[Rhythmbox-devel] rhythmbox

[Guy Stalnaker <jstalnak wisc edu>]

Hi,

A friend recently made me aware of rhythmbox and pointed me to your web 
site.  I have had great frustration trying to install it.

 From the home page, I understood this:

It is free software, designed to work well under the GNOME Desktop, and 
based on the powerful GStreamer media framework, or the Xine framework.

... to mean that rhythmbox works under GNOME and that it can use either 
the GStreamer media framework -or- the Xine framework.  Looking at the 
requirements, I decided to go with Xine.  So, I got the RedHat 9 xine 
rpms and installed them thus:

[nak@dhcppc1 installers]$ apt-cache search xine
...
xine-lib - Core library for the xine video player.
xine - A free multimedia player.
xine-skins - A collection of skins for the Xine video player.

I got the 0.6.8 version using an rpm found on 
http://yarrow.freshrpms.net/rpm.html?id=886

[nak@dhcppc1 installers]$ apt-cache search rhythmbox
rhythmbox - Music Management Application

I get the following error attempting to use rhythmbox:

[nak@dhcppc1 installers]$ INFO (13213: 0) Initializing GStreamer Core 
Library version 0.6.3
INFO (13213: 0) CPU features: (00000000) MMX SSE
INFO (13213: 0) registry: loaded global_registry in 0.220444 seconds
           (/var/cache/gstreamer-0.6/registry.xml)
rhythmbox: relocation error: rhythmbox: undefined symbol: 
ORBit_skel_class_register

[2]+  Exit 127                rhythmbox

I'm not sure what the ORBit_skel_class_register refers to.  I have 
checked, and the following is installed:

[nak@dhcppc1 installers]$ apt-cache search ORBit
ORBit - A high-performance CORBA Object Request Broker.
ORBit-devel - Development libraries, header files and utilities for ORBit.
ORBit2 - A high-performance CORBA Object Request Broker.
ORBit2-devel - Development libraries, header files and utilities for ORBit.

I have also tryed compiling the latest version 0.7x. Which, to be 
honest, is the one I want, as it is the first with iPod capability. 
Unfortunately, there are a host of problems with that approach:

checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking for                   gtk+-2.0 >= 2.2.2 
        libgnomeui-2.0                                  libglade-2.0 
                                 gnome-vfs-2.0 
       gnome-vfs-module-2.0                            libbonobo-2.0 
                    bonobo-activation-2.0... Package gtk+-2.0 was not 
found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gtk+-2.0.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'gtk+-2.0' found

configure: error: Library requirements (                  gtk+-2.0 >= 
2.2.2                               libgnomeui-2.0 
          libglade-2.0                                    gnome-vfs-2.0 
                                gnome-vfs-module-2.0 
         libbonobo-2.0 
bonobo-activation-2.0) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH 
environment variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so 
pkg-config can find them.

I attempted to find and install a version of gtk+-2x, and found only one 
rpm for it.  An install attempt yielded three screens full of dependency 
errors relating to installed components.

Any advice is appreciated.

Regards.

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Guy Stalnaker
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