Adding Reply Archived Topic: It will not be bumped to the top of the forum. Topic installing in linux from a tarball? Membername   Not a member? Sign Up Free (takes 20 seconds) Password   Forgotten your password? Post Font: Verdana Arial Black Georgia Comic Sans Impact   Size: Tiny Normal Big Huge   Color: Default Dark Red Red Orange Brown Green Olive Cyan Blue Dark Blue Indigo Black [ Check Spelling ] [ Post Preview ] [ LiveTags ] FAQ Keyword Search: Post Options Favorites Manager Notify me of new replies to this topic by email Notify me of new replies to this topic by private message Original Post climber783 Posted at 6:49 pm on April 18, 2008 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.

Replies Macropiper Posted at 7:51 pm on April 18, 2008 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. i who have nothing Posted at 6:55 pm on April 18, 2008 vait.  here are the instructions.  they may work better: http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Download:Source climber783 Posted at 6:53 pm on April 18, 2008 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. i who have nothing Posted at 6:50 pm on April 18, 2008 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. All 4 previous replies displayed.