Google's Music Manager BETA

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I have a Google account and I used Google Music Manager BETA to upload my FLAC audio files to my Google Play account when I was using Ubuntu 12.04.1 64 bit LTS. I have a System76 Lemur Ultra Thin (lemu4) notebook PC and I installed OpenSuSE 64 bit Tumbleweed based on 12.2 64 bit “Mantis” release. When I downloaded the 64 bit RPM file for Google Music Manager BETA, it does a dependency check and it fails. It says that I need QTWebKit. I checked the Software Management feature in YaST and I see that I have the latest QTWebKit4 installed.

How do I view the log file associated with Google Music Manager BETA so I can see exactly what dependency is missing?

How do I fix this problem so that I can use Google Music Manager BETA?

It’s always the third-party, closed source, software applications and apps that are giving me problems. It’s not OpenSuSE 64 bit Tumbleweed itself. The OS is rock solid.

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Hi
Run ldd against the binary to see exactly what library it is looking
for, eg;


ldd /path/to/binary/actual-binary

Post the output from the ‘not found’ items.

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openSUSE 12.2 (x86_64) Kernel 3.4.11-2.16-desktop
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Malcolm:

Google Music Manager BETA never installed properly so I can’t do a ldd to the binary file. I tried to do a ldd to the .RPM file and it said that I don’t have execution permission and it also said that it is not a dynamic executable.

What are my other options?

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Hi
I just extracted the rpm and ran MusicManager from the extracted
directory, seemed to fire up fine… try that.

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up 23:19, 4 users, load average: 0.01, 0.11, 0.12
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Once again, thank you Malcolm for your help. This seems to be a suitable workaround. I logged into Google Music Manager BETA and I am uploading my newest FLAC audio files to my Google account right now. It works. SOLVED!

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Can you please explain this a little further? I right click on the google-musicmanager-beta_current_x86_64.rpm and select “extract with auto sub dir” from the dolphin right click menu.
I then end up with several directories in my download folder and I can not run the program.

Did you mean we are to extract the contents to the proper directory’s as listed in the rpm, for example /user/bin, /opt, /etc?

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On Sun 21 Apr 2013 12:16:01 AM CDT, anika200 wrote:

malcolmlewis;2497285 Wrote:
> Hi
> I just extracted the rpm and ran MusicManager from the extracted
> directory, seemed to fire up fine… try that.
>
> –
> Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
> openSUSE 12.2 (x86_64) Kernel 3.4.11-2.16-desktop
> up 23:19, 4 users, load average: 0.01, 0.11, 0.12
> CPU Intel i5 CPU M520@2.40GHz | Intel Arrandale GPU

Can you please explain this a little further? I right click on the
google-musicmanager-beta_current_x86_64.rpm and select “extract with
auto sub dir” from the dolphin right click menu.
I then end up with several directories in my download folder and I can
not run the program.

Did you mean we are to extract the contents to the proper directory’s
as listed in the rpm, for example /user/bin, /opt, /etc?

Hi
Correct, I extracted the rpm , then cd to into the extracted directory
and then down into /opt/google/musicmanager and run the app from there,
else just create a softlink to it from your users home directory;


cd
mkdir musicmanager
cd musicmanager
cp ../Downloads/google-musicmanager-beta_current_x86_64.rpm .
rpm2cpio google-musicmanager-beta_current_x86_64.rpm | cpio -vid
cd ../bin
ln -s /home/myusername/musicmanager/opt/google/musicmanager/google-musicmanager
google-musicmanager

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 12.3 (x86_64) Kernel 3.7.10-1.1-desktop
up 1 day 9:12, 4 users, load average: 0.18, 0.28, 0.30
CPU Intel® i5 CPU M520@2.40GHz | GPU Intel® Arrandale

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On Sun 21 Apr 2013 01:16:24 AM CDT, malcolmlewis wrote:

