MP3 "install-wizard" (somestimes) fails but reports success

[Finch]

Hi everybody,

This is for Amarok 1.4.7 on KDE 3.5.8 on Ubuntu 7.10.

When I tried to play an MP3 file, Amarok told me that it cannot currently play MP3 and helpfully offered to install MP3-support.
Oh, that's very nice! I clicked yes.
A few seconds later, it told me (something like): "MP3-support now installed, you need to restart Amarok".
I restarted Amarok and it started by telling me that it cannot play MP3 and again offered to install it for me.
Well... I did that a couple of times until I got bored ;-)

Shortly after that, I found the reason for this strange behavior: I had Synaptic already running so Amarok couldn't start it for me.

I'm pretty sure whatever Amarok tried to do for me returned with an error code and Amarok shouldn't have told me that everything was ok. This can be very confusing, right?

I think the "wizard" is very helpful, but it *should* display an error message if it fails...

One way would be checking the return code which "probably" (?) indicates the error (I sometimes get a message like "configuration database locked").
It would probably be better if you could check if the required package is installed. I don't remember exactly, but this is still "semi-manual", isn't it? What if the user changes the package or in some other way aborts the process?

Finch

[Sarah Kowalik (hobbsee-deactivatedaccount)]

This is true. Someone should fix this.

[Andrew Ash (ash211)]

It looks like there was a new version of Amarok uploaded on 3-27-08 to address just this issue [1]. Can you please check that the bug is still occurring and report back? Thanks

[1] https://edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/amarok

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

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