> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Steven P. Ulrick<lists-kde@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello Everyone > > I have been compiling & installing KDE from Branch 4.3 SVN for a few months now. > > I have also been taking the risk of compiling & installing a number of items > > from extragear & playground, k3b being among them. > > K3B has been compiling perfectly for quite a while now. I have been burning > > Data & Audio CD's from K3B (from MP3 files) with no problems at all. > > Now, all of a sudden I have started getting this message: > > > > Mp3 Audio Decoder plugin not found. > > K3b could not load or find the Mp3 decoder plugin. This means that you will not > > be able to create Audio CDs from Mp3 files. Many Linux distributions do not > > include Mp3 support for legal reasons. > > Solution: To enable Mp3 support, please install the MAD Mp3 decoding library as > > well as the K3b MAD Mp3 decoder plugin (the latter may already be installed but > > not functional due to the missing libmad). Some distributions allow installation > > of Mp3 support via an online update tool (e.g. SuSE's YOU). > > It may be looking in a different place for the libraries instead of > /usr/local/kde4/lib/kde4/. You might try to symlink those affected k3b > files from there to /usr/lib and see if that fixes it. Hello Paul Are you implying that k3b from extragear/multimedia compiled under Branch 4.3 KDE from SVN will look for plugins in /usr/lib? I just want to know for sure. I did try what you suggested, and even deleted all k3b related items in ~/.kde. I had no success. But after I did all that, I had an idea. So I tried the following: I logged out of my main user account ($KDEDIR=/usr in that account) and logged into the account of the user that I built Branch 4.3 of KDE under. I ran k3b from that account, and the plugins show up as desired. Should the extragear/multimedia version of k3b (build under a different $KDEDIR) work for me the way that it has been? Possibly or probably not. But I still wonder, why did it work for me for so long? (logged in as a user that has $KDEDIR set to /usr) And is there anything I can do to make it work the way that it used to? Steven P. Ulrick ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.