I love Amarok. On every Linux Distros i installed, i must have Amarok as my default media player. Too bad, at new release Ubuntu (9.04 a.k.a Jaunty Jackalope) they replaced Amarok 1.4 with new Amarok 2. I really don’t like it. Looks so ugly with all gray interface. Remind me of Windows 311 era.

I tried Amarok-2 for a few days. and i gave up. I have to back to Amarok 1.4, the best Media Player (at least in my opinion).
I must find a way to installed Amarok 1.4 from repository. Compile manually? no.. Please dont!
And thanks God, they still keep the Amarok 1.4 version at PPA.

Here’s the step for installing Amarok 1.4 at Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope)

1. Add the PPA repositories to your sources list.

sudo pico /etc/apt/sources.list.d/amarok.list

Then add this:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/bogdanb/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/bogdanb/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

2. Add the key for the PPA:

sudo apt-key adv –recv-keys –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com \ 0×1d7e9dd033e89ba781e32a24b9f1c432ae74ae63

if its not working, try with this:

sudo apt-key adv –keyserver subkeys.pgp.net –recv-keys AE74AE63

3. When successful, update your sources.

sudo apt-get update

remove Amarok 2

sudo apt-get remove amarok

Install the Amarok 1.4

sudo apt-get install amarok14

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