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klik://amarok-svn-nightly

Monday, 7 November 2005  |  pipitas

Bonus not-FAQ:


Q: What is the cool klik-ification of the week?? A: Without even the slightest doubt, this would be klik://amarok-svn-nightly. There are input ingredients to the recipe: Eean provides these, Debian Sarge packages. He builds them every night from current amarok SVN. The resulting .cmg contains an embedded Xine engine. Dependencies are drawn into the .cmg from ftp://debian.tu-bs.de/ pool, via the magic of probono's server-side apt. For me this snapshot of amarok-1.4-SVN worked great even over an NX session (250 km distance). The amarok-svn-nightly.cmg file is about 9.1 MByte in size. The amarok playing NX server ran on SUSE-9.3, the local speakers were attached to a SUSE-8.2 box. Yes, the .debs build on Sarge resulted in a single .cmg file, working well on an alien distro. klik magic! However, the embedded Xine engine was not auto-discovered. I had to go through the settings to make it work. More testers still welcome. (Remember, you have to type "ian@monroe.nu" to start the download.)