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lio

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From: Montréal, Canada

Registered: 2009-09-13

Posts: 52

how to install amarok 1.4.x now that amarok2 is out ?[SOLVED]

hello everyone,

My system is using xfce. i woud like to install amarok 1.4.latest since amarok 2 does not have an equalizer, neither does rythmbox and neither exaile.

how can i do that without pacman trying to constantly upgrading it ?
I read the wiki entry about package downgrading but it is not clear to me if thats what i want to do. actually it is very unclear for someone that is new to archlinux how downgrading anything is done safely and permanantly.

Honestly i dont see how it can be that there is no music player that include an equalizer using the current pacman repositories...unless there is another music player that i dont know of ??? that would be very nice.

please give me a hint how to achieve that , i just bought some very nice headphones and i would like to adjust my sound

thanks a lot

Last edited by lio (2009-10-04 01:32:06)

skottish

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Re: how to install amarok 1.4.x now that amarok2 is out ?[SOLVED]

The pacman wiki article explains what to do. Or if you like man pages, 'man pacman.conf' does also.

lio

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From: Montréal, Canada

Registered: 2009-09-13

Posts: 52

Re: how to install amarok 1.4.x now that amarok2 is out ?[SOLVED]

ill give the solution now, i lost so much time on that...
theres is a package named amarok1 in the AUR which i the latest amarok 1.x.x

so basicly once you have installed yaourt and configure it the command to get the amarok which as an equalizer is

yaourt -S amarok1

edit: for some reason it will only build succesfully as root

Last edited by lio (2009-10-04 01:31:13)

FrozenFox

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From: College Station, TX

Registered: 2008-03-23

Posts: 422

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Re: how to install amarok 1.4.x now that amarok2 is out ?[SOLVED]

Fyi, unless I'm misunderstanding you, xmms and xmms clones (audacious, qmmp, beep media player, etc) all have equalizers..