Amarok 2 Doesn't Work after upgrade to Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty beta

i'm using Jaunty and i'm listen amarok-kde4 in standard Ubuntu (gnome) right now.

So please be sure your Ubuntu is fully updated upgraded...

Open a Terminal from the menu Applications → Accessories → Terminal and type:
(if the system ask you a password give your user password, you will not see nothing when you type it, then press enter)

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo aptitude dist-upgrade

sudo aptitude install amarok-kde4

sudo apt-get autoremove

Then if you are still in trouble with your amarok please remove the amarok settings still using terminal, type:

sudo rm -fr .kde

then run amarok from menu Applications → Sound and video ... twice (might be you will get errors the first time you run amarok)

Hope this helps

Hi,

Tried all your commands below and still will not work. When I open I
get message, see attached screen shot.

Thanks

On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 02:19 +0000, marcobra wrote:

> Your question #66800 on amarok in ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/amarok/+question/66800
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> marcobra proposed the following answer:
> i'm using Jaunty and i'm listen amarok-kde4 in standard Ubuntu (gnome)
> right now.
>
> So please be sure your Ubuntu is fully updated upgraded...
>
> Open a Terminal from the menu Applications → Accessories → Terminal and type:
> (if the system ask you a password give your user password, you will not see nothing when you type it, then press enter)
>
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get upgrade
> sudo aptitude dist-upgrade
>
> sudo aptitude install amarok-kde4
>
> sudo apt-get autoremove
>
> Then if you are still in trouble with your amarok please remove the
> amarok settings still using terminal, type:
>
> sudo rm -fr .kde
>
> then run amarok from menu Applications → Sound and video ... twice
> (might be you will get errors the first time you run amarok)
>
> Hope this helps
>

You can't attach screen shot here...

Thank you

Colin, amarok2 in januty not called amarok-kde4 , so you need to remove amarok-kde4 first then install amarok,
apt-get remove --purge amarok-kde4
apt-get autoremove --purge
apt-get install amarok

Colin,
You might try some of the suggestions here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1097391.html
I got mine to work by installing systemsettings and messing around with the preferred devices and backend tabs.

This worked for me (from previous post link):
"This is how i fixed it:

1. Start synaptic package manager
2. Remove phonon-backend-gstreamer (will also uninstall amarok)
3. Install phonon-backend-xine
4. Reboot (Donẗ know if this is necessary)
5. Install amarok via synaptic.
6. Reboot"
reboot/logout is necessary, phonon lib needs restart.

I can confirm that nagos' method worked for me. I use the terminal:

sudo apt-get remove --purge phonon-backend-gstreamer
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get install phonon-backend-xine
sudo apt-get install amarok

Thanks!

I can`t upgrade my Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop system.

I try : sudo apt-get update

everything works ok then:

sudo apt-get upgrade

then i get an error:

****************************************************************************************************************
(Reading database ... 143937 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace apturl 0.3.3ubuntu1 (using .../apturl_0.3.3ubuntu1.1_all.deb) ...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 2190, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 2184, in main
    rv = action.run(global_options)
  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 1638, in run
    runtimes = get_installed_runtimes(with_unsupported=True)
  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 276, in get_installed_runtimes
    default_version = pyversions.default_version(version_only=True)
  File "/usr/share/pycentral-data/pyversions.py", line 172, in default_version
    raise ValueError, "/usr/bin/python does not match the python default version. It must be reset to point to %s" % debian_default
ValueError: /usr/bin/python does not match the python default version. It must be reset to point to python2.6
dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 2190, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 2184, in main
    rv = action.run(global_options)
  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 1638, in run
    runtimes = get_installed_runtimes(with_unsupported=True)
  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 276, in get_installed_runtimes
    default_version = pyversions.default_version(version_only=True)
  File "/usr/share/pycentral-data/pyversions.py", line 172, in default_version
    raise ValueError, "/usr/bin/python does not match the python default version. It must be reset to point to %s" % debian_default
ValueError: /usr/bin/python does not match the python default version. It must be reset to point to python2.6
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/apturl_0.3.3ubuntu1.1_all.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 2190, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 2184, in main
    rv = action.run(global_options)
  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 1472, in run
    runtimes = get_installed_runtimes()
  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 276, in get_installed_runtimes
    default_version = pyversions.default_version(version_only=True)
  File "/usr/share/pycentral-data/pyversions.py", line 172, in default_version
    raise ValueError, "/usr/bin/python does not match the python default version. It must be reset to point to %s" % debian_default
ValueError: /usr/bin/python does not match the python default version. It must be reset to point to python2.6
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/apturl_0.3.3ubuntu1.1_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
**************************************************************************************************************

I don`t get it...in /usr/share/python/debian_defaults

# the default python version
default-version = python2.6

# all supported python versions
supported-versions = python2.5, python2.6

# formerly supported python versions
old-versions = python2.3, python2.4

# unsupported versions, including older versions
unsupported-versions = python2.3, python2.4

Any ideea how to fix???

Now i can`t install any package.... :(

sorry for the question in wrong place.

can i install amarok 1.4 on ubuntu 9.04?

After mucking about with Amarok 2 on 3 different notebooks I deleted the
program and loaded Quod Libet and bingo - worked straight up. Correctly
scanned all my music collection and played without any "mods", "tweaks"
etc

Are you sick of audio players that think they know how to organize your
music for you? Do other media libraries choke and die after a mere
10,000 songs? Do you often find yourself thinking Boy, I wish I could
grep my music? Or are you just looking for something that can tag your
audio files?

Quod Libet & Ex Falso

Quod Libet is a GTK+-based audio player written in Python. It's designed
around the idea that you know how to organize your music better than we
do. It lets you make playlists based on regular expressions (don't
worry, regular searches work too). It lets you display and edit any tags
you want in the file. And it lets you do this for all the file formats
it supports -- Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, MP3, Musepack, and MOD.

Quod Libet easily scales to libraries of thousands of songs. It also
supports most of the features you expect from a modern media player,
like Unicode support, multimedia keys, and tag editing.

Ex Falso is a program that uses the same tag editing backend as Quod
Libet, but isn't connected to an audio player. If you're perfectly happy
with your favorite player and just want something that can handle
tagging, Ex Falso is for you.

Ex Falso and Quod Libet have been tested on many GNU/Linux
distributions, and we've heard it can run on FreeBSD. Anywhere with GTK+
2.10, Python, and an OSS or ALSA compatible audio device should be able
to use it.

sudo apt-get install quodlibet

On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 16:18 +0000, Roman Isaev wrote:

> Your question #66800 on amarok in ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/amarok/+question/66800
>
> Roman Isaev proposed the following answer:
> can i install amarok 1.4 on ubuntu 9.04?
>

sudo aptitude install quodlibet quodlibet-ext quodlibet-plugins

On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 16:18 +0000, Roman Isaev wrote:

> Your question #66800 on amarok in ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/amarok/+question/66800
>
> Roman Isaev proposed the following answer:
> can i install amarok 1.4 on ubuntu 9.04?
>

nagos' method worked for me after i tried bunch of others. finally Amarok is working.

I used Barney_1's method and it cleared up my problems perfectly.