I recently changed from Gnome to KDE, and I'm pretty happy with the switch. 

But there's some sort of problem with Amarok2.  It still appears to be Amarok 1.4.

I added the repository to my sources.list, and adept says I have version 2 installed (doesn't it?).
Also Amarok says I'm suing KDE 3.5, but KDE says it's 4.1.

What's going on?


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You need to first uninstall Amarok 1.4, as it is the default version shipped with Kubuntu 8.10. To download Amarok2, you need then to enable the following repo:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-members-kde4/ubuntu intrepid main

If you are indeed running KDE4 it should already be in your sources.list

the Amarok2 packages you will have to install are the following:

amarok-kde4
amarok-kde4-dbg
amarok-libmysqlclient-dev
amarok-mysql-data

dalesd wrote:I added the repository to my sources.list, and adept says I have version 2 installed (doesn't it?).
Also Amarok says I'm suing KDE 3.5, but KDE says it's 4.1.

What's going on?

In the Debian packaging system anytime you see a package version the starts with a number and a colon, in this case '2:', it's an epoch, the part that follows the colon '1.4.10' is the version of the software.

Since users normally only see upgrades in the packaging system, adding an epoch allows the package to be seen by the packaging system as an upgrade allowing users to get it through the normal upgrade process if it is determined there is a need to go back to an earlier version.

There were some 1.9.x Amarok packages available (the development versions leading to 2.0) during the Intrepid development cycle, but for Intrepid it was decided to release with 1.4.10, so for those who upgraded to Intrepid during the development cycle when the 1.9.x packages were there, the epoched version got them back the 1.4.10 to match what was included when the final version of Intrepid was released. And the newer versions of Amarok were moved to a PPA repository.

Later, Seeker