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

[Jarn]

It appears the newest Amarok in the repos, 1.4.5, is packaged with MTP functionality.

[Brokenrgv]

we talking feisty or edgy repo's ??

[lamalex]

1. It needs a compatible Libmtp version.

2. The amarok in Feisty repos is built with mtp support. Just not the Edgy one.


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For edgy, please try 1.2.0. It accounts for Edgy not being compatible with certain libs.

I'll be looking through for those bugs.

mine doesnt have it... I'm running herd 3, and I installed it from the repo.

[ButteBlues]

mine doesnt have it... I'm running herd 3, and I installed it from the repo.

It doesn't now, but it DID. You must understand the amarok in the repos updates often.

[Jarn]

Mine had MTP support when I installed it yesterday. Edgy.

[rachii]

i'm on a newly installed feisty. i have libmtp and amarok 1.4.5 installed. if i type mtp-detect it reads the device just fine it is listed in libmtp.rules and matches the ID's of lsusb.., however inside of amarok MTP is not an option when configuring a new media device

any ideas?

thank you


nevermind, i rebuilt amarok with the command:

./configure --with-libnjb --with-libmtp --with-libgpod --prefix=`kde-config --prefix`

and now it recognizes mtp

[anaspeople]

HOw exactly did you do it?

[ButteBlues]

HOw exactly did you do it?

Build libmtp 0.1.3 as directed here: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=199250.

Then, open up the terminal.

Run the following (ignore the $: in front of any given line when copying/pasting):

$: sudo apt-get update
$: sudo apt-get upgrade
$: sudo apt-get build-dep amarok
$: wget -C http://kde.mirrors.tds.net/pub/kde/stable/amarok/1.4.5/src/amarok-1.4.5.tar.bz2
$: tar -jxf amarok-1.4.5.tar.bz2
$: cd amarok-1.4.5/
$: ./configure --with-libnjb --with-libmtp --with-libgpod --prefix=`kde-config --prefix`
$: sudo make
$: sudo make install

Once all that's done, assuming none of it exited with errors, Amarok should work with MTP.

[anaspeople]

Thanks for answering, anyways I get these problems:
First I'm using Gnome so when I do this

$: sudo apt-get build-dep amarok

I get 58MBs of dependency packages which decompressed mean 172MB. I don't think I need many of them, but wonder which one I really need.

Sencondly I managed to download using wget -c but when I do

$: ./configure --with-libnjb --with-libmtp --with-libgpod --prefix=`kde-config --prefix`

I get

checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.3 and < 4.0) (headers and libraries) not found. Please check your installation!
For more details about this problem, look at the end of config.log.

And consecuntly when I try to do make I get:

make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.

Any suggestions?

[ButteBlues]

You need to apt-get build-dep amarok and install all the files needed to build amarok.