[How-To] Install Amarok with MTP-Device Support

[jrjazzman]

When I execute this:

./configure --with-njb --with-mtp --prefix=`kde-config --prefix`

I get this:

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

Know how I can fix this?

[ButteBlues]

Ah! I found one step in the script but not in the list of things!

Run

sudo apt-get build-dep amarok

before the ./configure.

[jrjazzman]

Are these make errors normal?

make[2]: Entering directory `/home/jross/dls/amarok/amarok/amarok-1.4.3/amarok'
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `all'. Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jross/dls/amarok/amarok/amarok-1.4.3/amarok'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jross/dls/amarok/amarok/amarok-1.4.3'
make: *** [all] Error 2

[ButteBlues]

It seems as if they had issues doing the make. Try running "sudo make install" and then completing as normal.

[jrjazzman]

It seems as if they had issues doing the make. Try running "sudo make install" and then completing as normal.

The result is:

make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jross/dls/amarok/amarok/amarok-1.4.3/amarok'
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jross/dls/amarok/amarok/amarok-1.4.3/amarok'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

[ButteBlues]

huh.

make clean
./configure --with-njb --with-mtp --prefix=`kde-config --prefix`
sudo make
sudo make install

[jrjazzman]

I had to run configure as root. For some reason all the dirs were owned by root. Suppose I could have done a chown an all. Thanks for the help. Unfortunately, my creative zen micro still won't detect. In "media devices", should MTP be in the drop down list? I don't see it.

edit: Just noticed that that help > about amarok shows a oct 15 build date. I think apt-get installed the repo's amarok over the custom built version when I ran apt-get install amarok-xine.

[ButteBlues]

I had to run configure as root. For some reason all the dirs were owned by root. Suppose I could have done a chown an all. Thanks for the help. Unfortunately, my creative zen micro still won't detect. In "media devices", should MTP be in the drop down list? I don't see it.

edit: Just noticed that that help > about amarok shows a oct 15 build date. I think apt-get installed the repo's amarok over the custom built version when I ran apt-get install amarok-xine.

That shouldn't be the case. Amarok-xine should just be the XINE engine.

Go to Tools > Configure > Media Devices and see if MTP Device is one of the listed options.

[jrjazzman]

That shouldn't be the case. Amarok-xine should just be the XINE engine.

Go to Tools > Configure > Media Devices and see if MTP Device is one of the listed options.

amarok-xine depends on amarok according to synaptic. I uninstalled both then reinstalled from the source, skipping the install of amarok-xine. Then in amarok, under Settings > Configure Amarok > Media Devices, sda4 is listed, but it's set to "do not handle" and MTP is not in the list of available choices.

sda4 is an unmounted partition I forgot about, not sure why amarok thinks it's a music device.

[ButteBlues]

amarok-xine depends on amarok according to synaptic. I uninstalled both then reinstalled from the source, skipping the install of amarok-xine. Then in amarok, under Settings > Configure Amarok > Media Devices, sda4 is listed, but it's set to "do not handle" and MTP is not in the list of available choices.

sda4 is an unmounted partition I forgot about, not sure why amarok thinks it's a music device.

That is odd. Perhaps only 1.4.4 has proper support for MTP.