UPDATE:
This does not work for Fedora 11. For Fedora 11, I have compiled RPMs for clamz. Get the here.
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There are many things to love about amazon’s music store: mainstream and lesser well-known artists. DRM-free. Super-common mp3 format. Some of the cheapest prices on the market. Hundreds of no-cost songs.
But although Amazon.com supports Linux and has RPMs for Fedora, they don’t actually work on Fedora 9 or 10 . But they do with a few steps. Here’s how (for i386 and x86_64):
1. Log in as root: su.
2. yum install boost.i386
3. cd /lib
4. ln -s libssl.so.0.9.8g libssl.so.6
5. ln -s libcrypto.so.0.9.8g libcrypto.so.6
6. Download the rpm from http://www.amazon.com/gp/dmusic/help/amd.html
7. cd <the location of where you just saved that RPM>
8. rpm -ivh –nodeps amazonmp3.rpm
As a note of caution, I would frown on ever using –nodeps in any sort of regular practice, and rpm -qV will show library dep problems (which we actually solved).
Enjoy your new DRM-free tunes!
(Special thanks to FedoraForum.)
You might try the open source clamz which would be *included* in fedora if someone would just approve it.
http://code.google.com/p/clamz/
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=473184
By: Jim on May 11, 2009
at 6:44 pm
Great post, it worked perfectly on my Fedora 10 i386.
Have you gotten it to work on x86_64?
By: Jay on May 13, 2009
at 9:05 am
Yeah, I used the same steps to get it to work on my x86_64 machine.
By: vwbusguy on May 13, 2009
at 2:27 pm
Anyone get this to work with x86_64 Fedora 11?
By: amc on June 24, 2009
at 4:07 am
Works fine in f10 x86_64. I can try Fedora 11 tonight.
By: vwbusguy on June 24, 2009
at 8:54 am
I’m running into an issue with Fedora 11 too. I had to make some different symlinks:
/lib
libssl3.so -> libssl.so.6
libcrypt.so.1 -> libcrypto.so.6
/usr/lib
libboost_date_time.so.4 -> .so.3
libboost_signals.so.4 -> .so.3
libboost_iostreams.so.4 -> .so.3
libboost_thread-mt.so.4 -> .so.3
Now running into:
# amazonmp3
amazonmp3: symbol lookup error: amazonmp3: undefined symbol: _ZN5boost5mutexC1Ev
By: Jay Dobies on June 24, 2009
at 2:24 pm
For Fedora 11 x86_64, I have compiled RPMs for clamz:
http://vwbusguy.fedorapeople.org/clamz-0.2-7.fc11.x86_64.rpm
By: vwbusguy on June 28, 2009
at 5:38 pm
Any chance at getting a 386 build of this?
By: Jay Dobies on July 3, 2009
at 9:02 pm
If I get some time this weekend I’ll compile a 32-bit f11 rpm for clamz.
By: vwbusguy on July 4, 2009
at 8:53 am
Ignore my last request, it was dead simple to build and install clamz myself. Here’s a link to their google code site: http://code.google.com/p/clamz/
By: Jay Dobies on July 3, 2009
at 9:16 pm
I have RPMs for x86_64 and i586, both at http://vwbusguy.fedorapeople.org/clamz/f11/
By: vwbusguy on July 11, 2009
at 1:12 pm
clamz failing on .configure? Std FC11 install
checking for LIBCURL… configure: error: Package requirements (libcurl) were not met:
No package ‘libcurl’ found
yet it is installed?
$locate libcurl
/usr/lib/libcurl.so.4
/usr/lib/libcurl.so.4.1.1
How to tell ./configure how to find it please?
By: DaveP on July 24, 2009
at 9:41 am
Compiled fine for me. Make sure you have libcurl-devel installed. You should also make sure you compile and install things on your Fedora system through the RPM packaging system. You can use rpm -q to verify that a package is installed and what version.
Also, I have working RPMs for f11 in the link in the post. PackageKit will grab all the necessary deps. Shouldn’t need to re-compile. In fact, the way clamz is setup, you should be able to do your hacking post-install if you really _need_ to do any.
~Scott
By: vwbusguy on July 24, 2009
at 9:47 am
I hadn’t libcur-devel installed. Tks.
Still showing more.
Now missing
checking for LIBGCRYPT – version >= 1.2.0… no
configure: error: libgcrypt not found
Not heard of PackageKit, I’ll go read!
I was using yum for the installs.
which link please?
http://clamz.googlecode.com/files/clamz-0.2.tar.gz is what I was using. That seems a source build?
By: DaveP on July 24, 2009
at 9:53 am
Try using: http://vwbusguy.fedorapeople.org/clamz/f11/
By: vwbusguy on July 24, 2009
at 10:02 am
Success! I *think* there is something odd about
the rpm download page or the links thereon?
http://vwbusguy.fedorapeople.org/clamz/f11/i586/
I tried n times to download it and it just didn’t appear? Ran it with pkcon and it works.
I’m now downloading my Amazon purchase!
Many thanks for the post
(Even if I didn’t understand it!)
DaveP
By: DaveP on July 24, 2009
at 10:09 am
I am installing Amazonmp3 on F11 x64, I would be interested to know it this works for other installs.
Thanks, Bob
yum install libcurl.i586 gtkmm24.i586 gtk-nodoka-engine.i586 libcanberra-gtk2.i586 PackageKit-gtk-module.i586 bug-buddy.i586
wget mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/9/Fedora/i386/os/Packages/boost-1.34.1-13.fc9.i386.rpm
mv boost-1.34.1-13.fc9.i386.rpm /
cd /
rpm2cpio boost-1.34.1-13.fc9.i386.rpm | cpio -ivd ./usr/lib/libboost_thread-mt.so.1.34.1 ./usr/lib/libboost_iostreams.so.1.34.1 ./usr/lib/libboost_signals.so.1.34.1 ./usr/lib/libboost_date_time.so.1.34.1
ln -s /usr/lib/libboost_thread-mt.so.1.34.1 /usr/lib/libboost_thread-mt.so.3
ln -s /usr/lib/libboost_iostreams.so.1.34.1 /usr/lib/libboost_iostreams.so.3
ln -s /usr/lib/libboost_signals.so.1.34.1 /usr/lib/libboost_signals.so.3
ln -s /usr/lib/libboost_date_time.so.1.34.1 /usr/lib/libboost_date_time.so.3
http://www.amazon.com/gp/dmusic/help/amd.html?&forceos=LINUX
(use browser to accept and download to /software)
rpm -Uvh amazonmp3.rpm –nodeps
ln -s /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8k /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.6
ln -s /usr/lib/libssl.so.0.9.8k /usr/lib/libssl.so.6
By: shade304 on August 9, 2009
at 4:39 pm
Good news, the amazonmp3.rpm version 1.0.9 (still labled “fedora9″) now smoothly installs and works at F12!
If you have a x86_64 base you are still are forced to install several i686.rpms. And thats it!
The key is that the present rpms from ‘fedora updates’ also install the older links, eg.
/usr/lib/libboost_system.so.5 -> libboost_system.so.1.39.0
By: uhle89 on February 27, 2010
at 5:23 pm