<chapter id="requirements"><title>Requirements</title><para>&amarok; requires the installation of some software packages. The required packages are listed below along with several other packages to enhance your &amarok; experience.</para><itemizedlist><title>Required:</title><listitem><para><ulink url="http://www.kde.org">KDELIBS 3.3</ulink></para></listitem><listitem><para><ulink url="http://freshmeat.net/projects/taglib">TagLib 1.4</ulink></para></listitem></itemizedlist><itemizedlist><title>Recommended:</title><listitem><para><ulink url="http://gstreamer.net">GStreamer-0.8.6 and Gst-Plugins-0.8.6</ulink></para></listitem></itemizedlist><itemizedlist>     <title>Optional:</title><listitem><para><ulink url="http://www.kde.org">aRts 1.3</ulink></para></listitem><listitem><para><ulink url="http://www.k3b.org">K3B 0.11</ulink></para></listitem><listitem><para><ulink url="http://www.kde.org">KDE-Base 3.3 (needed for Konqueror Sidebar)</ulink></para></listitem><listitem><para><ulink url="http://www.kde.org">KDEMULTIMEDIA 3.3</ulink></para></listitem><listitem><para><ulink url="http://www.musicbrainz.org/">libtunepimp 0.3</ulink></para></listitem><listitem><para><ulink url="http://libvisual.sf.net">Libvisual 0.2.0 and Libvisual plugins</ulink></para></listitem><listitem><para><ulink url="http://www.mediaapplicationserver.net">MAS 0.6.3</ulink></para></listitem><listitem><para><ulink url="http://www.mysql.com">MySQL 4</ulink></para></listitem><listitem><para><ulink url="http://www.networkmultimedia.org">NMM 0.7.0</ulink></para></listitem><listitem><para>OpenGL accelerated X-Server</para></listitem><listitem><para><ulink url="http://xmms-projectm.sourceforge.netm">ProjectM 0.96</ulink></para></listitem><listitem><para><ulink url="http://www.real.com">Real Player 10</ulink></para></listitem><listitem><para><ulink url="http://www.libsdl.org">SDL 1.2</ulink></para></listitem><listitem><para><ulink url="http://xine.sourceforge.net">xine 1.0.0</ulink></para></listitem><listitem><para><ulink url="http://xmms.org">XMMS 1.2 and XMMS visualization plugins</ulink></para></listitem></itemizedlist><note><para>If you obtain these dependencies via a packaging system, you mustalso install the devel versions of these packages!</para></note></chapter>