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Amarok dissapeared in Buster

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Amarok dissapeared in Buster

#1 Post by kmchen »

Hi,
After complete Buster reinstall on a Stretch I discover that Amarok is not present anymore.

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root@kmcs:/home/kmc# apt search amarok
En train de trier... Fait
Recherche en texte intégral... Fait
clementine/stable,stable 1.3.1+git609-g623a53681+dfsg-1 amd64
  modern music player and library organizer

mpris-remote/stable,stable 0.0~1.gpb7c7f5c6-1.1 all
  command-line interface for mpris compatible media players

vorbisgain/stable,stable 0.37-2+b1 amd64
  add Replay Gain volume tags to Ogg Vorbis files

root@kmcs:/home/kmc# dpkg -l *amarok*
dpkg-query: aucun paquet ne correspond à *amarok*
root@kmcs:/home/kmc# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
# 

# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 10.1.0 _Buster_ - Official amd64 NETINST 20190908-01:07]/ buster main

#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 10.1.0 _Buster_ - Official amd64 NETINST 20190908-01:07]/ buster main

deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster main
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster main

deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main

# buster-updates, previously known as 'volatile'
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster-updates main
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster-updates main

# kmc_ac
deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ buster main contrib non-free

How can I install that package back ?

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#2 Post by stevepusser »

It was removed from Buster because of a rather trivial problem that just required a rebuild against a newer version of mariadb, but was then yanked from upstream before that rebuild took place as part of the effort there to remove all Qt 4 applications.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo ... bug=921194

Let me see if I can build a MX 19 version on generic Buster that you can also install.
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#3 Post by stevepusser »

Here are Buster compatible MX 19 packages, along with Stretch compatible MX 17 packages, of Amarok 2.9.0. Though the sources have been removed from Sid, you can still get them at snapshot.debian.org.

You need to install the amarok-common deb package, along with the amarok-utils and amarok debs for your architecture--in that order if one at a time with gdebi, or all at once with apt for local debs.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1M4aIG ... v390KX6Ira

I had to build the Stretch versions with my precious, precious backported gcc-8 in order to avoid a build failure on gcc-6 there, but they don't need anything newer than the stock Stretch runtime libraries. Funny how that works out sometimes.
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#4 Post by Soul Singin' »

stevepusser wrote:Here are Buster compatible MX 19 packages
Thank you for building these. I found them in the MX repository, but I was unable to add the repository to my sources.list because I cannot find the MX-19 public key. Could you please provide a link to it? Thanks in advance.

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#5 Post by pcalvert »

I downloaded the repo key from here:
http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/pool/main/m/m ... e-keyring/

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wget -c http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/pool/main/m/mx-archive-keyring/mx-archive-keyring_2018.2mx17_all.deb
And then I installed it using gdebi:

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# gdebi mx-archive-keyring_2018.2mx17_all.deb
After adding the MX Linux repo, aptitude suddenly wanted to upgrade some packages using the MX Linux repo. Since that behavior is undesirable, I had to use apt-pinning to prevent it. I am using Devuan ASCII; pure Debian may not have that problem.

This is my apt-pinning config:

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$ cat /etc/apt/preferences.d/mxrepo-pinning
Package: adobe-flashplugin
Pin: origin "mxrepo.com"
Pin-Priority: 100

Package: seamonkey
Pin: origin "mxrepo.com"
Pin-Priority: 100

Package: *
Pin: origin "mxrepo.com"
Pin-Priority: 50

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#6 Post by Hallvor »

If you are looking for a replacement, Strawberry is good.

https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org/
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#7 Post by Soul Singin' »

pcalvert wrote:I downloaded the repo key from here:
Thank you for tracking that one down for me.
pcalvert wrote:apt-pinning
Good tips! Thank you.
Hallvor wrote:If you are looking for a replacement, Strawberry is good.
Another good tip. Thank you. I've been using Clementine (from which Strawberry was forked). It does everything I need, but I'm nostalgic for my old friend.

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#8 Post by Soul Singin' »

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# dpkg -i mx-archive-keyring_2018.2mx17_all.deb
Works for Stretch, but not for Buster.

One solution is to allow insecure repositories in your /etc/apt/sources.list file:

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deb [ allow-insecure=yes ] http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ buster main
Nonetheless, I still could not install Amarok on Buster:

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# apt-get -s install amarok 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 amarok : Depends: libqtscript4-core but it is not installable
          Depends: libqtscript4-gui but it is not installable
          Depends: libqtscript4-network but it is not installable
          Depends: libqtscript4-sql but it is not installable
          Depends: libqtscript4-uitools but it is not installable
          Depends: libqtscript4-xml but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
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#9 Post by Soul Singin' »

Soul Singin' wrote:Nonetheless, I still could not install Amarok on Buster
The trick is to install Qt4 from Stretch. After doing that, I installed an Amarok package (2.9.0-1) that I had previously built myself.

