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Since it might concern some of you, I have switched away from Gentoo. Although it has been great fun, I don’t have the time anymore to build everything from scratch. I came to the point where I want a distribution that “just works”.

For what it is worth, the choice of today seems to be ubuntu and since I’m a KDE fan I went with the kubuntu distro.

This means that I will not be working on the Amarok ebuild anymore. I really feel sorry for that, but porting portage to kubuntu just is too much of a problem for me. I am still willing to host the files here, if needed and they will be around for the months to come. If anyone wants to step in, feel free to contact me.

Current version: katapult-0.3.1

This is a very simple ebuild for katapult. Katapult is an application for KDE, written in C++, designed to allow faster access to applications, bookmarks, and other items. It is plugin-based, so it can launch anything that has a plugin for. Its display is driven by plugins as well, so its appearance is completely customizable. It was inspired by Quicksilver for OS X.
You can find more info here.

To use it:

• Download the package
• Check your /etc/make.conf and see what the value of your PORTDIR_OVERLAY variable is
• Change to one of your ‘overlay’ directories and execute:
  tar zxvf /path/to/katapult.tar.gz
• emerge katapult

Filed as Gentoo bug nr: 121721, seems it is a duplicate, and the ebuild already maintained by someone else… You can still use my ebuild, but I will not update it.

Current version: exscalibar-1.0.4.

Here you can find the latest ebuild for exscalibar. It will install support for the moodbar plugin used by amaroK.

To use it:

• Add the ‘moodbar’ use-flag to your /etc/make.conf
• Download the package
• Check your /etc/make.conf and see what the value of your PORTDIR_OVERLAY variable is
• Change to one of your ‘overlay’ directories and execute:
  tar zxvf /path/to/exscalibar.tar.gz
• download and install the latest amarok-svn ebuild (check here for information about the latest amaroK ebuild).

Filed as Gentoo bug nr: 121718

Update: exscalibar is now in portage. There is no need to download this ebuild anymore. The one in portage has a couple of additional features as well, so I encourage everyone to use that one.

As of today I will not maintain this ebuild anymore. Please have a look at this post for more details. I would like to take the chance to thank you all for the positive feedback you have always given me.

Current version: amarok-svn-1.4-r9

Here you can find the latest ebuild for amarok-svn. This ebuild will get the latest amaroK source code from subversion and build amaroK.

amaroK is a music player for Linux and Unix with an intuitive interface. amaroK makes playing the music you love easier than ever before - and looks good doing it.

Change list:

• 1.4-r9 I haven’t had a lot of time to work on anything except for my paid job lateley… But thanks to radfoj there is now a version that supports the updated build process.
• 1.4-r7 thanks to captain obvious and all the others who provided me with feedback (mainly during my holidays) I can now present you a new version with the following new features and or changes:
  - in sync (again) with the official amarok ebuild
  - rename of the moodbar use flag, it is now called exscalibar
  - as with the original release this build depends on xine
  - removed use flags for arts and gstreamer
  - included a use flag for gstreamer010, let me know if you have problems with it
  - included a use flag for ifp, which adds iriver support
  - included a use flag for aac
  - tunepimp now correctly depends on the musicbrainz use flag (minor bug)
• 1.4-r6 now depends on ruby, since the lyric scripts need it
• 1.4-r5 now fixes the checkout bug in portage. This bug caused a full checkout of subversion every time you emerged amaroK. For others (see the comments) it caused a complete non-working ebuild. Thanks go out to Anli for pointing it out and helping with the bug fixing with the Gentoo developers.
  For this to work you will need a very recent version of portage and probably a testing Gentoo environment as well (ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=”~????” in your /etc/make.conf).
• Works with the latest changes in the amaroK subversion repository. Versions before 1.4-r2 will not work with the current structure in subversion.
• Supports libgpod (ipod library) with the ‘ipod’ use-flag. You will need to have libgpod as well. Please check here to find out how to get this library.
• Supports exscalibar (or moodbar) with the ‘moodbar’ use-flag. You will need the exscalibar ebuild as well
• Now makes sure you can’t install it together with the ‘normal’ amaroK
• It now comes as a package you have to unpack into your portage overlay directory (no more ebuild amarok-svn-1.4-rx.ebuild digest).

To use:

• Download the package
• Check your /etc/make.conf and see what the value of your PORTDIR_OVERLAY variable is
• Change to one of your ‘overlay’ directories and execute:
  tar zxvf /path/to/amarok-svn.tar.gz
• Execute:
  emerge amarok-svn

Filed as Gentoo bug nr: 121717. This ebuild will never be in portage.

Current version: smartdj-1.0.

Here you can find the dependencies for Smart DJ, an amaroK script. With all these dependencies installed you can go ahead and install Smart DJ.

Smart DJ lets you find tracks based on how similar they sound to each other. It can also automatically add new tracks to your playlist based on how similar they are to what you’ve been listening to.

To use it:

• Download the package
• Check your /etc/make.conf and see what the value of your PORTDIR_OVERLAY variable is
• Change to one of your ‘overlay’ directories and execute:
  tar zxvf /path/to/smartdj.tar.gz
• Emerge all the ebuilds that are part of the package (there are no dependencies yet between the packages)
• You can now download and install the Smart DJ script with amaroK