Running Amarok extracted from rpm (FC6 Extras)

[Michael Schwendt]

On 04/07/07, Mostafa Afgani <m.afgani.fedora at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I've been trying to run amarok extracted from a rpm (extras repo) on a
> machine where I don't have root access. I extracted the package and
> some of the missing dependencies under /tmp and added /tmp/usr/bin and
> /tmp/usr/lib to PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH respectively.
>
> When I run ./amarok, it runs without complaining about any missing
> libraries but just before launching it bails with an error that states
> that no suitable sound-engines could be found. I know for a fact that
> both xine and Gstreamer (with the required libs and plugins) are
> installed on this system.
>
> Any idea where the problem could be?

Perhaps you could trace the program during execution and see whether
it relies on any hardcoded non-relocatable paths?