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I am currently hacking an OLD ASUS Eee PC 1001 laptop that ran Windows XP (that's right, Windows XP) and turning it into a fully functional Linux Machine. My buddy and I tore the laptop apart and installed a Crucial MX300 275GB SSD to replace the 160 GB HDD, and decided we wanted a SOLID proven OS. We figured out HOW to copy a DVD.iso on to a USB thumb drive, then boot from a thump drive to install the OS. No mean feat since the DEFAULT first device it goes looking for is a CD-ROM -- very good since there is NO CD-ROM on the laptop. We decided to install CentOS 6.8 i386 (this laptop is so old and funky we are still back in the days of 32 bit processing). The laptop owner uses it work business purposes, which is another reason we chose CentOS since it more-or-less bullet proof , my buddy and I have used CentOS 5, 6, and currently 7 on a ASUS M5A97 R2.0 mobo, w /AMD 6300 6 core processor w/32 GB of RAM a 1 TB HDD and a 250 GB SSD. These are IDENTICAL machines and both are low to medium end Workstations.

Having gotten CentOS 6.8 installed I proceeded to install all the packages she might need in the course of her work, tricked out the GUI (KDE). added 8 different wallpapers, dedicating each Virtual Desktop to a group of specific activities, added all the necessary repos so at some point in the future she can add new packages if need be by simply using the "yum install "xyz" " I'm in the final stages of polishing the install before I hit the rowdy road with it and use it under real world conditions. I then went to install Amarok -- everyone needs tunes. I have grown to LOVE Amarok, a perfect solution which would add class to this old funkadelic laptop. Only I CAN'T FIND AMAROK FOR CENTOS 6. Indeed I can't find Amarok for *any* CentOS distro... though CentOS 7.2.1511 seem to have it in its epel repo, and it works perfectly. If Amarok is going to be supported in "Bleeding Edge" distros such as Fedora, why not support it in RHEL /CentOS where people may not want to do quite as much "Bleeding"?

If someone has a link for Amarok that will run Amarok in CentOS 6.8 that is using some version of KDE 4.x, not KDE 3.x Please let me know.

Thanks