Thanks for your help, everyone! . Amarok is now playing music on my machine! . :D

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#10 Post by stevepusser »

Thanks for catching that--I'm forwardporting qtscriptgenerator to MX 19 right now.

We also have Strawberry in the MX main and test repos: https://repology.org/project/strawberry/versions

It's a single deb package, so it would be easier to get the deb by clicking on the link and manually installing it.

I don't know if it will build on armhf (Pi) or arm64 architectures, but I now have those cross-compiling setups working in pbuilder, so if anyone wants those, I can give it a try.
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Hallvor wrote:If you are looking for a replacement, Strawberry is good.

https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org/
Man, thats crap!! (perhaps in ten years), for now I would suggest you better cantata player, or clementine... Im very happy with cantata
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gmusicbrowser ftw
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bester69 wrote:
Hallvor wrote:If you are looking for a replacement, Strawberry is good.

https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org/
Man, thats crap!! (perhaps in ten years), for now I would suggest you better cantanta player, or clementine... Im very happy with catanta
Your opinion is noted and will be mocked mercilessly. But you are entitled to have it, you know what they say about opinions. I find Strawberry to be rather good for what it is.
I do agree about Cantata, I like it a lot (my opinion :mrgreen: ). But mainly I prefer DeadBeef.

Amarok used to be my absolute favourite player a while back but it's Qt4 and Qt4 is fairly redundant now. If it were to be rewritten for Qt5 I would be the first to return to it.
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sunrat wrote:
bester69 wrote:
Hallvor wrote:If you are looking for a replacement, Strawberry is good.

https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org/
Man, thats crap!! (perhaps in ten years), for now I would suggest you better cantanta player, or clementine... Im very happy with catanta
Your opinion is noted and will be mocked mercilessly. But you are entitled to have it, you know what they say about opinions. I find Strawberry to be rather good for what it is.
I do agree about Cantata, I like it a lot (my opinion :mrgreen: ). But mainly I prefer DeadBeef.

Amarok used to be my absolute favourite player a while back but it's Qt4 and Qt4 is fairly redundant now. If it were to be rewritten for Qt5 I would be the first to return to it.
I never liked Amarok, I found it a extrange interface , very litle inteligible.. I gave it several chances but It was very extrange that program.. Clementine was very much clever and workable.. I think i tried DeadBeef eventually, but i think to remember it was buggy or poor as for features.. Im goint to try it now again to see..why would you prefer it over Cantata... Cantata is very stable,its a mpd client which means faster, and lower cpu..has podcasts and a lot of radio streams libraries embedded, even comes with a plugin for Soundcloud.. Furthermore it has a clean interface with system tray.
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dilberts_left_nut wrote:gmusicbrowser ftw
Ive just try it, and didnt like it very much, that thing is really crazy, It comes with an interface too configurable (littel intelligible), thought felt very stable and well done, you dont feel confortable with so many themes and configurations..but seems to have a lot of development behind
I would prefer a more serious player like audacious or foobar2000(wine/snap) for that kind of music player. In my case i use Cantata (mpd) for everithing.
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#16 Post by sunrat »

Anything can be strange until you understand them. Amarok was quite configurable.
DeadBeef has -
- Tabbed multiple playlists. Love these.
- Queue manager
- Output selectable for Pulse, ALSA etc.
- Basic tag editing
- Converter
- Customisable columns. I like to see media info and ReplayGain info for each track.
- Design mode which enables custom layouts
- ReplayGain support for playback and scanning/tagging (best I've seen, similar to foobar2000)
- Plugins including the amazing and beautiful Musical Spectrum display

As I said, I like Cantata and it's library management is great which is the one thing DeadBeef doesn't have but I have a system file manager and sensible organisation of music in that. Unfortunately Cantata's queue manager is weird, DeadBeef's is much better and I use it a lot.
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sunrat wrote:Anything can be strange until you understand them. Amarok was quite configurable.
DeadBeef has -
- Tabbed multiple playlists. Love these.
- Queue manager
- Output selectable for Pulse, ALSA etc.
- Basic tag editing
- Converter
- Customisable columns. I like to see media info and ReplayGain info for each track.
- Design mode which enables custom layouts
- ReplayGain support for playback and scanning/tagging (best I've seen, similar to foobar2000)
- Plugins including the amazing and beautiful Musical Spectrum display

As I said, I like Cantata and it's library management is great which is the one thing DeadBeef doesn't have but I have a system file manager and sensible organisation of music in that. Unfortunately Cantata's queue manager is weird, DeadBeef's is much better and I use it a lot.
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That's right, they have two main differente purposes, If you want to manage your library music, DeadBeef is a great choice , you might try as well gmusicbrowser, i tried it and seems very powerfull and complete for manage libray music, perhaps better than DeadBeef... And as for DeadBeef, for what i saw, its like a audacious's clone (what are the main differences between them?).. Other interesting option might be foobar2000 (wine/snap), the bad thing is wine-snaps takes so long to launch for the first time.. if not were for that It would be my first choice for manage library files music.

