Hey, I'm trying to install the new version of Amarok 1.4.9.1. I've got LinuxMint, so it runs off of the Ubuntu 6.10 repositories. But the newest version of Amarok isn't in the repositories, so I've got to install it from source, in a tarball. I've never done this before, so...how do I do this? Can be a bit technical, I'm half decent at installing through the terminal, just need a bit of direction on this.
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in bash shell
tar -zxvf tarballfilehere
that'll extract it all. then just go into the directory that it extracted to and read the installation file. i'd just wait for it to come out into the repositories though. it's such a fucking hassle to compile programs.
Yeah, it's a bit of a pain. Maybe I just like self-torture, but it's kinda fun to try to get everything working.
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vait. here are the instructions. they may work better:
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You are going to need lots of development packages, fortunately it will moan about them not being there, so when the configure script stops and moans about not finding something, go and install the devel package of whatever it is moaning about.
You should be able to install the development packages using Synaptic, or apt-get.
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