Amarok 2.0 released Can I install over top of amarok 1.4?

[Jeff Mitchell]

Beso wrote:
> 2008/12/12 Robert Smits <bob at rsmits.ca>:
>> On December 11, 2008 12:09:20 pm Robert Smits wrote:
>>
>> Thanks to those of you who replied to my earlier message, telling me I could
>> install Amarok 2 in a KDE 3 environment.
>>
> yes. you just need kdelibs4, kdepimlibs4, phonon, xine-lib and mysql
> compiled with -fPIC.
> the latest is a must and usually it's not compiled that way so you'd
> probably have to
> recompile mysql.

No, that's not true.  Distributions that carry Amarok 2 are generally
compiling mysql with -fPIC now.

>> Next question is can I just install it over top my existing KDE3 Amarok 1.4 or
>> do I need to treat it as a completely new install, set up mysql, etc.
>>
> i'd advise you to do so, since kdelibs and the other kde4 packages
> would overwrite the old
> 3.5 files.

Also not necessarily true.  A lot of distributions compile their
packages with KDE3 and KDE4 in different prefixes, and use ~/.kde for
KDE3 and ~/.kde4 for KDE4.

With this system, they can run side-by-side perfectly.

Even if your distribution doesn't do that, it is possible to install
KDE4 entirely into a separate user account with its own environment, and
then simply run applications from there (you can even be logged into
KDE3 when doing so).

> this way you
> should be able to have
> both amarok 1.5 and 2.0 installed and could switch from one to the

There is no Amarok 1.5.

--Jeff