Install Amarok 1.4 on Ubuntu 9.04
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.
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Thank you very much, i just don’t like the new amarok 2, too fancy with to little features
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
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.
thanks very much, not so much a fan of the new amarok design, glad it worked perfect using mint 7
Thanks from me also. Amarok 2.0 was not ready for prime-time, and should have never been released without an equalizer.
Thank you so much!! I recently moved to 9.04 and everything worked but amarok =)
Thank you! Amarok 2.0 is lacking most of the functionality we used to enjoy in 1.4!
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?
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?
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
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?
doesn’t work after today’s jaunty update:(
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
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
I was worried when I saw the update, but I tried it anyway. It work fine on 64-bit Ubuntu.
Works perfectly on Xubuntu 9.04.
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
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.
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.
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…
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.
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!
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!
Guys, glad to help out
Hi,
apt-get install amarok14
doesn’t work. Is the package removed from the repo ?
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/
THANK YOU. was looking for this forever.
Thanks so much. Worked flawlessly on Jaunty on my end.
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
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!
i cant thank you enough
amarok 2.1 sucks so bad, im having vertigo just looking at it
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!
But there is no way to get Amarok 1.4 working with music applet in Ubuntu 9.10. Package python-kde3 has been removed.
Yup, tested in Ubuntu 9.10. Works fine.
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
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)
Thanks your a genius!
i dont know how to make a source file. HELP
@howard
the fix is to remove the amarok-utils package
sudo apt-get remove amarok-utils should do it but I used synaptic
Thanks dude, this is really helpful.
Thanks
Amarok 1.4 is best!
@ mordes
Thanks! I’ve been searching this solution since release of Kubuntu 9.10!
@mordes
You are a genius! A full year later, your still a huge help