`kde-config --prefix` && su -c "make install"
> $ kbuildsycoca
> $ amarok
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> join us at #amarok on irc.freenode.net.
>
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