Quoting "Wagner, Steven G" : > I'm really starting to get frustrated and I'm hoping that someone here might > be able to help me. > > Basically, I'm just trying to play .mp3's and .mpegs on my RH8 install. I > have a 60 gig drive, so I installed everything that came with the distro. > Unfortunately, the media players that come with this distro act like they > were programmed by a 3-year old. None of my movies or music plays on any of > the default players. In fact, the players that come with RH8 /seem/ to > completely SUCK. > > Because I'm currently stuck with a cursed winmodem I'm unable to get online, > except with this XP install on my other drive. > > Anyway, I dl'd a Xine .rpm from freshmeat, burned it to cd and tried to > install it, but rpm says there are dependency issues. I'm afraid that if I > waste time hunting down the dependencies that xine needs to install I'll > just end up having dependency problems with each of those files and I'll > spiral into a recursive hell that will end with me delparting my linux drive > and putting XP Pro on it and banishing Linux to my small drive. I hate M$ > and my goal is to completely migrate away from Windoze. > > I hope someone here can help me in some way, if only to point me to a place > where all the files I need are actually conveniently packaged into one sweet > tarball. I don't mind having to hunt around and spend time trying to locate > rare files, etc. if I'm trying to do something "off-the-wall", but I'm > really disappointed that RH8 out of the box won't play my movies or music. > > Thanks for any advice and for maintaining such a great group. > > Steve > > ps- I'm sure that the easiest solution is to get this piece-of-crap on-line > and run some kind of update then try a clean install of xine, but I can't > afford to buy new hardware right now and trying to install the half-assed > linux drivers that I've found for this lucent mars chipset modem is more of > a hassle than I'm willing to deal with right now. > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.605 / Virus Database: 385 - Release Date: 3/1/2004 > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > Let me start by saying that I prefer Debian.. Having said that, heres how I solved the problem you're talking about :) Basically after you install the apt rpms you can then use the apt package system with redhat. Here are two places to get you started: http://freshrpms.net/apt/ http://mgu.mtnsub.org/computers/apt-for-linux.html I don't have xine on my redhat9 system.. heres how I just installed it: [root@twingeckos jd]# apt-cache search xine telnet-server - The server program for the telnet remote login protocol. tftp-server - The server for the Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP). xinetd - A secure replacement for inetd. gxine - A GTK based frontend for the xine multimedia library. libdvdcss - A portable abstraction library for DVD decryption. libdvdcss-devel - Development files from the libdvdcss DVD decryption library. oxine - Lightweight, purely OSD based xine frontend. proftpd - A flexible, stable and highly-configurable FTP Server. totem - Movie player for GNOME 2 based on the xine engine. totem-gstreamer - Movie player for GNOME 2 based on the GStreamer engine. xine - A free multimedia player. xine-lib - Core library for the xine video player. xine-lib-devel - Development files for the xine library. xine-skins - A collection of skins for the Xine video player. [root@twingeckos jd]# apt-get install xine xine-lib-devel xine-skins Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: aalib speex xine-lib xvidcore The following NEW packages will be installed: aalib speex xine xine-lib xine-lib-devel xine-skins xvidcore 0 packages upgraded, 7 newly installed, 0 removed and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 7005kB/7222kB of archives. After unpacking 14.2MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y Get:1 http://ayo.freshrpms.net redhat/9/i386/freshrpms speex 1.0.2-1.fr [216kB] Get:2 http://ayo.freshrpms.net redhat/9/i386/freshrpms xvidcore 0.9.2-2.fr [281kB] Get:3 http://ayo.freshrpms.net redhat/9/i386/freshrpms xine-lib 1.0.0-0.2.rc1.fr [2851kB] Get:4 http://ayo.freshrpms.net redhat/9/i386/freshrpms xine 0.9.22-1.fr [1842kB] Get:5 http://ayo.freshrpms.net redhat/9/i386/freshrpms xine-lib-devel 1.0.0-0.2.rc1.fr [100kB] Get:6 http://ayo.freshrpms.net redhat/9/i386/freshrpms xine-skins 1.6-1.fr [1715kB] Fetched 7005kB in 2m11s (53.3kB/s) Executing RPM (-Uvh)... warning: /var/cache/apt/archives/aalib_1.4rc5-3.fr_i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e42d547b Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:aalib ########################################### [ 14%] 2:speex ########################################### [ 29%] 3:xvidcore ########################################### [ 43%] 4:xine-lib ########################################### [ 57%] 5:xine ########################################### [ 71%] 6:xine-lib-devel ########################################### [ 86%] 7:xine-skins ########################################### [100%] -------------------------------- There you go :) Xine installed! Notice it also grabbed aalib, speex, and xvidcore which I assume are dependencies. You can also keep your system up to date via: apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade. Hope this helps! JD -- JD Austin email: jd@twingeckos.com http://www.twingeckos.com phone/fax: 480.344.2640 --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss