Support #869
Can't get Audacious 3.10.1 to work on Xubuntu 16.04
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Description
Tried to install 3.10.1 over an earlier install of 3.7.2 on Xubuntu 16.04. The earlier ver from repositories worked but now the app doesn't start at all. Followed instructions in the install file: configure, make, make install, make clean, make distclean. Package audacious-3.10.1 went through all of the above steps without any error messages:
https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/gSNcW5PsVm/
However, package audacious-plugins-3.10.1 gave 2 warnings and an error at configure due to 3 missing dependencies and make failed right away:
https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/DNKxMjkRRp/
Questions:
1. Can ver 3.10.1 be installed over an earlier ver or must the older ver be uninstalled first?
2. If uninstall first is needed, is it also needed to remove the config data?
3. If config data must be removed as well, is it enough to just manually delete folder ~/.config/audacious/ or must more be done for a "deeper" cleaning (for example, since 3.7.2 was installed from Ubuntu repos, maybe it's necessary to purge with "dpkg -P audacious")?
4. Since Audacious code is brocken up into two sepparate packages, can the app run after installing just the audacious-3.10.1 package without the plugins package or must both be installed before anything will work?
5. Ver 3.7.2 didn't seem to work with visualizations of projectM. For projectM to work with 3.10.1, must anything be compiled differently?
6. Ver 3.7.2 didn't advance automaticaly through a playlist (only manually after clicking "forward"), has this issue been fixed by/in ver 3.10.1?
History
#1
Updated by John Lindgren almost 6 years ago
Updated by Is there a particular reason you want to install from source? Various PPAs have builds of Audacious available, for example this one:
http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2018/12/audacious-3-10-1-released-with-important-fixes-how-to-install/
#2
Updated by tron z almost 6 years ago
Updated by The links on Audacious download page did not list anything newer than 3.9, so I decided to build from source. The app didn't start. Then I uninstalled audacious and installed the ppa from your link above - same result. Tried to clear config data from before and restart - no diff. In all cases, task manager showed audacious trying to start and then terminating. Trying to start from terminal with command "audacious" gave:
ERROR plugin-init.cc:147 [start_required]: No output plugin found.
(Did you forget to install audacious-plugins?)
Aborted (core dumped)
Yet,command "apt-cache policy audacious audacious-plugins 2>&1" gave:
audacious:
Installed: 3.10.1-0build2~ubuntu16.04
Candidate: 3.10.1-0build2~ubuntu16.04
Version table:
*** 3.10.1-0build2~ubuntu16.04 500
500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntuhandbook1/apps/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
3.6.2-2 500
500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 Packages
audacious-plugins:
Installed: 3.10.1-0build2~ubuntu16.04
Candidate: 3.10.1-0build2~ubuntu16.04
Version table:
*** 3.10.1-0build2~ubuntu16.04 500
500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntuhandbook1/apps/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
3.6.2-2ubuntu1 500
500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe amd64 Packages
3.6.2-2build1 500
500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 Packages
Therefore, it seems either the ppa is broken or there is a problem with some plugin which might explain why building from source also gave a problem at a plugin stage.
Suggestions?
#3
Updated by John Lindgren almost 6 years ago
- Status changed from New to Closed
I updated the "cheat sheet" for installing from source on Ubuntu:
https://redmine.audacious-media-player.org/boards/1/topics/788
You can try following that.
I don't have any other suggestions, sorry.
