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Install Amarok 1.4 on Ubuntu 9.04

posted on May 18, 2009 in HowTo, Linux with 43 Comments  

Been using Jaunty since it came out. Loving the speed, simplicity and estatics!!

Everything works well except for Amarok 2 which ships default with Jaunty. I’ve been an Amarok 1.4 user for a long time now, moving to Amarok 2 is not something I fancy doing right now. Fortunately getting Amarok 1.4 onto Ubuntu is easy. Here’s how;

Create a new source file in “/etc/apt/sources.list.d/” and call it “amarok14.list”.

root@jackal:/# touch /etc/apt/sources.list.d/amarok14.list

Add these 2 lines to the source file. You can either copy & paste or run the echo command seen below.

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/bogdanb/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/bogdanb/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

root@jackal:/# echo "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/bogdanb/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/amarok14.list
root@jackal:/# echo "deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/bogdanb/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/amarok14.list

Make sure to register the PPA GPG key.

root@jackal:/# sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 0x1d7e9dd033e89ba781e32a24b9f1c432ae74ae63

Update your sources.

root@jackal:/# apt-get update

Remove any old instance of Amarok

root@jackal:/# apt-get remove amarok

Install Amarok 1.4

root@jackal:/# apt-get install amarok14

That’s it. Buzz me if it doesn’t work.

  • http://www.viddi.us Vidar L Sigurdsson

    Thank you very much, i just don’t like the new amarok 2, too fancy with to little features

  • juan jose osorio

    thanks it works perfect, i dont like the amarok 2.0 it doesnt have equalizer and the interface its ugly but amarok 1.4 rocks

  • stat

    Thanks for this, I am sure 2.1 is going to be great … but I found 2.02 unbearable. You post made getting to 1.4 a breeze, very helpful.

  • justin

    thanks very much, not so much a fan of the new amarok design, glad it worked perfect using mint 7

  • Khalid

    Thanks from me also. Amarok 2.0 was not ready for prime-time, and should have never been released without an equalizer.

  • THanks!!!!

    Thank you so much!! I recently moved to 9.04 and everything worked but amarok =)

  • Leo

    Thank you! Amarok 2.0 is lacking most of the functionality we used to enjoy in 1.4!

  • Noam

    Thanks for the how-to, but when I try install, I get the following message:

    The following packages have unmet dependencies:
    amarok14: Depends: amarok14-common (>= 2:1.4.10-0ubuntu3~ppa3) but it is not going to be installed
    E: Broken packages

    I executed:
    sudo apt-get install amarok14-common

    And tried to install again, but got the same message.
    How can I solve it?

  • ves

    hi :)
    thank you for solution. just, I have problem, when adding that key:

    sudo apt-key adv –recv-keys –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 0x1d7e9dd033e89ba781e32a24b9f1c432ae74ae63

    Executing: gpg –ignore-time-conflict –no-options –no-default-keyring –secret-keyring /etc/apt/secring.gpg –trustdb-name /etc/apt/trustdb.gpg –keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg –recv-keys –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 0x1d7e9dd033e89ba781e32a24b9f1c432ae74ae63
    gpg: requesting key AE74AE63 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
    gpg: key AE74AE63: “Launchpad PPA for Bogdan Butnaru” not changed
    gpg: Total number processed: 1
    gpg: unchanged: 1

    any idea?

  • ves

    and when I proceed to update:

    W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/bogdanb/ppa/ubuntu/dists/jaunty/… Unable to find expected entry jaunty/binary-i386/Packages in Meta-index file (malformed Release file?)

    E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

    and if I try to install Amarok 1.4, it says the same error

  • George

    This did not work for me today. During my daily update on 9.04, Amarok was removed during a partial upgrade which I did not request. I once went through this when I upgraded because I did not like Amarok 2. Now, I can,t get 14 back even though I went through all the steps listed. Any idea what happened?

  • pionnier

    doesn’t work after today’s jaunty update:(

  • Guy Littleford

    I’ll be going to Jaunty when Amarok 2x offers the following:

    1. An equaliser
    2. An equaliser
    3. An equaliser
    4. An equaliser
    5. An equaliser
    6. An equaliser

    That should just about cover it.

    Regards Guy

  • Pierre

    Thanks for that. Seems to work well.

    Only thing I noticed is that Amarok1.4 reports it’s running on KDE3.5 whereas my install is KDE4.2

    Cheers

  • Kpaden

    I was worried when I saw the update, but I tried it anyway. It work fine on 64-bit Ubuntu.

  • Scott

    Works perfectly on Xubuntu 9.04.

