How-To: Compile Amarok 1.4.10 in Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala"

[Seegorkesolot]

Well, I'm new to the forum, but I thought, that this howto may be worth being posted.

As a huge fan of Amarok I was a little distraced in Jaunty by the changes that the new Amarok 2 and so on implied and switched back to 1.4

In Karmic, I decided to give Amarok 2.2 a try but stated, that there's still a lot to do until the program reaches the quality of 1.4.10.

Which meant, that I installed the old version again. In order to avoid any foreign ppa, I compiled it from source. This is how I did this:

NOTE: An existing Installation of amarok 2 will be broken after the following steps, so backup you data!
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(Start a terminal)

First: Satisfy dependencies (I'm not sure, if all of them are really necessary)

sudo apt-get install kdelibs4-dev libxine-dev libdbus-qt-1-dev libtag1-dev libsqlite3-dev libtunepimp-dev libmysqlclient15-dev libpq-dev libvisual-0.4-dev libsdl1.2-dev libifp-dev
libusb-dev  libnjb-dev ruby ruby1.8-dev  x11proto-core-dev automake libtool
libxine1 libxine1-ffmpeg build-essential checkinstall

For iPod support:

sudo apt-get install libgpod-common libgpod4 libgpod-dev gtkpod

Second: Download and install the source code to a directory you wish. I used here my Downloads Folder and enter the folder

cd Downloads
wget http://download.kde.org/stable/amarok/1.4.10/src/amarok-1.4.10.tar.bz2
tar -xvf amarok-1.4.10.tar.bz2
cd amarok-1.4.10

Third: Well, the source and the 4.4 Version of the GNU C/#/++-Compilers do not work that well and amarok 1.4 isn't maintained anymore. So we have to apply a patch which will change the code to an up-to-date state (the one who wants can apply here a patch for the non-functioning cover-fetcher as well).

wget http://bugs.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=32838 -O amarok-1.4.10-gcc44.patch
patch -p1 < amarok-1.4.10-gcc44.patch

(covermanager-fix:

wget http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/amarok/attachments/20090822/52116f4a/attachment-0001.dll -O covermanager-fix.patch
patch -p1 < covermanager-fix.patch

)

Fourth: Wikipedia-Fix
Getting the Wikipedia infos is broken in the origin code. So we'll patch it with a solution provided on launchpad (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...k/+bug/316140/)

wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/34885946/99_fix_wikipedia_lookup.patch -O wikipedia-lookup.patch
patch -p1 < wikipedia-lookup.patch

I wasn't that satisfied with the search results. It was looked for "artist (band)" etc. which resulted in almost no success. So I changed two lines in the code with the following two commands to look for just the artist and so improve the results of wikipedia search.

sed 's/return " (band)";/return "";/g' amarok/src/contextbrowser.cpp > amarok/src/contextbrowser.cpp.tmp
sed 's/return " (Band)";/return "";/g' amarok/src/contextbrowser.cpp.tmp > amarok/src/contextbrowser.cpp

sed 's/return " (album)";/return "";/g' amarok/src/contextbrowser.cpp > amarok/src/contextbrowser.cpp.tmp
mv amarok/src/contextbrowser.cpp.tmp amarok/src/contextbrowser.cpp

sed 's/return " (song)";/return "";/g' amarok/src/contextbrowser.cpp > amarok/src/contextbrowser.cpp.tmp
mv amarok/src/contextbrowser.cpp.tmp amarok/src/contextbrowser.cpp

Fifth: Compile and install the source code
Since I'm under gnome I need to use the ./configure script with a flag, otherwise the KDE SoundSystem will not be found..

./configure --without-arts
make

For Kubuntu the flag isn't necessary (hopefully )

./configure
make

This should run through without errors, otherwise something isn't set up correctly yet!

Now for installing:
If you want a .deb package created use checkinstall
Probably, there will be error messages during the install and nothing is installed, but the package is created anyway

sudo checkinstall --pkgname amarok1410 --pkgversion 1.0

For finally installing use make install

sudo make install

And then you're done!

