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fiod

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Registered: 2007-04-02

Posts: 205

[SOLVED] Amarok stopped working (after downgrading from kde4)

Hey,

I played around a bit with kde4 (from tardo's repositories), then uninstalled it.

And now - amarok stopped working entirely.

When I type "amarok" in the terminal, I get:

amarok: error while loading shared libraries: libkdecore.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

So I tried setting it up manually in "/opt/kde/lib", and typed:

ln -s libkdecore.so.4.2.0 libkdecore.so.5"

Still no luck. Now the file exists:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      19 2008-01-22 21:35 libkdecore.so.5 -> libkdecore.so.4.2.0

but I keep getting the same error message.

Any thoughts?

thanks a lot,
fiod

Last edited by fiod (2008-01-25 18:30:04)

mcmillan

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Registered: 2006-04-06

Posts: 737

Re: [SOLVED] Amarok stopped working (after downgrading from kde4)

I'd say it would be a bad idea to be symbolic link things like that, but it might work since I have libkdecore.so.4 linked to the same thing.

What version of amarok do you have? I have 1.4.8-2 which is the newest in the extra repositories. If you have something else it might have gotten pulled in from testing or a kde4 repository.  Maybe try reinstalling amarok-base

fiod

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Registered: 2007-04-02

Posts: 205

Re: [SOLVED] Amarok stopped working (after downgrading from kde4)

Thanks!

Turns out that I did have amarok2-svn installed, as well as amarok-base.
Though I tried reinstalling amarok-base several times, it did not work.
After uninstalling amarok2-svn, resinstalling amarok-base and taglib, everything works like a charm.

Thanks again!
fiod