SOLVED - Hosed Amarok updating to beta package

[TheBigAmbulance]

I'm having a hard time trying to find a new app that handles media devices. In desperation, I tried updating Amarok to the latest beta release following these instructions:
http://www.sucka.net/2009/09/how-to-...eta-backports/
So, in short I did the following:

add the following two lines to /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb [url]http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/beta/ubuntu[/url] karmic main
deb-src [url]http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/beta/ubuntu[/url] karmic main

Add the trusted key for this repository:

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 8AC93F7A

update the package lists:

sudo apt-get update

Purge Amarok:

sudo apt-get remove --purge amarok
sudo apt-get autoremove --purge

And now install the latest Amarok:

sudo apt-get install amarok

But this last step is giving me a headache. It looks like some libs aren't installed

root@dpich-M6400:/home/dpich# apt-get install amarok
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
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.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 amarok: Depends: amarok-utils (= 2:2.1.80-0ubuntu2~ppa1) but it is not going to be installed
     Depends: libgcrypt11 (>= 1.4.2) but 1.4.1-2ubuntu1 is to be installed
     Depends: libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.17.10) but 2.16.1-0ubuntu2 is to be installed
     Depends: liblastfm0 but it is not installable
     Depends: libmtp8 (>= 0.3.1) but 0.3.0-1ubuntu3 is to be installed
     Depends: libplasma3 (>= 4:4.3.1-0ubuntu1) but 4:4.3.1-0ubuntu1~jaunty1~ppa1 is to be installed
     Depends: libqt4-phonon (>= 4.5.1) but it is not installable
     Depends: libstdc++6 (>= 4.4.0) but 4.3.3-5ubuntu4 is to be installed
     Depends: libstreamanalyzer0 (>= 0.7.0) but 0.6.4-0ubuntu2 is to be installed
     Depends: libstreams0 (>= 0.7.0) but 0.6.4-0ubuntu2 is to be installed
     Depends: libqtscript4-core but it is not installable
     Depends: libqtscript4-gui but it is not installable
     Depends: libqtscript4-network but it is not installable
     Depends: libqtscript4-xml but it is not installable
     Depends: libqtscript4-sql but it is not installable
     Depends: libqtscript4-uitools but it is not installable
E: Broken packages
root@dpich-M6400:/home/dpich#

What should I do now?

[kubicle]

Re: Hosed Amarok updating to beta package

add the following two lines to /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb [url]http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/beta/ubuntu[/url] karmic main
deb-src [url]http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/beta/ubuntu[/url] karmic main

You probably want:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/beta/ubuntu jaunty main

if you use jaunty

(the latest amarok goes into the main karmic repos)

EDIT: oops, I'll take that back...looks like there is no amarok in the jaunty beta ppa

[TheBigAmbulance]

Re: Hosed Amarok updating to beta package

Thanks for the assitance!

So the latest Amarok (2.2 Beta 1) is not installable on Jaunty? I did what you stated, and now I think I'm back to Amarok 2.1.

EDIT: heh, that's alright!

root@dpich-M6400:/home/dpich# amarok --version
Qt: 4.5.2
KDE: 4.3.1 (KDE 4.3.1)
Amarok: 2.1
root@dpich-M6400:/home/dpich#

Is there any way to get Amarok 2.2 Beta 1 installed on Kubuntu other than building it from source?

[kubicle]

Re: Hosed Amarok updating to beta package

So the latest Amarok (2.2 Beta 1) is not installable on Jaunty?

At least not from the karmic beta ppa, so it seems (looks like it depends on a number of "karmic" libraries)

I guess you could search the ppas for amarok in case someone has built the beta version for jaunty:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ppas?name_filter=amarok

Or you may wait until, 2.2 is released, I'm sure someone will backport it to jaunty.

[TheBigAmbulance]

Re: Hosed Amarok updating to beta package

Yeah, that is what I think I might do.

Either that, or I will install Amarok 1.4.10.

Thanks for your help.

[ukchucktown]

Re: SOLVED - Hosed Amarok updating to beta package

I did a test install of 2.2 from source on Jaunty and it's a pain to compile. It has a dependency on one package that is not part of Jaunty even with KDE 4.3.1. If you replace that package it will hose some other packages. I would not install 2.2 until you upgrade to Karmic.