For just listen podacsts and streaming music, Cantata, in my opinion is a better choice.
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#18 Post by sunrat »

DeadBeef is more like a Linux version of Foobar2000 and I don't soil my system with Wine or snaps. Nothing like Audacious which I use for one-off plays but I dislike its library management. Cantata and Strawberry (or Clementine) are good for libraries. DeadBeef is not good for libraries but excellent for everything else. gmusicbrowser is fine as are Guayadeque and a number of orher players. They all play music!
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sunrat wrote:DeadBeef is more like a Linux version of Foobar2000 and I don't soil my system with Wine or snaps. Nothing like Audacious which I use for one-off plays but I dislike its library management. Cantata and Strawberry (or Clementine) are good for libraries. DeadBeef is not good for libraries but excellent for everything else. gmusicbrowser is fine as are Guayadeque and a number of orher players. They all play music!
I use catata (mpd) for one-off plays as well and for youtubes.

I made some easy scripts for that purpose.:

mpcplay.sh (open with: play music archive outside cantata library)

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#!/bin/bash
#
#export MYHOST='192.168.1.128' # or your MPD host
MPDM="/home/user/Música"
MPDOUT=$MPDM/playOUT
PATH="/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/home/user/.local/bin"
export MPD_HOST="192.168.1.128"
export PATH
mkdir $MPDM/playOUT
find $MPDOUT/ -xtype l -exec rm {} \;
#find $MPDOUT/ -type f -exec rm {} \;

if [ -z "$1" ]
 then
 echo "nada"
 exit
 else
ruta=$(readlink -f "$1")
ruta2=$(dirname "$ruta")
filename=$(basename "$1")
 fi
clear
#mpc clear
mpc pause


A=$(find $MPDM/ -type f -name "$filename" | egrep '.*')
if [ -z "$A" ]
 then
 #ln -sf "$1" $MPDOUT/ 
 ln -sf "$ruta" $MPDOUT/ 
 mpc update
 #Sleep si se copian en lugar de enlazar
sleep 1
mpc insert "file://$MPDOUT/$filename"
 echo "no esta"
 echo "Tocando: $MPDOUT/$filename"
  else
echo "ruta=$ruta"
echo "A=$A"
  #mpc insert "file://$MPDM/$filename"
  mpc insert "file://$A"
  echo "esta"
  echo "Tocando: $A"
  #echo "Tocando: $MPDM/$filename"
 fi
mpc next
mpc play
exit
cantata.sh (Ctrl+Alt+b) -> Open cantata player

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#!/bin/bash
#
export MPD_HOST=192.168.1.128
MPDP=/home/user/.mpd
mpd
cantata &
toggleMPD.sh (Ctrl+Alt+6) -> Toggle Cantata player (pause/play)

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#!/bin/bash
#
export MPD_HOST=192.168.1.128

mpd &
mpc toggle &

 PID=$(pgrep "cantata")
if [ -z "$PID" ] 
then
  if mpc status | grep playing >/dev/null      # If mpd is playing
then
 echo "playing"
 kstart --iconify cantata &> /dev/null
fi
 fi
exit
toggle2MPD.sh (Ctrl+Alt+7) -> Open Cantata playing next music

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#!/bin/bash
#
export MPD_HOST=192.168.1.128
MPDP=/home/user/.mpd

mpd &
mpc next
mpc play &

 PID=$(pgrep "cantata")
if [ -z "$PID" ] 
then
  if mpc status | grep playing >/dev/null      # If mpd is playing
then
 echo "playing"
 kstart --iconify cantata &> /dev/null
fi
 fi
 
 exit
youmpc.sh PLay/Loadf Youtube uri in Cantanta(mpd)

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#!/bin/bash
#
export MPD_HOST=192.168.1.128
MPDP=/home/user/.mpd
tmpurlfile=/tmp/youmpct.txt
#line="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04rGri8dICc"


youtube-dl -i --get-filename -f best -g "$1" > "$tmpurlfile"
# 250 Para Data Safe
#youtube-dl -i --get-filename -f 250 -g "$1" > "$tmpurlfile"
TAG=$(tail -n 1 "$tmpurlfile")
extinfurl=$(head -n 1 "$tmpurlfile")

mpduri="$extinfurl#"
cadena="{\"title\":\"$TAG\"}"
echo "$cadena"
mpduri="$mpduri$cadena"
echo "$mpduri"

mpc random off
mpc insert "$mpduri"
mpc next
mpc play &
mpc random on

  PID=$(pgrep "cantata")
if [ -z "$PID" ] 
then
cantata &
fi
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