%general-entities; ]> $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ Phonon-&phonon-version; phonon Introduction to Phonon Phonon is the multimedia API for KDE4. It replaces the old aRts, that is no longer supported by KDE. Phonon needs either the GStreamer or VLC backend. &lfs76_checked; Package Information Download (HTTP): Download (FTP): Download MD5 sum: &phonon-md5sum; Download size: &phonon-size; Estimated disk space required: &phonon-buildsize; Estimated build time: &phonon-time; Phonon Dependencies Required and Optional and QZeitgeist User Notes: Installation of Phonon Make sure that is compiled without the bundled Phonon library. This package provides a better implementation. If you have both Qt4 and Qt5 installed, be sure to run source setqt4 before installing Phonon. Install Phonon by running the following commands: mkdir build && cd build && cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=&kde-dir; \ -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \ -DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=lib \ -DPHONON_INSTALL_QT_EXTENSIONS_INTO_SYSTEM_QT=FALSE \ -DDBUS_INTERFACES_INSTALL_DIR=/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces \ -Wno-dev .. && make Now, as the root user: make install Command Explanations -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release: This switch is used to apply higher level of the compiler optimizations. -DPHONON_INSTALL_QT_EXTENSIONS_INTO_SYSTEM_QT=FALSE: This switch ensures that the plugins and mkspecs files get installed in the correct location. -DDBUS_INTERFACES_INSTALL_DIR=/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces: This switch sets the correct installation path for the D-Bus interfaces file. Contents Installed Programs Installed Libraries Installed Directories None libphonon.so and libphononexperimental.so &kde-dir;/include/KDE/Phonon, &kde-dir;/include/phonon, and &kde-dir;/share/phonon