On Sat, 2004-04-03 at 20:58, technomage wrote: > your box insn't the problem and neither is redhat (for what it does). > > redhat is more of an "office oriented" distro these days. > > Still, there are some licensing issues when it comes to MP3's and AVI's and > other multimedia formats. > > I have found using urpmi along with several mirrors for rpms can be of great > help in loading rpms that have diverse dependencies (I run mandrake here and > ran into that a while ago). > > if you can get a list of dependencies, you can request they all be installed > by name using urpmi. its a lot like apt-get in its capability, though not > quite as user friendly or functional. still, for redhat, its a pretty good > command line tool. > > also, what version of redhat are you using (this makes a difference in what > mirrors, etc you can get to without incurring dependency hell). ---- The original answer to the original post had enough info to make it work - simply installing apt-get and then apt-get install xmms-mp3 would have been enough to handle the music and apt-get install gxine would have installed the media player and the necessary codecs to play most mpeg content. apt-get is fully available for RH 8/9/FC-1 - yum is installed by default on FC-1 FC-1 is current version of Red Hat, 8.0 is long out of date and Red Hat 9 EOL's the end of this month...FC-2 is apparently RSN. All of the current distro's are more than capable of handling/installing necessary dependencies in conjunction with installing new packages so whether it's Mandrake, SuSE, Debian, Red Hat, Gentoo or ??? is probably not material. I'm not sure that I agree with your characterization that Red Hat 8 is an office oriented distro and certainly wouldn't agree to that characterization if we were talking about Fedora (FC-1/FC-2) but would agree with that if we were talking about Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Craig --------------------------------------------------- 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