How to compile Amarok 1.4 in Linux Mint 10

This tutorial will explain How-To Compile Amarok 1.4.10 in Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid)>Some users still would like to use amarok 1.4.10.

Preparing your system
First you need to install following packages from your terminal

sudo apt-get install libgpod-common libgpod-dev libgpod4 kdelibs4-dev libxine-dev libtag1-dev libsqlite3-dev libtunepimp-dev libmysqlclient15-dev libpq-dev libvisual-0.4-dev libsdl1.2-dev libifp-dev libxine1 libxine1-ffmpeg build-essential checkinstall

Download amarok  source

cd ~/Downloads
wget http://download.kde.org/stable/amarok/1.4.10/src/amarok-1.4.10.tar.bz2

tar -xvf amarok-1.4.10.tar.bz2
cd amarok-1.4.10

Patchs to Fix The Code (fix for GCC, Cover Manager and Wikipedia lookup)

wget http://yep.it/savedpatch/amarok-1.4.10-gcc44.patch
patch -p1 < amarok-1.4.10-gcc44.patch
wget http://yep.it/savedpatch/amarok-1.4.10-covermanager-fix.patch
patch -p1 < amarok-1.4.10-covermanager-fix.patch

wget http://yep.it/savedpatch/amarok-1.4.10-wikipedia.patch
patch -p1 < amarok-1.4.10-wikipedia.patch

Compile & Install Amarok 1.4.10

./configure --without-arts
make
sudo make install

Restore Original Appication Icons

cd ~/Downloads
wget http://pprc.qmul.ac.uk/~jmorris/personal/amarok/amarok.icons.__usr.share.icons__.tar.gz
sudo cp ~/Downloads/amarok.icons.__usr.share.icons__.tar.gz /usr/share/icons
cd /usr/share/icons
sudo tar zxvf amarok.icons.__usr.share.icons__.tar.gz

That’s it and you are ready to launch amarok application