Amarok/GettingStarted/Dependencies

DEPENDENCIES

Required

• KDE-Libs 4.8.4 + KDE-Base-runtime 4.8 (oxygen-icons) (or newer), http://www.kde.org
• Qt 4.8 (or newer), http://qt.nokia.com/
• TagLib 1.7 (or newer), Metadata tagging library, http://developer.kde.org/~wheeler/taglib.html, https://github.com/taglib/taglib
• TagLib Extras 1.0.1 (or newer), Support for metadata reading of additional file types, svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/kdesupport/taglib-extras
• MySQL 5.0 (or newer) Embedded: libmysqld compiled with fPIC, In-process database support
• QtScript Generator, Qt Bindings 0.1.0, Qt Bindings for QtScript for Amarok's scripting system, http://code.google.com/p/qtscriptgenerator/, http://qt.gitorious.org/qt-labs/qtscriptgenerator
• LibQCA 2.0.2 (or newer), Qt Cryptographic Architecture, http://delta.affinix.com/qca/

Optional

• iPod support requires:
  • libgpod 0.8.2 (or newer), http://www.gtkpod.org/libgpod/
  • GDKPixBuf 2.0 (or newer), For artwork support, http://library.gnome.org/devel/gdk-pixbuf/stable/
• libmtp 1.0.0 (or newer), MTP device support, http://libmtp.sourceforge.net/
• Mp3tunes.com integration (including syncronization) requires:
  • OpenSSL http://www.openssl.org
  • libxml2 http://xmlsoft.org
  • libcurl http://curl.haxx.se
  • Glib2 http://www.gtk.org
  • Loudmouth, the Jabber library, http://www.loudmouth-project.org/
  • Qt must be compiled with Glib enabled
• Liblastfm 1.0.3, for scrobbling, internet radio, and artist info, http://cdn.last.fm/client/liblastfm-1.0.3.tar.gz, https://github.com/eartle/liblastfm
• QJson 0.7 (or newer), Qt JSON Parser for the Playdar Collection, http://qjson.sourceforge.net/
• MySQL 5.0 (or newer) Server for external database support
• MusicBrainz-based audio fingerprint tag lookup requires:
  • FFmpeg 0.7.0 (or newer) - http://ffmpeg.org/
  • libavcodec & libavformat specifically
  • LibOFA - http://code.google.com/p/musicip-libofa/
• gpodder.net Podcast Service
  • libmygpo-qt 1.0.6 (or newer)
• Transcoding requires (at runtime):
  • FFmpeg 0.7.0 (or newer) - http://ffmpeg.org/
  • For all supported encoders to be available in Amarok, FFmpeg needs to support the following codecs:
    • libfaac (NOT just "aac")
    • alac
    • flac
    • libmp3lame (NOT just "mp3")
    • libvorbis (NOT just "vorbis")
    • wmav2
• CD support requires:
  • audiocd-kio - http://www.kde.org/ (part of KDE multimedia)
• Downloading songs from Amazon works best on non Windows systems using
  • clamz - https://code.google.com/p/clamz/
  • The official downloader should work fine on Windows, too. But it's broken on many Linux systems.
• Building tests require:
  • gmock 1.4 (or newer) - http://code.google.com/p/googlemock/ Beware, gmock has to be compiled separately for Amarok to work. Currently KDE has tests enabled by default, to circumvent this, one needs to use the following cmake argument: -DKDE4_BUILD_TESTS=OFF

Please note that if compiling from source you also need to install -dev/-devel versions of these packages, depending on your distribution.