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sam

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Registered: 2008-05-23

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[Solved] Downgrading Songbird in AUR

I use songbird to listen to music and the latest release (1.2) doesn't start, it appears to be a gstreamer bug that has been reported but not solved.  So I am trying to downgrade to version 1.12, but I don't have the old package build and I can't just modify the latest package build because I don't know the filepath (and I can't figure it out) online.  I tried using the svn songbird package, but syncing is not working very well.  I am wondering if there is a way to obtain an old pkgbuild or package.

Last edited by sam (2009-07-03 17:41:21)

Stefan Husmann

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Registered: 2007-08-07

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Re: [Solved] Downgrading Songbird in AUR

see http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Downgrade_packages

sam

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Re: [Solved] Downgrading Songbird in AUR

see http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Downgrade_packages

The link is for downgrading official packages (core, extra,etc), not packages from AUR.  Songbird (surprisingly) isn't popular enough to be in the community repo.  A new package version is in now in AUR, which involves recompiling gstreamer-python, and songbird now works agaoin.

test1000

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Re: [Solved] Downgrading Songbird in AUR

you can "fix" that issue by removing gstreamer0.10-python which worked for me(remember to delete .songbird2 first).

edit: oops! didn't see that last post..

Last edited by test1000 (2009-07-02 08:12:31)

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arkham

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Re: [Solved] Downgrading Songbird in AUR

I "fixed" the problem by uploading an older version of gstreamer0.10-python called "gstreamer0.10-python-songbird" that conflicts and provides gstreamer0.10-python=0.10.14
Everything works in my system, and I hope it does work for you too

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sam

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Re: [Solved] Downgrading Songbird in AUR

I "fixed" the problem by uploading an older version of gstreamer0.10-python called "gstreamer0.10-python-songbird" that conflicts and provides gstreamer0.10-python=0.10.14
Everything works in my system, and I hope it does work for you too

Thats exactly what I did and it worked for me as well.  Thank you for adopting the package, I heavily really on songbird for my music needs.  The only thing I noticed during the upgrade is that there is no songbird icon in the main menu or in gnome-do, I'm not sure if its a package thing or upstream.

arkham

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Re: [Solved] Downgrading Songbird in AUR

Thats exactly what I did and it worked for me as well.  Thank you for adopting the package, I heavily really on songbird for my music needs.  The only thing I noticed during the upgrade is that there is no songbird icon in the main menu or in gnome-do, I'm not sure if its a package thing or upstream.

I made a mistake while re-writing the PKGBUILD. Tell me if the latest version works

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sam

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Re: [Solved] Downgrading Songbird in AUR

Thats exactly what I did and it worked for me as well.  Thank you for adopting the package, I heavily really on songbird for my music needs.  The only thing I noticed during the upgrade is that there is no songbird icon in the main menu or in gnome-do, I'm not sure if its a package thing or upstream.

I made a mistake while re-writing the PKGBUILD. Tell me if the latest version works

Yep that did the trick, thanks.