amarok misbehaving [SOLVED]

[przxqgl]

now that i've got all the other stuff working, amarok is misbehaving. it says that all of my tracks are 0:00 minutes long, sometimes it will let me edit track details and sometimes it won't, even though all of the tracks are set with 644 permissions, and frequently i have to kill it from the terminal, because the menus cease to function.

i'm running lucid, KDE 4.5.3, and amarok 2.3.2, and my understanding is that these are known bugs that have been fixed in 2.4.0 but that lucid doesn't have something (KDE 4.6.0?) that 2.4.0 needs to run. (it turns out that's not true, lucid needs nothing to make 2.4.0 run, it just wasn't ready by the time lucid was released, and it was ready for maverick.)

i don't know how to get 2.4.0 without upgrading to maverick, which is a little more adventurous than i want to be right now, considering that i went through a four-day nightmare upgrading from karmic and i'm still a little gun-shy when it comes to upgrades, especially non-LTS upgrades.

any suggestions?

[przxqgl]

Re: amarok misbehaving

thanks to some incredible luck, i've managed to get amarok 2.4.0 included in the backports for lucid!

if you add backports to your sources.list:

deb [url]http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/url] lucid-backports main universe multiverse restricted

and then

sudo apt-get update

and

sudo apt-get -f dist-upgrade

you will get the 2.4.0 build of amarok...

you might have to rename your ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/mysqle directory to something else, and then completely rescan your collection.

it works. i'm happy!

[Snowhog]

Re: amarok misbehaving [SOLVED]

Be prepared for trouble latter on. Mixing release repo's is a very good way to introduce dependency hell to your system.

[kubicle]

Re: amarok misbehaving [SOLVED]

Mixing release repo's is a very good way to introduce dependency hell to your system.

That shouldn't be a (big) problem with the backports repository, as the packages are generally built against the libraries in the supported repositories (lucid-backports packages should depend on the libraries in lucid).

Of course, backports packages can sometimes affect upgrades (to the next version), but usually nothing that can't be handled.