Installing Amarok

[PSpeakman]

I have just installed Ubuntu Fiesty, but alas have no internet on it.
I DL the amarok file on a PC and copied them over, I have several including one called INSTALL and cmake, as a Linux newbie, which one os the windows version on .exe and how do i run it?

[bigtomrodney]

You are better installing from a package instead of from source (which is what you've got there).

The bad news is that as Amarok is a KDE application there are a LOT of other packages needed to get going on Ubuntu, which is Gnome based. On top of that Feisty is almost a year and a half old and is nearing its end-of-life. If you can get to an internet connectin for a little while you can install it through Synaptic which will arrange any other required packages for you.

[PSpeakman]

Cheers, will do.

[jmadero]

Why are you running the Feisty Fawn? That is pretty out dated. Here is a link to some .deb files, I'm sure you're going to get dependency issues, as stated earlier, it is a KDE not a Gnome software so you need all of the KDE libraries to run it

Download Provider — amarok deb file

[devils casper]

You can download Amarok and its dependent packages in any other machine ( OS doesn't matter ) having internet access and install Amarok in your machine.
Execute this :

sudo apt-get -qq --print-uris install amarok | cut -d\' -f 2 > amarok_urls

Above code will create a file amarok_urls in your home folder. Download all the packages listed in amarok_urls files.
Copy downloaded packages in /var/cache/apt/archives folder and execute this

sudo apt-get install amarok

[bigtomrodney]

That's a nice tip DC, thanks for that

[PSpeakman]

I installed Fiesty as it was the only one I could get to work on the Mac, I had hell with 2 others and the /dev/cdr or something, it didn't like something about the cd drive.
Now that it's installed can i upgrade it to Ibex or Jacob and if so how?

[PSpeakman]

I tried that amarok_urls thing but it was empty when I opened it, any thoughts. Seems quite cool though.

[devils casper]

Post the output of this

sudo apt-get -qq --print-uris install amarok | cut -d\' -f 2

[Bemk]

wasn't the upgrading of Ubuntu done with:

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

or something like that?

As far as I know this should update to the last LTS which is 8.04 Hardy Heron. It's supported for quite some time to come. Longer than Ibex or something, which is 8.10.

I am still using 8.04 just because it's long term support and with regular updates I don't feel the need to upgrade my install. You can use google to find out how to upgrade to 8.10, or 9.04 when that one is released.