I am a little new at installing stuff on linux so some things confuse me. For example, in the instructions for installing from source, the first command given is:

./configure --prefix=\'kde-config --prefix\'

I\'m don\'t know what I\'m supposed to do with the --prefix=\'kde-config --prefix part I\'ve tried just using that word for word but, apparently thats not the right thing to do.
Any suggestions?

I think you get the idea. Just enter it at the command line prompt.

It looks like you didn\'t copy and paste though, the command is:

./configure --prefix=`kde-config --prefix`

not

./configure --prefix=\'kde-config --prefix\'

You need to use the right quotes. If you\'re new to installing stuff on linux, find packages for your distro, installing from source isn\'t too simple, and chances are you have a user-friendly disto like SuSE that won\'t have ANY development packages installed, so you\'ll have to spend hours figuring out which devel packages to install before amaroK will even compile.

There\'s a distro list in our wiki,.

Thanks, that got me past the first part. But it seems there is no makefile in the directory., it hangs saying \"no targets specified and no makefile found. I am probably just missing something again. Any help is much appreciated.

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The same directory you did configure? And you type \'make\' and that happens? That shouldn\'t happen. Follow mxcl\'s suggestion and use a distro package.

Wiki to the rescue:

http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/index.php/Installation_HowTo#Building_CVS_amaroK