I was using amarok and was trying to add the xine engine to it because it displays the songs were the default engine does not. Because of conflicts in yast it bummped out and default engine and wouldn’t let me add xine. I had this working the first time I installed opensuse 11, after many problems with kde4 I reinstalled the OS and now I’m trying to get it back to where it was.
not amarok is locked in yast. how do a add the xine engine to it?
I can not tell where you are at, so its possible you have tried some of what I will recommend.
(1) remove Novell/SuSE-GmbH packaged xine-lib
(2) install Packman packaged libxine1 and mad
(3) install Packman packaged amarok,
(4) in amarok > Settings > Configure Amarok > Sound System and select xine engine.
where is the pacman version of amarok? I still have a version of amarok with no engine at all and I installed the other files you mentioned.
looks like I found the pacman-amarok, but when I go to engine there’s none to select.
how do I get the xine engine installed? I’ve never had this problem before in opensuse, ubuntu, mint, sidux, or PCLOS.
I’ve never had that problem with SuSE/openSUSE, and I’ve been using SuSE for 7 years. And I don’t have that problem now.
How are you installing? I hope you are not installing with the basic rpm command and forcing applications.
Don’t mix up 32-bit with 64-bit packages.
I’m told the packman-amarok has no files! Instead it just has dependencies, and it is designed to ensure the packman packaged version of amarok has all its dependencies properly looked after. So please ensure you have installed the application called ‘amarok’ from packman. To confirm you have the correct applications, please copy and paste the following (one line at a time) into a konsole and report the output:
rpm -qa | grep amarok
rpm -qa | grep xine
rpm -q mad
here’s the results:
davek@linux-13mw:~> rpm -qa | grep amarok
amarok-xine-1.4.10-100.pm.1
amarok-yauap-1.4.10-100.pm.1
amarok-lang-1.4.10-100.pm.1
amarok-libvisual-1.4.10-100.pm.1
amarok-1.4.10-100.pm.1
amarok-packman-1.4.10-100.pm.1
davek@linux-13mw:~>
davek@linux-13mw:~> rpm -qa | grep xine
xinetd-2.3.14-115.1
amarok-xine-1.4.10-100.pm.1
libxine1-1.1.15-0.pm.0
davek@linux-13mw:~>
davek@linux-13mw:~> rpm -q mad
mad-0.15.1b-1.pm.3
davek@linux-13mw:~>
The xine engine should be there . You have it installed. Are you certain you went to the correct location for the engine?
Have you restarted amarok recently?
nothing is in the drop-down menu for engine.
Reads like a bad install. I recommend you remove amarok, remove its config files, download and install it again. In kde3 the config files are located under /home/username/.kde/share/apps/amarok
What application are you using to install the rpms?
I’m using Yast2. What else is there?
I did what you said but added the amarok-xine engine instead of the one that starts with a y.
Now its working the way it should. someone at the amarok forum a few months ago told me that opensuse’s version of amarok wasn’t that good and to use xine for the engine, otherwise it won’t show the song names. Now it’s working. 
Glad its working … but you just confused me … in your previous post you stated you had no selections in the drop down menu for engine, and now you say you selected something. … Is that because the re-install of amarok (and/or removal of old config files) worked?
There are a number of others.
I recommend you read the openSUSE concepts guide:
Concepts - openSUSE
Yes, because of the reinstall and removing the old config file. That’s what did it.