  • Carlos

    Won’t be easy:

    gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

    copy at the end:

    deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/bogdanb/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
    deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/bogdanb/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get remove amarok
    sudo apt-get install amarok14

    ?

    Anyway thanks for the link ;) I could’t find it

  • Harm Kindt

    Hi,

    Thanks for the post. Man was I glad to find this. Finaly I have 1.4 running and it is so much better than version 2.1.1.

  • Marin Dimitrov

    Thank you very much! I just couldn’t stand the new Amarok2 UI! What the heck is the middle field there for at all? Now I am enjoying the good old Amarok again.

  • bhrich90

    thx for the pkgs, just one thing, anyway i can change the fonts in amarok siince kcontrol doesn’t come with it and i didn’t see a config file in the .kde folder. thx…

  • http://thedaneshproject.com Danesh

    bhrich90, that’s a pain dude. I have the same issue now. kcontrol has been ended with the move to kde4. You will have to manually install it. I’ll try to dig something up.

  • JR

    Thanks for the guide. It works perfectly! I like the interface and functionality of Amarok 1.4 sooo much better than 2.0 or 2.1. Cheers!

  • Heresjohnny

    Thank you very much for creating this repository! I followed the instructions and was able to install without incident. There are so many things better about 1.4 than 2.0, I hardly know where to begin. I always have to go off and try the newest thing, sometimes I forget about the best thing. You absolutely rock!

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/danesh52921 Danesh

    Guys, glad to help out :D

  • Manish

    Hi,
    apt-get install amarok14
    doesn’t work. Is the package removed from the repo ?

  • http://thedaneshproject.com Danesh

    Manish,

    There have been changes made,

    Use the ppa below;

    deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/bogdanb/amarok14/ubuntu jaunty main
    deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/bogdanb/amarok14/ubuntu jaunty main

    Source:

    https://edge.launchpad.net/~bogdanb/+archive/amarok14/

  • anewso

    THANK YOU. was looking for this forever.

  • R.Avital

    Thanks so much. Worked flawlessly on Jaunty on my end.

  • Ingo

    I find the look and feel from Amarok 2 very god, but I need the Mysql support, so I havened only the change wit the older version.

    Your perfect. thanks a lot. I am so happy

  • Mark

    Thanks! Worked like a charm under Jaunty for me.
    I hated Amarok 2. I kept trying to switch to Banshee but I don’t feel it’s ready yet, so I kept coming back to Amarok 1.4 which of course was gone after I upgraded from Hardy to Jaunty.

    Thanks again! :)

  • Housse

    i cant thank you enough
    amarok 2.1 sucks so bad, im having vertigo just looking at it

  • Kellerfreak

    Do absolutely the same, if you want to install amarok 1.4 on ubuntu 9.10!
    Just tested – works fine!

    That also means to use the jaunty repositorys. don’t look for karmic’s!

  • http://www.nowaker.net/ Nowaker

    But there is no way to get Amarok 1.4 working with music applet in Ubuntu 9.10. Package python-kde3 has been removed.

  • SageQRtet

    Yup, tested in Ubuntu 9.10. Works fine.

  • Seegorkesolot

    If you want, you can compile it yourself for 9.10 Karmic, works fine without needing additional ppa’s:
    I wrote a How-To in the Ubuntu-forums: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1307737

    See

  • Howard Gilbert

    I failed to install on Kubuntu 9.10 with following error. Grateful for any suggestions

    Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
    (Reading database … 110181 files and directories currently installed.)
    Unpacking amarok14 (from …/amarok14_2%3a1.4.10-0ubuntu3~ppa4_i386.deb) …
    dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/amarok14_2%3a1.4.10-0ubuntu3~ppa4_i386.deb (–unpack):
    trying to overwrite ‘/usr/share/man/man1/amarokcollectionscanner.1.gz’, which is also in package amarok-utils 2:2.2.0-0ubuntu2
    dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
    Processing triggers for man-db …
    Errors were encountered while processing:
    /var/cache/apt/archives/amarok14_2%3a1.4.10-0ubuntu3~ppa4_i386.deb
    E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

  • Bowgart

    Thanks your a genius!

  • Josie

    i dont know how to make a source file. HELP

  • mordes

    @howard
    the fix is to remove the amarok-utils package

    sudo apt-get remove amarok-utils should do it but I used synaptic

  • Nick

    Thanks dude, this is really helpful.

  • Jakub

    Thanks :) Amarok 1.4 is best!

  • cosik

    @ mordes
    Thanks! I’ve been searching this solution since release of Kubuntu 9.10!

  • Daniel

    @mordes

    You are a genius! A full year later, your still a huge help

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