To all of our enthusiastic SVN Amarok users:

Amarok 2.0 (based on Qt4/KDE4) development has now started in SVN trunk. This means that Amarok from SVN will be quite broken for quite some time to come; it may not even compile.

The stable (1.4) branch is located at:  branches/stable/extragear/multimedia/amarok/


However, since Amarok 1.4 development is mostly finished, you may simply want to stick to Amarok 1.4.7.

Any hints or pointers to make it compile with KDE4/Qt4 will help. Is it just download and install the libs from KDE 3.80.2 at http://kde.org/info/3.80.2.php and then build Amarok using it or something more.

At this point trunk is only interesting for developers. It does not even compile currently.

An update to the amarok-svn.sh script has just been posted to kde-apps.org :

Changelog:
Version 3.2 (2007-02-03)
* FIX: Some minor string changes
* CHG: checkout data from branches/stable instead of trunk, since trunk now is Amarok 2.0 (b0rked atm). This means you have to remove your build directory (amarok-svn) before running the script if you've upgraded from an older version.

http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=27313

No doubt, as 2.0 development progresses, another script will be written to checkout the dev branch, but for now, stick to stable.

To build Amarok 2, here are some resources:

• http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Build/KDE4
• http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/2.0_Development_HowTo