Installation
The new AmaroK is coming and you can already download the version in development. This version is still at an initial stage and therefore the amount of bugs can still be big. However, if you want to try and send reports of bugs to the developers in order to help their development, continue reading.
This application has a new service named Neon, a service that allows the users to have the latest version of AmaroK which is being developed. This service is nothing else than a repository that is always updated and warns your Operating System when there are new updates.
This new AmaroK, which is still at an early stage of development, works at the same time with the normal Amarok in order to prevent serious problems on your reproduction lists, for example. Thus, this experimental version is called amarok-nightly on the one hand to be different and on the other hand to allow both programs to be installed at the same time.
To add this new repository run the following line at the terminal (note that this repository exclusively operates for the Ubuntu Hardy Heron):
After adding this line, you should update the available lists of programs. You can do it in two ways, by the terminal, doing:
After you have updated the lists you can install the new Amarok, or again by the terminal:
or in the window Synaptic Manager Packages, looking for the package amarok-nightly and installing it.
Quicker and easier installation
The line below makes everything the way I said earlier. So, I advise you to copy and paste in the terminal, and wait for it to do the whole process and then the program will be ready for use:
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How to install the new Amarok 2
sudo sh -c "echo \"deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/project-neon/ubuntu hardy main\" >> /etc/apt/sources.list"
sudo apt-get update
or, in graphical mode, opening the window Synaptic Manager packages (System-> Administration-> Synaptic package manager) and clicking on Reload.
sudo apt-get install amarok-nightly
sudo sh -c "echo \"deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/project-neon/ubuntu hardy main\" >> /etc/apt/sources.list" && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install amarok-nightly