Install Amarok on CentOS5/RHEL5

Now I prefer to build amarok by using SRPM from latest Fedora on CentOS/RHEL. Though I think the following method should still work, it's not the best solution. The first problem is that Fedora 6 is no longer supported and you get no security patches, the second is that some packages from Fedora 6 Extra repo conflicts with similar packages from RPMForge, which is a must for nearly all CentOS/RHEL systems.

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1. Install livna and rpmforge repo.


2. Add fedora-extras.repo:
   

   
   [fedora-extras]
   name=Fedora Extras 6 - i386
   #baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/6/i386/
   mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=extras-6&arch=i386
   gpgcheck=0
   enabled=1
   includepkgs=libnjb* libtunepimp* libifp* libmtp* libgpod* libofa* amarok* xine-lib wavpack
   

   
   You see, we should include necessary packages only.


3. Edit CentOS-Base.repo, add following lines:
   

   
   # exclude libgpod 0.4.0 to install libgpod 0.4.2 from FC6 repo for Amarok
   exclude=libgpod
   



4. Add fedora-updates.repo:
   

   
   [fedora-updates]
   name=Fedora Core 6 - $basearch - Updates
   #baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch/
   mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-fc6&arch=$basearch
   enabled=1
   gpgcheck=1
   gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora
   protect=0
   includepkgs=libnjb* libtunepimp* libifp* libmtp* libgpod* libofa* amarok*
   



5. Edit rpmforge.repo, add:
   

   
   exclude=xine-lib