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Tarball Compilation Instructions for Amarok 2.x

Extract the downloaded tarball thus:

tar xJf amarok-x.y.z.tar.xz

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

tar xJf amarok-2.9.0.tar.xz

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

cd amarok-2.x.y.z

Create a build directory as to not pollute the sources:

mkdir amarok-x.y.z-build

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. Alternatively you can look for find_package calls in CMakeLists.txt. If you aren't sure if you have these dependencies installed, then cmake will tell you.

Change into the build directory:

cd amarok-x.y.z-build

and compile Amarok with the following commands:

cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config --prefix`
make
sudo make install

If you are compiling and installing as a regular user, call cmake with

-DDBUS_INTERFACES_INSTALL_DIR=/home/someuser

so that these files are not installed to a system location that you cannot write to.

If you are compiling development version, please consider compiling with debug enabled:

cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config --prefix` -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=debugfull

as this greatly helps us to fix crash bugs.

You're done! Type amarok to start Amarok.

Note that your cmake preferences are saved in CMakeCache.txt, so you don't have to have the -D options every time you run cmake.

ccmake will give you a nice ncurses interface.