Missing DBUS depenendies for amarok

[Barry Shilliday]

Binary package hint: amarok

When installing amarok on Ubuntu (dapper or edgy) there is no dependency on kdebase-kio-plugins. This is required for the dbus functionality. Without it you cannot use media devices with amarok.

Manually installing kdebase-kio-plugins also pulls in libdbus-qt-1-1c2, which is also needed.

[Christian Holtje (docwhat)]

I'll second this.

I spent a while trying to figure out why my media device (aka an ipod running rockbox) wasn't being detected. When you clicked autodetect devices in the settings dialog you get a message telling you to try:
dcop kded mediamanager fullList

This would return "call failed" for me. Since I run gnome and am not familiar with KDE's dcop stuff, I had to figure out how to trouble shoot this.

In the end I discovered that "dcop kded kded loadedModules" didn't show mediamanager and that I had to install this missing dependency to load it via "dcop kded kded loadModule mediamanager".

After that it properly detected media devices.

Ciao!

[Yuriy Kozlov (yuriy-kozlov)]

On Edgy and Feisty, amarok recommends kdemultimedia-kio-plugins, and recommends are installed by default.

[Barry Shilliday (teppic74)]

That's correct, but Amarok requires kdebase-kio-plugins and libdbus-qt and will not work with media devices without them.

[Andrew Ash (ash211)]

So you would like a dependency on kdebase-kio-plugins added to amarok?

[Barry Shilliday (teppic74)]

Amarok won't fully work without it, so it should be at least a suggested package I think.

[Sarah Kowalik (hobbsee-deactivatedaccount)]

we'll grab this in 1.4.5

[Sarah Kowalik (hobbsee-deactivatedaccount)]

fixed in 1.4.5 packages