Using JuK on Fedora Core
Many Fedora Core users of KDE have realized by now that the amazing iTunes-esque jukebox application JuK is not packaged with the rest KDE. To get it up and running, read below!
To extract JuK and the other features of the kdemultimedia package it will require the following packages:
- lame (ATRPMS)
- lame-devel (ATRPMS)
- taglib (FC Extras)
- taglib-devel (FC Extras)
- zlib-devel
- XFree86-devel
- kdelibs-devel
- kdebase-devel
- libjpeg-devel
- gcc-c++
- glibc-devel
- perl
- libvorbis-devel
- libtheora-devel
- audiofile-devel
- glib2-devel
- libmng-devel
- alsa-lib-devel >= 1.0.2
- cdparanoia-devel
- libmusicbrainz >= 2.1
- libtunepimp (Manual Install)
Once you have all of the above installed, head over to the Fedora website and download the kdemultimedia SRPM. Install it with:
rpm -ivh kdemultimedia-3.5.0-0.1.fc4.src.rpm
Now change to the directory “/usr/src/redhat/SPECS” and edit kdemultimedia.spec with your favorite text editor. Make sure to set the following:
%define build_mpeglib 1
%define juk 1
Once the file is updated, run the command:
rpmbuild -ba /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/kdemultimedia.spec
Expect some cranking for an hour or so! 
After it finishes up, you should have a fresh kdemultimedia RPM in “/usr/src/redhat/RPMS/”!
Uninstall the old RPMS and load up the new ones:
rpm -e --nodeps kdemultimedia
rpm -e --nodeps kdemultimedia-devel
rpm -ivh --nodeps /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/kdemultimedia-3.5.0-0.1.fc4.i386.rpm
rpm -ivh --nodeps /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/kdemultimedia-devel-3.5.0-0.1.fc4.i386.rpm
Now you have JuK available in the “Sound and Video” submenu of KDE! Enjoy!
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Mark Mascolino said,
January 29, 2006 at 4:13 pm
And who ever said using Linux was complicated.
If I ever get one of my boxes or my VMs rebuilt, I will certainly give this a try. Thanks for the instructions.
syncomm said,
January 29, 2006 at 4:45 pm
Hehehe! If you use a good end-user distro (like kUbuntu) you will be in luck, because JuK will be there and “just-work”. Unfortunately, RedHat has to keep very close to the ev0l mp3 regulations. By default there is _no_ mp3 support on any RedHat system.