Howdy,
I'm a relative noobie, but will cut to the chase quickly. I am switching from the Windows XP SP3 to the Linux Mint Debian Edition Operating system.
LMDE can do just about everything I want accept provide a good jukebox program. I am using JRivers Media Jukebox in Windows. After researching the many of the available Jukebox/media programs available for Linux Distros, I believe that Amarok will do what I want.
Unfortunately, I cannot seem to find the correct download build to Amarok 2.7 to install on LMDE.

My questions: Could someone please help me to find the correct build for Amarok 2.7 for Linux Mint Debian Edition.

The only one listed in the LMDE repository is Amarok 2.6 beta 1.

I have been told from the Amarok KDE Wiki by Mamarok that I should

1 ) "Install the 2.7 version"
2) "please do NOT ask support question in this wiki, use the forum on amarok instead."

So here I am.

BTW, the Debian download for Amarok 2.7 says "The version in squeeze (currently stable) is and always will be 2.3.1."
So now I am totally lost!!

Help, please.

tlcmd (aka ****)

Welcome

I don't know Mint Debian but the 1st question to ask is are there any backports, updates or 3rd party repos that might have Amarok 2.7? You may need to ask this in the Mint and/or Debian forums as this is a distro specific question.

If you can't find any 2.7 package for Mint Debian you're going to have for compile it yourself, not terribly hard but might be a bit of work if you've never done anything similar, fortunately there's a great tutorial available http://blogs.fsfe.org/myriam/2009/09/26 ... l-summary/

The problem is your choice of the Linux Mint version, they simply do not provide that package, as it depends on Debian Wheezy which was frozen for new packages in July 2012 and Amarok 2.7 was released in January 2013. AFAIK the Linux Mint KDE version can use the Kubuntu repositories (don't know for the Debian one, that is something to ask the distribution) so you could get Amarok 2.7 by activating the Kubuntu backports PPA.
If you want a rolling distribution (something you mentioned in your wiki request) Linux Mint is not the right choice, as it always depends on another distribution, either Kubuntu, Ubuntu or Debian, none of which are real rolling distributions.
Just for completeness sake: a rolling distribution doesn't have a fixed release date but provides new packages when they are available upstream (= the ones who make the software). That would be the case for distributions like Gentoo or Archlinux or Debian Sid (aka unstable), none of which are really suitable for newcomers.

So to sum this up: Kubuntu with its PPAs (Private Package Archive) is the closed you can come to get a rolling release with recent packages and still have the stability of a 6-month release cycle for the underlying structure. Linux Mint KDE can use these PPAs, so you might give that one a try.

Disclaimer: I am heavily biased towards apt-based package distributions, of course there are other distributions out there which provide Amarok 2.7, like Fedora's KDE spin (http://spins.fedoraproject.org/kde/). And I am equally biased towards Kubuntu as this is the distribution I use since several years now.

google01103 wrote:If you can't find any 2.7 package for Mint Debian you're going to have for compile it yourself, not terribly hard but might be a bit of work if you've never done anything similar, fortunately there's a great tutorial available http://blogs.fsfe.org/myriam/2009/09/26 ... l-summary/

Erm, I don't think compiling from source is a good idea either, if you have to compile you should use the tarball we provide on our download page: http://download.kde.org/stable/amarok/2 ... mirrorlist. At least you get the latest stable version that way, compiling from source needs daily upgrades and provides you with the development version, not really aimed at the average users.