Amarok 1.4 on ubuntu 10.4

From Cryptolife

Despite Ubuntu 10.4 Lucid Lynx has amarok 2.3 with some nice features. Many people still like Amarok 1.4,
i'm one among them. In this short howto I will show how to install amarok 1.4 avoiding problems with
broken packages and unresolved dependencies. (Thanks to Bogdan Butnaru for for maintaining Amarok 1.4)

1) We need to add the gpg authentication key

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys AE74AE63

2) We need to add the ppa repository

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/bogdanb/amarok14/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/bogdanb/amarok14/ubuntu jaunty main

3) A source update is required

apt-get update

4) Install amarok 1.4 (you might get the libmysqlclient15off broken pakage error)

apt-get install amarok14



The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  amarok14: Depends: libmysqlclient15off (>= 5.0.27-1) but it is not installable
E: Broken packages

5) To fix the error aboove you need to manually install a few packages.

apt-get install mysql-common


wget http://hr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/m/\
mysql-dfsg-5.0/libmysqlclient15off_5.1.30really5.0.83-0ubuntu3_i386.deb

dpkg -i libmysqlclient15off_5.1.30really5.0.83-0ubuntu3_i386.deb

http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/i386/libmysqlclient15off/download

6) And and finally proceed with amarok installation.

apt-get install amarok14

7) At this point you can run amarok and enjoy :-)

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