Quoting "Wagner, Steven G" <
pcsmartconsulting@netzero.com>:
> 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.
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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
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