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The latest installation instructions for Amarok
Amarok 2.7.1 has been just released and available for Linux and Unix Operating Systems. Amarok 2.7.1 is called “Harbinger”.
From the official announcement:
“The Amarok Team has discovered a very unpleasant bug in QtWebkit ↔ GStreamer interaction that made continuous playing almost impossible, due to frequent crashing.
“We decided to work around it in our code and take it as an opportunity to release a bugfix version. It contains a couple of other fixes we deemed important.”
It comes with a few bug fixes and some new features.
To upgrade to Amarok 2.7.1, on Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Rintail, Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal and Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin, do this:
Add the repo:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports
Update the system:
$ sudo apt-get update
Upgrade Amarok:
$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade