Re: [gentoo-user] sound (?) but no sound

On Friday 22 June 2007, Alex Schuster wrote:
> Alan McKinnon writes:
> > It would appear that you have installed the kdemultimedia package.
> > That's a monlithic one, and it WILL install noatun, which requires
> > arts.
>
> I also have kdemultimedia installed, but not noatun.
>
> root@knork ~ --> eix -I kdemultimedia
> [I] kde-base/kdemultimedia
> Available versions: (3.5) 3.5.5 ~3.5.6 ~3.5.7
> Installed versions: 3.5.5(3.5)(20:25:05 04/19/07)(-akode
> alsa -arts -audiofile -debug -elibc_FreeBSD
> encode -flac -gstreamer -kdeenablefinal -mp3 -theora vorbis
> xine -xinerama)
> Homepage: http://www.kde.org/
> Description: KDE multimedia apps: Noatun, KsCD, Juk...
>
> root@knork ~ --> eix -I noatun
> No matches found.
>
> root@knork ~ --> equery depends noatun
> [ Searching for packages depending on noatun... ]
>
> Alex

You do have noatun binaries installed, but it's part of the huge humunguous kdemultmedia package, which is NOT a meta package

If you install kdemultimedia-meta instead, it installs a bunch of individual packages, one of which is kde-base/noatun

alan

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