Install Amarok2 on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic

Amarok is a free software music player for Linux and other varieties of Unix, as well as Windows since version 2.0 (through KDE for Windows). It makes use of core components from the K Desktop Environment, but is released independently of the central KDE release cycle.

A new major version of Amarok, version 2.0, was released on December 12, 2008, which was a complete aesthetic and functional redesign of Amarok 1.4. On June 3, 2009, version 2.1 was released which reintroduced a few of the 1.4 features which had been missing from the initial 2.0 release, and introduced some features such as native ReplayGain support for the first time.

In this tutorial, i will walk you through installing the beautiful new Amarok 2.2 on Ubuntu Linux 9.10 Desktop.

Install Amarok2 on Ubuntu 9.10

1) Remove existing Amarok (if it exists)

# sudo apt-get purge amarok amarok-common

2) Ensure Ubuntu is fully up to date

# sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

3) Install Amarok2 dependencies

# sudo apt-get install git-core build-essential kubuntu-restricted-extras kde-devel subversion libncurses5-dev libtag1-dev libqca2-dev libstrigiqtdbusclient-dev libstreamanalyzer-dev

4) Edit your .bashrc and myenv.sh

# echo '' >> ${HOME}/.bashrc

# echo 'export PATH=$HOME/kde/bin:$PATH' >> ${HOME}/.bashrc

# echo 'export KDEDIR=$HOME/kde' >> ${HOME}/.bashrc

# echo 'export KDEDIRS=$KDEDIR' >> ${HOME}/.bashrc

5) Verify .bashrc and myenc.sh edits

# cat ${HOME}/.bashrc

# cat ${HOME}/.kde/env/myenv.sh

6) Reload .bashrc

# source ${HOME}/.bashrc

7) Create working folders

# mkdir -p ${HOME}/kde/src

# mkdir -p ${HOME}/kde/build/amarok

8) Download Amarok2

# cd ${HOME}/kde/src

# git clone git://gitorious.org/amarok/amarok.git

9) Download MySQL

# cd ${HOME}/kde/src

# wget http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-5.1/mysql-5.1.40.tar.gz/from/ht...

10) Extract and compile MySQL

# tar xzvf mysql-5.1.40.tar.gz

# cd mysql-5.1.40

# cp -R ${HOME}/kde/src/amarok/supplementary_scripts/mysqle/* .

11) Compile taglib-extras

# cd ${HOME}/kde/src

# svn co svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/kdesupport/taglib-extras/ taglib-extras

# cd taglib-extras

# mkdir build

# cd build

# export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${HOME}/kde/build/taglib-extras/taglib-extras

# cmake -DWITH_ASF=On -DWITH_MP4=On -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${HOME}/kde ..

# make

# make install

12) Compile QtScriptGenerator

# cd ${HOME}/kde/src

# wget http://qtscriptgenerator.googlecode.com/files/qtscriptgenerator-src-0.1....

# tar xfvz qtscriptgenerator-src-0.1.0.tar.gz

# cd qtscriptgenerator-src-0.1.0

# wget http://www.timashley.me/files/qtscript_patches.tar.gz

# tar zxvf qtscript_patches.tar.gz

# rm generator/parser/rpp/pp.h

# rm generator/qtscript_masterinclude.h

# cp pp.h generator/parser/rpp

# cp qtscript_masterinclude.h generator/

# export INCLUDE=/usr/include/qt4

# cd generator

# qmake

# make

# ./generator

# cd ../qtbindings

# qmake

# make

# cd ../plugins/script

# sudo cp -R * /usr/lib/qt4/plugins/script/

13) Install Amarok2 plugins

# sudo apt-get install qt4-qmake pkg-config libsamplerate-dev libfftw3-dev ruby g++ libqt4-dev

# cd ${HOME}/kde/src/

# wget http://cdn.last.fm/src/liblastfm-0.3.0.tar.bz2

# tar xvfj liblastfm-0.3.0.tar.bz2

# cd liblastfm-0.3.0

# ./configure --release --prefix /usr/local

# make

# sudo make install

# sudo apt-get install libgpod4 libgpod-dev libmtp8 libmtp-dev curl libcurl4-openssl-dev libxml2 libxml2-dev libloudmouth1-0 libloudmouth1-dev

14) Compile Amarok2

# cd ${HOME}/kde/src/amarok

# mkdir build

# cd build

# cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${HOME}/kde -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=debugfull ${HOME}/kde/src/amarok

# make

# make install

15) Run Amarok2

# amarok