Comments on: Potamus: The way software should be

By: ethnopunk

ethnopunk — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 19:48:41 +0000

Anyone know how to configure it, doesn’t seem to load anything on Ubuntu 10:10

By: Keep the customers satisfied: Three more graphical apps « Motho ke motho ka botho

Sun, 24 Oct 2010 10:12:27 +0000

[...] me wonder, in the grand scheme of things, if I really need it as a music player when things like Potamus are running quite a bit [...]

By: Who are you, and where is my regular audio playback application? « Motho ke motho ka botho

Mon, 13 Sep 2010 01:50:50 +0000

[...] there’s still Potamus to use on machines so slow that almost-no-interface is the best [...]

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Wed, 12 May 2010 14:11:31 +0000

You might try the --without-recommends flag when you install it, and see if the qt packages are left out. If it still tries to install a large number of oddball dependencies, you could try compiling it yourself, or contact the package manager for Potamus and find out why qt is drawn in as a dependency.

As far as I can tell from the home page, Potamus was intended as a GTK2 application. So the addition of qt to your system sounds bizarre, unless one of the other libraries wants it.

By: MK

MK — Wed, 12 May 2010 12:51:24 +0000

That’s Ubuntu Lucid, a minimal installation in virtual box. Just added these to the cli: xorg, gdm, gnome-core, ubuntu-artwork, and then, Potamus.
http://www.box.net/shared/n7q40z00if
Other then that, it is a nice app, clean interface and works as expected.

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Wed, 12 May 2010 02:04:16 +0000

Hmm. Can I ask which system you’re using? The Arch version doesn’t seem to imply qt at all, and even the Ubuntu version doesn’t seem to draw anything that asks for qt. And depending on which types of audio files you use, I could suppose that some of those other libraries could be trimmed out.

By: MK

MK — Tue, 11 May 2010 23:26:11 +0000

Alright, this is belated, but I got to install Potamus, and I am worried about you Kmandla. Seriously, Potamus? 12.7MB to download -libqt4, jack and a bunch of other libs? 38.6MB of disk space to be used? Hah? That’s more then Slitaz ISO. Just for a music player. What is going on? You are the guy that tries running Ubuntu on 30MB of RAM and Arch on something like 5. Did I miss the transition? Next thing you know, you are gonna be running Vista on 8GB of RAM and a quadcore.

By: Nonbelievers need not apply: Surfraw « Motho ke motho ka botho

Nonbelievers need not apply: Surfraw « Motho ke motho ka botho — Mon, 10 May 2010 22:58:52 +0000

[...] and shiny sliders and whirling doo-dads that encrust most graphical applications these days (Potamus excluded [...]

By: Sukneet

Sukneet — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 04:46:45 +0000

Check out deadbeef http://deadbeef.sourceforge.net/
It’s the closet thing to foobar2000 I’ve seen

By: fuxter

fuxter — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 08:21:44 +0000

i get the same error on ubuntu with potamus from repositories. i didn’t investigate anymore, but i found that it luanches only with jackd running. i must note, i got rid of pulseaudio long ago. so without jack it doesn’t work, even with aoss.

aur package is great though