Comment 9 for bug 316889

Actually, I'm not so sure about the part with "gdebi --apt-line”. I don't remember exactly how I installed the deb files, a double click might have been enough (but make sure you start with amarok-common and then install amarok itself).

You can also get the source package for amarok, hack it so the package receives a different name (like "amarok14" instead of "amarok"), and then build and install that one. This has the advantage that dependencies are handled automatically by aptitude and update-manager, but they don't try to update amarok to the repository version (2.*).