[Request] Amazon MP3 Downloader

Amazon has released a Linux version of the Amazon MP3 Downloader program.  It allows you to purchase and download entire albums of DRM-free MP3s at a discount over buying the MP3s one at a time.
They've only packaged it for Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, and openSUSE.  As far as I can tell, you have to go to the above URL and check the box to accept their terms of use before you can download it.
I tried creating my own PKGBUILD, but I'm not having much luck understanding exactly what goes where.  Any help would be appreciated.
Here's what I managed to put together so far by digging stuff out of the Debian version amazonmp3.deb file:
pkgname=amazonmp3
pkgver=1.0.2-1
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Amazon MP3 Downloader - Use the Amazon MP3 Downloader to download albums from http://www.amazonmp3.com"
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
url="http://www.amazon.com/gp/dmusic/help/amd.html"
license=('custom')
depends=('libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a' 'libboost-thread1.33.1' 'libboost-iostreams1.33.1' 'libboost-signals1.33.1' 'libboost-date-time1.33.1' 'libcurl3' 'libssl0.9.8' 'xdg-utils')
The control file inside the .deb file is as follows:
Package: amazonmp3
Version: 1.0.2-1
Section: net
Priority: extra
Architecture: i386
Depends: libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a, libboost-thread1.33.1, libboost-iostreams1.33.1, libboost-signals1.33.1, libboost-date-time1.33.1, libcurl3, libssl0.9.8, xdg-utils
Installed-Size: 756
Maintainer: Amazon MP3 <[email protected]>
Description: Amazon MP3 Downloader
Use the Amazon MP3 Downloader to download albums from http://www.amazonmp3.com
There's also an MD5SUMS file:
a3ae2d781a92b96f9cf8945cb9664948 usr/share/mimelnk/audio/x-amzxml.desktop
517b7b16909c28b4e802ceac06f93bbd usr/share/mime/packages/amazonmp3.xml
1f867a43d84a6b1fdf46e36d9c0686b0 usr/share/applications/amazonmp3.desktop
8ede68aa59f52300862acf0e18240aca usr/share/mime-info/amazonmp3.mime
22050f8f6201740dca096dfbd2cbd1fc usr/share/mime-info/amazonmp3.keys
6d5c626022ba14ba7bdee3cffd7db957 usr/share/doc/amazonmp3/license.html
09f79aa70363be88e0a13cf38b7fbbf7 usr/share/doc/amazonmp3/help.html
d4cb7cd1baa79b6ec96d982ac42333b1 usr/share/doc/amazonmp3/releasenotes
6b4b0e1a1542fd91bff28d4b9b5c86c2 usr/share/doc/amazonmp3/copyright
17bb53293aa428eb2057644b4bd117f9 usr/share/doc/amazonmp3/changelog.Debian.gz
9c0ab96a38490bce4376042b8e7b9724 usr/share/pixmaps/amazonmp3.png
2613cefce1c7d81f4df70db81d5f421b usr/bin/amazonmp3
Finally, the .deb file contains files named postinst...
#!/bin/sh
set -e
# Automatically added by dh_installmime
if [ "$1" = "configure" ] && [ -x "`which update-mime-database 2>/dev/null`" ]; then
update-mime-database /usr/share/mime
fi
# End automatically added section
# Automatically added by dh_desktop
if [ "$1" = "configure" ] && which update-desktop-database >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
update-desktop-database -q
fi
# End automatically added section
...and postrm...
#!/bin/sh
set -e
# Automatically added by dh_installmime
if [ -x "`which update-mime-database 2>/dev/null`" ]; then
update-mime-database /usr/share/mime
fi
# End automatically added section
# Automatically added by dh_desktop
if [ "$1" = "remove" ] && which update-desktop-database >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
update-desktop-database -q
fi
# End automatically added section
I'm certain that everything I need to create the PKGBUILD is present here.  Like I said, I just can't figure out how to put it all together.
Thanks in advance!

phabulosa wrote:
Anyone get it to work on Arch64.
Here is the problem I am running into
It doesn't seem to work on Arch64.
./amazonmp3: error while loading shared libraries: libgtkmm-2.4.so.1: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
If you run Arch64, the amazonmp3 package in AUR will build, install and run nicely in a chrooted Arch32 setup (see instructions here).
Even though they're not releasing their source and they're not offering a 64-bit Linux version of their mp3 downloader, I agree that Amazon is worth supporting, since their mp3s are DRM-free.
When I've wanted to buy an album, which requires the Amazon downloader, I've previously been doing it under Windows, then just copying the files to my Linux filesystem. Using the chrooted Arch32 approach, I can buy Amazon mp3 albums without leaving home (i.e., without leaving Arch).
Last edited by dhave (2008-08-14 13:53:14)

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