I was trying to get the gstreamer engine installed for Amarok, and couldn't find it, so tried uninstalling, and was unsuccessful at getting rid of all the files when I did so. I reinstalled, tried again, and got advice from somone on the Ubuntu forums, and here's what happened:
At this point, I'm definitely pretty much ready to re-install Ubuntu, but not before I figure this part out.
Doug
. You need to add the Multiverse repository to /etc/apt/sources.list. Add the line deb http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper multiverse. Apparently you modify the nl part to the country you’re in, so mine was "us".
2. sudo apt-get update
3. sudo apt-get install libxine-extracodecs (This will install your mp3 support).
4. Shut down Amarok, then run AmaroK. You might need to restart the sound server with killall artsd, or reboot, but I found the mp3 support took effect straight away.
2. sudo apt-get update
3. sudo apt-get install libxine-extracodecs (This will install your mp3 support).
4. Shut down Amarok, then run AmaroK. You might need to restart the sound server with killall artsd, or reboot, but I found the mp3 support took effect straight away.
Thanks McSnickered, I tried adding that line, and replaced nl with us, as I"m in the US as well. But after that, I got this message after trying to restart adept:
Quote:
"The APT Database could not be opened! This may be caused by incorrect APT configuration or some similar problem. Try running apt-setup and apt-get update in terminal and see if it helps to resolve the problem."
I've tried a few sudo apt get commands to no avail, and now I"m stuck. Seems I keep digging my hole deeper, and deeeeeper. This is not my only problem with Kubuntu at the moment, so I may wind up doing a clean re-install after all this, and going back to standard Ubuntu, though it would be really good to learn as much as possible this time around, so I don't run into the same problems next time.
I actually wound up uninstalling Amarok before the adept move, and reinstalled it, but my entire database was still there, and it didn't install the way it did the first time, so I guess a bunch of config files were left over. I wanted it totally out of the system, and didn't know where to look for left over stuff. Amarok then acted strangly when it ran, as it kept on displaying a screen on the left asking to build its database, even after I did so several times, and restarted it.
Quote:
"The APT Database could not be opened! This may be caused by incorrect APT configuration or some similar problem. Try running apt-setup and apt-get update in terminal and see if it helps to resolve the problem."
I've tried a few sudo apt get commands to no avail, and now I"m stuck. Seems I keep digging my hole deeper, and deeeeeper. This is not my only problem with Kubuntu at the moment, so I may wind up doing a clean re-install after all this, and going back to standard Ubuntu, though it would be really good to learn as much as possible this time around, so I don't run into the same problems next time.
I actually wound up uninstalling Amarok before the adept move, and reinstalled it, but my entire database was still there, and it didn't install the way it did the first time, so I guess a bunch of config files were left over. I wanted it totally out of the system, and didn't know where to look for left over stuff. Amarok then acted strangly when it ran, as it kept on displaying a screen on the left asking to build its database, even after I did so several times, and restarted it.
Doug
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