Installing Amarok 1.4 in Ubuntu Jaunty

Published on 2 years, 9 months ago in Tech. 7 Comments

Don’t like Amarok 2? Despair not, because there is a way to get back your Amarok 1.4 in Ubuntu Jaunty. Basically, you need to find a mirror of Amarok 1.4 and just install from there. One of those is mentioned below. This is all you have to do :

Add the repositories for Amarok 1.4 to your sources.list file:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/bogdanb/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/bogdanb/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

Add the key:

sudo apt-key adv –recv-keys –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com \
0x1d7e9dd033e89ba781e32a24b9f1c432ae74ae63

And then finally, update your sources, remove Amarok 2 and install 1.4

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get remove amarok
sudo apt-get install amarok14

That’s it. You are done. You have successfully installed Amarok 1.4 in Jaunty. Have fun.

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  • jd-f

    Thanks so much for this! I really tried to get used to Amarok 2 – or at least get it to work bearably well – it's great to have 1.4 back and very simple following your instructions! Thanks again!

  • uGGa

    I had some errors, so in step 2 i suggest to type this in terminal: sudo apt-key adv –recv-keys –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 1D7E9DD033E89BA781E32A24B9F1C432AE74AE63

    Thank you very much!

  • wehttam

    i did this and got the following error

    Amarok could not find any sound-engine plugins. Amarok is now updating the KDE configuration database. Please wait a couple of minutes, then restart Amarok.
    If this does not help, it is likely that Amarok is installed under the wrong prefix, please fix your installation using:
    $ cd /path/to/amarok/source-code/
    $ su -c “make uninstall”
    $ ./configure –prefix=`kde-config –prefix` && su -c “make install”
    $ kbuildsycoca
    $ amarok
    More information can be found in the README file. For further assistance join us at #amarok on irc.freenode.net.

    any ideas as to how i can fix this?

  • moi

    Thanks so much! It worked perfectly!

    Finally, I can play tracks with spaces in their file names :-)

  • Kaice

    I'd like to add my thanks for this also. I tried Amarok 2 (automatically upgraded when I upgraded from Intrepid to Jaunty), but I found it to be much less functional (for me) – even with the thing that *did* work. I also seemed to have lost my access to my PMD (creative Zen) with the 2.x release – so this is a God-send. I was almost ready to backup and reinstall Intrepid. Thanks loads.

  • Statmonkey

    I'd say you are smart. Really a lifesaver as I could not get 2.1 to do many of the things that I appreciated most about amarok (pretty much everything about 1.4). I am sure the next release or maybe the one after will be there but it is great to have 1.4 back again. Thanks for writing this up.

  • Jose Tapia

    Thanks I really apreciatte