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Installing Amarok
Amarok can be installed by installing the amarok package. For example, using apt-get:
apt-get install amarok
Amarok versions currently in Debian
- The version in wheezy (currently stable) is 2.5.90-75-g47e75df (post 2.6-beta1 snapshot) at the moment.
- The version in wheezy-backports is 2.6.0 at the moment.
- The version in sid (unstable) is 2.6.0 at the moment.
- The version in experimental is 2.7.0 at the moment.
Phonon Backends
Amarok plays media via Phonon multimedia framework. You can choose either VLC (recommended) or GStreamer Phonon backend.
VLC
apt-get install phonon-backend-vlc
GStreamer
apt-get install phonon-backend-gstreamer
Xine (Debian oldstable only, deprecated in later versions)
apt-get install phonon-backend-xine
For more on Phonon, see the Phonon page.
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