Building Amarok SVN in $HOME - An Update

(Image copyright by Wade Olson)


Ahoy maties,

in an earlier blog article I had explained how to install Amarok from SVN in your HOME directory. This guide was overall quite successful, but recently David Faure pointed out an error in setting $KDEDIR (thanks David!).

The old article recommended setting $KDEDIR in .bashrc, which could lead to odd side effects, like Amarok not finding its plugins, or crashing on exit. So I have now updated the article with a better method, which fixes these issues.

Additionally, Amarok 2.1-SVN now has some new build dependencies (like taglib-extras), which are detailed in our current README, but not in the old article. Fortunately Stephan Jau wrote this HOWTO article, which also describes these new additions. It's mostly aimed at Kubuntu users, but it should also be helpful for users of other distributions.


PS:
Yes, the image above is the new splash screen in 2.1. Hooray for Wade, his artwork is killer!

PPS:
Stay tuned for 2.1-beta1 really soon now - the ChangeLog approaches epic proportions