John Ó'Ríordáns Blog

I installed KDE4.2.2 recently. I used KDE4.1 for about 5 minutes but uninstalled it because it was very slow, couldn’t do half of what KDE3 seemed to be able to do and was very frustrating. The 4.2.2 release is much nicer. Very polished and stable.

Unfortunately my favourite Linux Application amaroK has been butchered in KDE4. The playlist is shoved to the right and isn’t as intuitive as it groups albums together in a seeming random way. There is a huge panel in the middle that just shows the cover and on the left there are a few menus. Also it doesn’t detect my iPod, or at least I can’t figure out how to drag music into the iPod.

As a result I decided to keep KDE4 but uninstall amaroK2 and install amaroK1. Since I use Kubuntu I had to look for how to do it in Ubuntu. After a bit of googling I found the ubuntu-blog which showed me how to do it. I have pasted the instructions below.

1. echo -e “\n## amarok 1.4 \ndeb http://ppa.launchpad.net/bogdanb/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main\ndeb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/bogdanb/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main” | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
2. sudo apt-get update
3. sudo apt-get install amarok14