Jaroslaw Polok <[log in to unmask]> ha scritto:

> > P.S.: I'm also a bit shocked to learn that yum can find no Amarok
> > package...
>
> Most likely because it does not work nicely with
> not-the-latest  GTK ...
>
> I have my private (old) amarok (1.4) rpms for SL(C)4 at:
>
> http://cern.ch/~jpolok/amarok/
>
> .. you may give it a try if you do not find newer ...
> (be aware that on SL(C)4 the GUI - with few thousands
> song collection - is barely useable ... scrolls ..
> VEEERY slowly ... (but plays OK) due to old GTK libs
> ... I guess)
>
> Jarek


Thanks Jarek. Amarok uses Qt rather than GTK, though, so the cause to 
any quirks you may notice probably lies elsewhere.

Anyway, I finally got around to building the thing from source (latest 
stable release 1.4.8 from amarok.kde.org). I'll report what I did, just 
in case anyone wants to do the same.

1) Stuff to be installed with yum (list might not be exhaustive, 
depending on system config):

- qt-devel
- arts-devel
- kdemultimedia-devel
- taglib
- taglib-devel
- ruby
- ruby-devel
- xine-lib
- xine-lib-devel

2) Download source tarball, untar and cd to resulting dir.

3) I configured as follows:

./configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-gnu-ld \
--with-qt-dir=/usr/lib/qt-3.3 --with-extra-includes=/usr/lib/qt-3.3


I like the stuff I build from source to go into '/usr/local'. KDE needs 
to know about this, i.e. the KDEDIRS environment variable must be set 
(at least) to '/usr/local:/usr' when KDE starts. If you don't want to 
bother with this, install into /usr (by omitting /local from the above 
command line).

4) If all goes well, 'make' and 'sudo make install'.


Regards,
Andrea