NOTE: I didn't perform any larger testing.. Open the program an playback worked. My iPod worked also including artwork.
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By the way: Because of self-compiling, a nice little extension program is working again, amarokFS (FullScreen).
That's the way to install it:

cd ~/Downloads
wget http://www.kde-apps.org/CONTENT/content-files/52641-amarokFS-0.5.tar.gz
tar -xvf 52641-amarokFS-0.5.tar.gz
cd amarokFS-0.5
make
sudo make install

Have fun and good luck!

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[wattz3]

Thank you very much! Worked great for me!

The only thing I would add, is after running the command checkinstall, modify the "Package" and "Provides" fields.
This will prevent package manager from trying to upgrade to version 2.x automatically.

# checkinstall

This package will be built according to these values: 

0 -  Maintainer: [ root@baaam ]
1 -  Summary: [ Amarok 1.4.10 - ubuntu 9.10 compile ]
2 -  Name:    [ amarok1410 ]
3 -  Version: [ 1.4.10 ]
4 -  Release: [ 1 ]
5 -  License: [ GPL ]
6 -  Group:   [ checkinstall ]
7 -  Architecture: [ i386 ]
8 -  Source location: [ amarok-1.4.10 ]
9 -  Alternate source location: [  ]
10 - Requires: [  ]
11 - Provides: [ amarok1410 ]

[andrew.46]

Hi wattz3,

The only thing I would add, is after running the command checkinstall, modify the "Package" and "Provides" fields.
This will prevent package manager from trying to upgrade to version 2.x automatically.

Better than doing it after running the checkinstall command is perhaps to add it in with the actual checkinstall command line:

$ sudo checkinstall --pkgname xxxxx --pkgversion xxxxx

With a careful look at the naming conventions used by Ubuntu and the amarok package you should be able to easily defeat your version being overwritten by the repository.

Andrew

[Seegorkesolot]

Thanks to both of you for this simple and obvious but elegant solution!

However, with make install, I hadn't any problems with Update Manager trying to upgrade. But creating a proper and functioning .deb is the nicer way of doing this, of course

[weazie]

checking for kde-config... not found
configure: error: The important program kde-config was not found!
Please check whether you installed KDE correctly.

Where to find the package kde-config?
I have KDE installed with amarok 2.2, which I removed.

weazie

EDIT:

Ok it was just a tip of the iceberg of missing dependecies...
I gave up.

[Seegorkesolot]

Hi weazie

Please check if you have installed the package kdebase-dev. If not, try to compile it again with the installed dev-files for KDE.

Otherwise install Amarok 2 again and try to compile 1.4.10 without removing the new version.

Good luck! And if there are still problems, please don't hesitate to bring them up!

[weazie]

Hi,

Thanks for help.
What I did was that I googled every error and installed the missing packages with synaptic.
got pretty far with that..

I ran out of patience with this:

>checking for KDE... configure: error:
>in the prefix, you've chosen, are no KDE libraries installed. This will >fail.
>So, check this please and use another prefix!
http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/arc...p/t-18389.html

Maybe someone will continue from that...

Thanks again.

[Seegorkesolot]

Yeah, that's pretty much the same thing as I did, as I wrote this howto.
Well, the problem with this is that I missed the dependencies that were already installed on my system.
I'm sorry for this inconvenience.

So, according to your problem:
Check, if following package is installed

kdelibs4-dev

Such development packages are essential for building packages from source. Missing dev packages lead to the paradox situation, that although KDE is installed and running, such an error can occur during configure.

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[mc4man]

nice job with the patches and overall.

The build deps seems a bit incomplete and has 2 packages that don't exist ( xlibs-dev, devtools

This may be a bit more suitable and adds a check for decent build tools, some who use this may not have built anything before ( blue are needed runtime deps

sudo apt-get install kdelibs4-dev libxine-dev libdbus-qt-1-dev libtag1-dev libsqlite3-dev \
libtunepimp-dev libmysqlclient15-dev libpq-dev libvisual-0.4-dev libsdl1.2-dev libifp-dev \
libusb-dev  libnjb-dev ruby ruby1.8-dev  x11proto-core-dev automake libtool \
libxine1 libxine1-ffmpeg build-essential checkinstall

plus ipod packages as you noted if desired

[Seegorkesolot]

Hi mc4man

Thanks a lot for your input, that's just about that, what I had planned to find out next

However, with your posted command everything should be fine! I wasn't aware, that the two packages you mentioned don't exist.

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