Thanks for 4.10.95

Gilboa Davara gilboad at gmail.com
Thu Aug 1 13:58:57 UTC 2013


On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 1:07 AM, José Matos <jamatos at fc.up.pt> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 31 July 2013 05:50:42 Martin Skjöldebrand wrote:
> > I've been trying it out for a few days now and one pretty irritting bug is
> > that Amarok crashes on startup. I've been "forced" to use Banshee, but I think
> > Amarok is nicer.
> >
> > Apparently it has to do with kdelibs of the wrong version, but I fail to
> > understand how to reinstall kdelibs properly. When I try following
> > instructions on the net I get a lot of broken dependencies from other
> > installed packages wanting the older version (10.5.x) of kdelibs. I am guess
> > 10.95 really is compatible but how do I persuade the packages to accept the
> > later kdelibs?
> >
> > I am guessing the problem will resolve it self "soon" as I am seeing posts
> > about the release of KDE 4.11 in the near future - but still. Any suggestions?
> >
> > /Martin S
>
> I can reproduce the problem.
>
> Looking into my system I see that:
>
> # yum info amarok
> ...
> Repo        : installed
> From repo   : updates-testing
> ...
>
> so I think that the easiest solution is Rex to rebuild amarok using the new libs. Or FWIW Rex's gnomes (like Santa Claus). :-D
>
> This can be done locally but for the moment I don't have either the time to do it myself or to describe how to do it.

I've built amarok with the work-around suggested in bug #320855 [1]
and it seems to work just fine.
If anyone needs the patch / updated spec file, please let me know.

- Gilboa
[1] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=320855


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