Package: phonon
Version: 4:4.8.0-4
Severity: normal
Tags: d-i
Dear Maintainer,
Hello and thanks for a great Linux and an otherwise stellar KDE installation.
Installing Debian 8/Jessie from the official DVD #1 with KDE chosen as the desktop environment
omits some dependencies of KDE's audio manager, Phonon. Specifically, Phonon offers buttons to
test the left and right speakers, which depend on the sound-theme-freedesktop package - yet out
of the box on my system, these were missing, so I thought I had more serious problems with my
audio hardware.
I have also seen it reported online - when searching for the above fix - that libcanberra-pulse
is also required for this. However, I had installed that before I knew about the sound theme,
so I have no way of knowing whether it is definitely involved too. It would be worth checking.
So in total my solution was
aptitude install libcanberra-pulse sound-theme-freedesktop
again with uncertainty over whether the libcanberra package was really needed. Certainly the sound theme was required for the left/right wav files, etc.
I also have problems with the bundled Konqueror not playing audio, but I have yet to determine
the cause of this, so it'll be filed separately if I do.
Thanks
D.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.2
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages phonon depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.56
ii libphonon4 4:4.8.0-4
ii phonon-backend-vlc [phonon-backend] 0.8.0-2
phonon recommends no packages.
Versions of packages phonon suggests:
pn phonon-backend-gstreamer <none>
pn phonon-backend-mplayer <none>
ii phonon-backend-vlc 0.8.0-2
-- debconf information:
phonon-backend-null/isnt_functional:
phonon-backend-null/isnt_functional_title: