Dependencies for amarok 1.4

[Beso]

2008/12/3 Leo Franchi <lfranchi at kde.org>:
> On 3 Dec 2008, at 12:14, Beso wrote:
>
>> 2008/12/3 Rich <rich at hq.vsaa.lv>:
>>> On 2008.12.03. 12:40, Beso wrote:
>>>> 2008/12/3 Seb Ruiz <ruiz at kde.org>:
>>>>> 2008/12/3 Frank Wilson <fajwilson at gmail.com>:
>>>>>> I have KDE4 installed. If I want to compile and run amarok 1.4,
>>>>>> do I
>>>>>> also need KDE3?
>>>>>> The readme says "You must have KDElibs 3.3 or higher installed."
>>>>>> but i guess the KDE4 branch is not backwards compatible because
>>>>>> im getting
>>>>>> configure errors to do with KDE.
>>>>> No, KDE4 is not backwards compatible. Use the latest stable 3.5
>>>>> release (3.5.10 iirc).
>>>>>
>>>> you need qt4 with qt3 support (or qt3 installed altogether with
>>>> qt4),
>>>> kdelibs and mysql. you might need additional packages based on other
>>>> needs.
>>>
>>> mysql is optional, i think ?
>>> ruby is used for many scripts, so that one might be needed
>>> --
>>> Rich
>>>
>> for what i know mysql has been a requirement for the collection db,
>> but i might be wrong. you might be able to compile amarok 1.4 without
>> mysql support, but with some other db installed. i personally haven't
>> seen any new linux system without one db installed and usually if you
>> install qt4 and kde4 you should have mysql installed as a
>> prerequisite, so mysql shouldn't really be a problem.
>> anyway, if you have kde4 i'd advice you to pass to amarok2.
>
> Amarok 1.x does not require mysql (it uses sqlite internally if you
> don't tell it to connect to an external msyql db), and it does not
> require Qt4 with Qt3Support. It requires Qt 3.x completely. Qt3Support
> is a part of qt4 designed to make it easier to port apps to qt4, but
> it is still qt4.
>
> leo
>
the requirements of qt4 with qt3 support is for kdelibs 3.5, which is
requirement for amarok 1.4,
on a kde4 - qt4 system.

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dott. ing. beso