[QUOTE]
On Sun 21 Apr 2013 12:16:01 AM CDT, anika200 wrote:

malcolmlewis;2497285 Wrote:
> Hi
> I just extracted the rpm and ran MusicManager from the extracted
> directory, seemed to fire up fine… try that.
>
> –
> Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
> openSUSE 12.2 (x86_64) Kernel 3.4.11-2.16-desktop
> up 23:19, 4 users, load average: 0.01, 0.11, 0.12
> CPU Intel i5 CPU M520@2.40GHz | Intel Arrandale GPU

Can you please explain this a little further? I right click on the
google-musicmanager-beta_current_x86_64.rpm and select “extract with
auto sub dir” from the dolphin right click menu.
I then end up with several directories in my download folder and I can
not run the program.

Did you mean we are to extract the contents to the proper directory’s
as listed in the rpm, for example /user/bin, /opt, /etc?

Hi
Correct, I extracted the rpm , then cd to into the extracted directory
and then down into /opt/google/musicmanager and run the app from there,
else just create a softlink to it from your users home directory;


cd
mkdir musicmanager
cd musicmanager
cp ../Downloads/google-musicmanager-beta_current_x86_64.rpm .
rpm2cpio google-musicmanager-beta_current_x86_64.rpm | cpio -vid
cd ../bin
ln -s /home/myusername/musicmanager/opt/google/musicmanager/google-musicmanager
google-musicmanager

[/QUOTE]
Hi
I also note there is a desktop file, so if you copy that to your
~/.local.share/applications directory, then edit the path for the
executable and also the path/name of the icon (it’s
called product_logo_48.png) this will add a menu entry next time you
login.

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 12.3 (x86_64) Kernel 3.7.10-1.1-desktop
up 1 day 10:05, 3 users, load average: 0.13, 0.17, 0.15
CPU Intel® i5 CPU M520@2.40GHz | GPU Intel® Arrandale

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I installed it using zypper (I downloaded the package file & pointed zypper at it).

It also moaned about qtwebkit. A bit of a google later & it turns out it’s just moaning about the version (perhaps it’s using a different versioning/naming scheme?) and all that is required is to just “ignore” the dependency and install anyway. Boom.

Thoughtfully, it adds a repo to your sources for ease of future updating if you do it this way (and I assume through Yast as well).

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This actually worked better than all the other methods. I had no idea you could just do “zypper in blahblah.rpm” The amazing thing was I used Tab to complete the locale name google_xxxx.rpm and hit enter and it installed all the things it needed and that was it.

What is this amazing Zypper and can I get a T-Shirt.:slight_smile:

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On Wed 08 May 2013 08:56:01 PM CDT, anika200 wrote:

weighty_foe;2549890 Wrote:
> I installed it using zypper (I downloaded the package file & pointed
> zypper at it).
>
> It also moaned about qtwebkit. A bit of a google later & it turns out
> it’s just moaning about the version (perhaps it’s using a different
> versioning/naming scheme?) and all that is required is to just
> “ignore” the dependency and install anyway. Boom.
>
> Thoughtfully, it adds a repo to your sources for ease of future
> updating if you do it this way (and I assume through Yast as well).

This actually worked better than all the other methods. I had no idea
you could just do “zypper in blahblah.rpm” The amazing thing was I used
Tab to complete the locale name google_xxxx.rpm and hit enter and it
installed all the things it needed and that was it.

What is this amazing Zypper and can I get a T-Shirt.:slight_smile:

Hi
I just don’t like them running an at job, adding a cron job and a
repository and then downloading stuff onto my system unnotified…
Hence I always extract and run as my user only :wink:

Yes, zypper is very clever :wink:

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 12.3 (x86_64) Kernel 3.7.10-1.4-desktop
up 1 day 18:28, 4 users, load average: 0.05, 0.12, 0.13
CPU Intel® i5 CPU M520@2.40GHz | GPU Intel® Arrandale