HOWTO: install amaroK 1.3-beta2

[thechitowncubs]

how about beta3

[MikePB]

So, did the devs dump xine? Or did you just not include that? Because I found that xine will auto advance .m4a files while gstreamer won't....

[moment]

So, did the devs dump xine? Or did you just not include that? Because I found that xine will auto advance .m4a files while gstreamer won't....

No I didn't include it myself.

[xodeus]

For all of those that really have problems understanding:

Install amarok from hoary's repo.

sudo apt-get install amarok

Then remove amarok and amarok-arts

sudo apt-get remove amarok

Now get the file:

wget http://www.lsr.ph.ic.ac.uk/~ho1/linux/deb/amarok_1.3-beta2-1_i386.deb

And install:

sudo dpkg -i amarok_1.3-beta2-1_i386.deb

Attatchment:
amaroK up and running.

[Lizzy]

Hi everyone ! I'm new here, plus i'm a complete newbie when it comes to Linux . I just wanted to thank you so much for the install-help xodeus. It is the first time i got amarok to work. I tried to install it before and it never worked (no sound). But now i'm happy .

Thanks again

[xodeus]

Hi everyone ! I'm new here, plus i'm a complete newbie when it comes to Linux . I just wanted to thank you so much for the install-help xodeus. It is the first time i got amarok to work. I tried to install it before and it never worked (no sound). But now i'm happy .

Thanks again

Hi Lizzy.
All credits to moment, who started this. But you're welcome. Just wanted to make it simple.

[MikePB]

Thanks all of ya for putting this together. I sure as heck wouldn't be getting as proficient with Linux as I am if not for you and people like you.

But I think I'll wait on the latest version until I can get it with xine.. It won't let me have 1.3b2 and install amarok-xine. Keeps "upgrading" back to 1.2

Don't get me wrong, but I can't get gstreamer to advance automatically after playing an m4a file... The length reads something like 6 digits or something. Strangeness.

Bah 1.2 works fine for me ^_^

[moment]

how about beta3

Although the beta3 is not that much different from beta2 (The most obvious changes are the equaliser presets and podcasting support) I built the deb packages for the beta3 as well (amarok and libtag). But you need to firstly upgrade the libtag1 library to version 1.4:

get them:

wget http://www.lsr.ph.ic.ac.uk/~ho1/linux/deb/libtag1_1.4-1_i386.deb
wget http://www.lsr.ph.ic.ac.uk/~ho1/linux/deb/amarok_1.3-beta3-1_i386.deb

and install them:

sudo dpkg -i amarok_1.3-beta3-1_i386.deb libtag1_1.4-1_i386.deb

[thechitowncubs]

Although the beta3 is not that much different from beta2 (The most obvious changes are the equaliser presets and podcasting support) I built the deb packages for the beta3 as well (amarok and libtag). But you need to firstly upgrade the libtag1 library to version 1.4:

get them:

wget http://www.lsr.ph.ic.ac.uk/~ho1/linux/deb/libtag1_1.4-1_i386.deb
wget http://www.lsr.ph.ic.ac.uk/~ho1/linux/deb/amarok_1.3-beta3-1_i386.deb

and install them:

sudo dpkg -i amarok_1.3-beta3-1_i386.deb libtag1_1.4-1_i386.deb

yipee, thanks a lot moment

[Lizzy]

Hi again!! Something weird happend after an upgrade... all over sudden, amaroK doesn't work any more. I had to remove amaroK, and tried to install it again the same way as xodeus described.. but when it gets to unpacking the program, i'm told that an error acured regarding dependencies????? I'm a total newbie, and in addition to all this i'm not good with data-stuff (*just a girlie trying to use and understand Linux).. What am i doing wrong? Was it wrong to make an update/upgrade of Ubuntu? I'm having problems figuring out what sound engines to use, how to use them???

Sorry for my stupid questions
It's just that i liked the amaroK so much *sniff