Dependencies for amarok 1.4

[Beso]

2008/12/3 Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de>:
> On 03.12.08 13:22:17, Beso wrote:
>> 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.
>> >
>> the requirements of qt4 with qt3 support is for kdelibs 3.5, which is
>> requirement for amarok 1.4,
>> on a kde4 - qt4 system.
>
> Thats wrong as well, kdelibs3.5 depends on Qt3 only, it cannot compiler
> with qt4 (with or without qt3support). However some parts of KDE4 still use
> Qt3Support classes (IIRC even some parts of kdelibs) so thats why
> Qt4+Qt3Support are needed on a KDE4 system.
>
> Andreas
>
so you actually need both qt4 and qt3?!

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