Problem Installing Amarok on Sarge

JmanA9 · 08-02-2006, 01:25 PM

I'm having trouble installing Amarok on Sarge 3.1. When I try running apt-get install amarok, I get this:

Quote:

Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
amarok: Depends: amarok-engines but it is not going to be installed or
amarok-engine
Depends: kdelibs4c2a (>= 4:3.5.3-1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libgpod0 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libqt3-mt (>= 3:3.3.6) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

I also tried combinations of amarok with amarok-xine and amarok-engine, and got similar errors each time. When I try to install amarok using Synaptic, it wants to remove a ton of packages, and install xorg. I also tried compling the source, and eventually during the configure process, I get this:

Quote:

checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please check your installation and add the correct paths!

Do I need xorg to use Amarok? If not, can someone tell me what I need to do to get it working? Below is my apt sources file. Thanks in advance!

Code:

# deb file:///cdrom/ sarge main

deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ stable main
deb-src http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ stable main
deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ unstable main
deb-src http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ stable main
deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ testing main
deb-src http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ testing main
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main

pljvaldez · 08-02-2006, 01:40 PM

It looks like you're using mixed repositories. What is happening is that the newest version is in unstable, but some of the libraries installed are currently from Sarge. By installing those libraries, it would break other packages, so instead it upchucks at you.

You should either decide on one (stable, testing, or unstable) exclusively, or read up on how to do apt-pinning. You can just comment out the following lines:

Code:

# deb file:///cdrom/ sarge main

deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ stable main
deb-src http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ stable main
#deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ unstable main
#deb-src http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ stable main <-- this line is here twice
#deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ testing main
#deb-src http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ testing main
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main

HappyTux · 08-02-2006, 02:19 PM

For your compile from source question/problem you need the X development files installed try apt-cache search xfree86 dev the package you need to install should be included in the list returned. You may want to install apt-file it allows you to search on the missing file(s) it works like apt-get in that you need to apt-file update as root then can use apt-file search file/missing.h as normal user.

JmanA9 · 08-03-2006, 12:26 AM

Isolating my apt sources to only the stable repositories worked. Amarok is now installed! The only problem is that it freezes after the second track played, but I've seen posts about that, and I'm sure I can figure it out. Thanks, pljvaldez!

HappyTux, even though I used the regular apt-get method, thanks for the suggestion, which makes perfect sense and I'm sure would have worked. I'll have to remember about apt-file in the future, I'm sure it will come in handy.

HappyTux · 08-03-2006, 12:47 AM

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Originally Posted by JmanA9

Isolating my apt sources to only the stable repositories worked. Amarok is now installed! The only problem is that it freezes after the second track played, but I've seen posts about that, and I'm sure I can figure it out. Thanks, pljvaldez!

HappyTux, even though I used the regular apt-get method, thanks for the suggestion, which makes perfect sense and I'm sure would have worked. I'll have to remember about apt-file in the future, I'm sure it will come in handy.

It does come in handy and to be frank the version of amarok you are trying to use never did work for me either I had the same problem one track then freeze. I only every had success when the version 1.4 came out you may want to see if www.backports.org has it they have newer packages built so they will install on sarge.