[Solved] Amarok v2.8 doesn't start

omeringen · 2013-08-21 15:45:43

Hi,
With the last Amarok update (v2.8), i am getting a notification at startup :

Amarok could not find any collection plugins. It is possible that Amarok is installed under the wrong prefix, please fix your installation using:
$ cd /path/to/amarok/source-code/
$ su -c "make uninstall"
$ cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config --prefix` && su -c "make install"
$ kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental
$ amarok
More information can be found in the README file. For further assistance join us at #amarok on irc.freenode.net.

This had happened before : https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=121670

Last edited by omeringen (2013-09-18 19:15:20)

gnumdk · 2013-08-21 16:18:01

kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental ?

omeringen · 2013-08-21 17:25:57

Yeah i tried it, still same.

arojas · 2013-08-21 18:07:33

Is your system fully up to date?

omeringen · 2013-08-21 18:23:54

Yes it is.

omeringen · 2013-09-18 18:56:45

Looks like it's only me having this issue. Any more recommendations ?

karol · 2013-09-18 19:01:24

Have you tried switching phonon-backend: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 00#p957600 ?

Edit there's also https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/36919 but it seems unrelated.

Last edited by karol (2013-09-18 19:06:48)

omeringen · 2013-09-18 19:15:06

Ah. Removing amarok-applet folders at ~/.kde4/share/apps/ solved the issue. Thanks for the answers.

Last edited by omeringen (2013-09-18 19:57:11)

karol · 2013-09-18 19:19:15

Do you think the amarok article in the wiki https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Amarok would benefit from a troubleshooting section outlining how to deal with this issue?

I don't use KDE, but I see that removing ~/.kde comes up pretty often, seems it's needed on every update.

omeringen · 2013-09-18 19:56:55

@karol,
Yeah, removing ~/.kde solves most of the problems but you lose the customization you have done, so it's the last choice.
For most of us, removing config folders/files is the first thing which comes to mind. But i only removed "~/.kde4/share/apps/amarok" first, then i realized that there is some more folders related to Amarok at "~/.kde4/share/config/".
A quick search at home dir is useful on removing config files.

Last edited by omeringen (2013-09-18 20:00:18)

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[Solved] Amarok v2.8 doesn't start

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