Compilation Instructions for Amarok 1.4.x

Extract the downloaded tarball thus:

tar xjf amarok-x.y.z.tar.bz2

Obviously you must replace x.y.z with the version of Amarok you have downloaded, eg:

tar xjf amarok-1.4.10.tar.bz2

Change into the directory that was extracted from the tarball, it should have the form amarok-x.y.z, eg:

cd amarok-x.y.z

Read the README file that is in this directory, it may contain specific information that you will need when attempting to build and install Amarok.
Check you have the mandatory dependencies Amarok requires. If you aren't sure if you have these dependencies installed, the configure script will tell you.
Ubuntu or Debian users: to solve other dependencies, use this

sudo apt-get build-dep amarok

sudo yum resolvedep amarok

The following are a couple of possible configuration arguments, to see full list try ./configure --help:

--enable-mysql
--enable-postgresql
--with-libgpod

NOTE: For database support, you will need to have the development (dev) packages for your database distribution installed.

Note: libgpod must be at least version 0.4.2

./configure --prefix=`kde-config --prefix`
make
su -c "make install"

If you are compiling a beta, please consider compiling:

./configure --enable-debug=full --prefix=`kde-config --prefix`

as this greatly helps us to fix crash bugs. You can find details about all the supported configure flags here.

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