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Installing Amarok

Amarok was removed from stable after a obsolete Qt4 package cleanup, when Amarok appeared to be dead. 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 obsolete Qt4 package cleanup, when Amarok appeared to be dead. 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/ wheezy (currently stable)] is and always will be [http://packages.debian.org/stable/amarok 2.5.90-75-g47e75df (post 2.6-beta1 snapshot)].
-* The version in [http://wiki.debian.org/Backports wheezy-backports] is [http://packages.debian.org/wheezy-backports/sound/amarok 2.6.0] at the moment.
+ sudo apt install amarok
-* The version in [http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/ testing (jessie)] is [http://packages.debian.org/testing/amarok 2.7.1] at the moment.
-* The version in [http://www.debian.org/releases/unstable/ sid (unstable)] is [http://packages.debian.org/unstable/amarok 2.8.0] at the moment.
+And Amarok will install.
 ==Phonon Backends==
-Amarok plays media via the [http://phonon.kde.org/ Phonon multimedia framework]. You can choose either [http://packages.debian.org/stable/phonon-backend-vlc VLC] (recommended) or [http://packages.debian.org/stable/phonon-backend-gstreamer GStreamer] Phonon backend.
+Amarok plays media via the [http://phonon.kde.org/ Phonon multimedia framework]. You can choose either [http://packages.debian.org/stable/phonon-backend-gstreamer GStreamer] (recommended) or [http://packages.debian.org/stable/phonon-backend-vlc VLC] Phonon backend.
 '''GStreamer'''
-  apt-get install phonon-backend-gstreamer
+  apt-get install phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer
 '''VLC'''
-  apt-get install phonon-backend-vlc
+  apt-get install phonon4qt5-backend-vlc
-Please note that some Amarok features might not be available with this backend. See ''/usr/share/doc/amarok/README.Debian'' (2.8.0-1 or later) for details.
-'''Xine (Debian oldstable only, deprecated in later versions)'''
- apt-get install phonon-backend-xine
 For more on Phonon, see the [http://community.kde.org/Phonon Phonon] page.