Always 'appy to 'elp, but where can I download that eagerly awaited Amarok version 2.3-beta? Looks nice on the videoclip, but without installing it I can't find any bugs...

There is a big download button on the front page or here" http://amarok.kde.org/en/releases/2.3/beta/1

marcel wrote:There is a big download button on the front page or here" http://amarok.kde.org/en/releases/2.3/beta/1

Yep. Couldn't miss that. But that leads to the Download page, which has a wealth of links to distro specific packages, as well as to the tarball, but none of these has version 2.3 beta. (openSUSE: v2.2.1; tarball: v2.2.2.90) And... that tarball did not install on my system anyway (complaining about a missing taglib dependency, which definitely is present).

Meanwhile I keep using the openSUSE package (from KDE:Backports repository), but that misses out on the new features promised with v2.3.

I'm running amarok-2.2.2.60svn20100203-3.5.x86_64 from the openSuse 11.2 playground repo and it appears to have some of the 2.3beta stuff (not sure what's not there)

This repo http://download.opensuse.org/repositori ... .2/x86_64/ has amarok-2.2.2.90svn20100214-1.1.x86_64.rpm which I'd guess is the the most current

if you're running a backports repo then you'd be using an older vervsion of kde4?

Aha. I'm running the openSUSE default KDE, which is v4.3, and I don't have the playground repositories with SVN packages added. It's my working (32-bit) machine, see, and I rather keep on the safe(r) side. I guess I'll have to wait until Amarok v2.3 has become official before I can use the equalizer again.

marcel and google01103, thanks for your helpful comments!

And then I found the latest Amarok package available for my system at:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/UNSTABLE:/Desktop/openSUSE_11.2/i586/
-- but... Package Manager suggested to perform 372 changes if I would like to install it.

So I did not.

But I did find my way to a huge pile of openSUSE repositories now.

it's not an Amarok thing - Suse is making 4.3.5 an online update not an optional one because of all the bug fixes
see http://news.opensuse.org/2010/02/16/att ... kde-users/

Thanks for this info. After that KDE update I'll give Amarok 2.2.2.90 another try. I wasn't blaming anyone BTW. After all, openSUSE exists to try out new stuff, so surprises may surprise us.

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