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Installing Amarok

Amarok was removed from stable after a Qt4 package cleanup when Amarok appeared to be abandoned. However, the Debian team has begun reintegrating it into Debian stable. As of writing, Amarok is only available in Trixie (testing) and Sid (unstable).

Please see this Debian wiki page for instructions on how to switch over from stable to testing. After completing the upgrade process, you can run

sudo apt install amarok

And Amarok will install.

Phonon Backends

Amarok plays media via the Phonon multimedia framework. You can choose either GStreamer (recommended) or VLC Phonon backend.

GStreamer

apt-get install phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer

VLC

apt-get install phonon4qt5-backend-vlc

For more on Phonon, see the Phonon page.

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 ==Installing Amarok==
-Amarok can be installed by installing the amarok package. For example, using apt-get:
+Amarok was removed from stable after a Qt4 package cleanup when Amarok appeared to be abandoned. However, the Debian team has begun reintegrating it into Debian stable. As of writing, Amarok is only available in Trixie (testing) and Sid (unstable).
- apt-get install amarok
-'''Amarok versions currently in Debian'''
+Please see [https://wiki.debian.org/DebianTesting this Debian wiki page] for instructions on how to switch over from stable to testing. After completing the upgrade process, you can run
-* The version in [http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/ squeeze (currently stable)] is and always will be [http://packages.debian.org/stable/amarok 2.3.1].
-* The version in [http://backports.debian.org/Instructions/ squeeze-backports] is [http://packages.debian.org/squeeze-backports/sound/amarok 2.4.1] at the moment.
-* The version in [http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/ wheezy (currently testing)] is [http://packages.debian.org/testing/amarok v2.5.90-75-g47e75df (post 2.6-beta1 snapshot)] at the moment.
-* The version in [http://www.debian.org/releases/unstable/ sid (unstable)] is [http://packages.debian.org/unstable/amarok 2.6.0] at the moment.
-==Phonon Backends==
+ sudo apt install amarok
-Amarok plays media via [http://phonon.kde.org/ Phonon multimedia framework]. You can choose either [http://packages.debian.org/stable/phonon-backend-vlc VLC], [http://packages.debian.org/stable/phonon-backend-xine Xine] (Debian stable only) or [http://packages.debian.org/stable/phonon-backend-gstreamer GStreamer] Phonon backend. [http://packages.debian.org/unstable/phonon-backend-vlc VLC backend 0.3.1] or later version is currently recommended (testing/unstable only) . In case of problems, try all backends to see which works best for you.
+And Amarok will install.
-'''VLC'''
+==Phonon Backends==
- apt-get install phonon-backend-vlc
+Amarok plays media via the [http://phonon.kde.org/ Phonon multimedia framework]. You can choose either [https://packages.debian.org/stable/phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer GStreamer] (recommended) or [https://packages.debian.org/stable/phonon4qt5-backend-vlc VLC] Phonon backend.
 '''GStreamer'''
-  apt-get install phonon-backend-gstreamer
+  apt-get install phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer
-'''Xine (Debian stable only, deprecated in later versions)'''
+'''VLC'''
-  apt-get install phonon-backend-xine
+  apt-get install phonon4qt5-backend-vlc
 For more on Phonon, see the [http://community.kde.org/Phonon Phonon] page.