Re: media won't play on RH8

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).
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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FC-1 is current version of Red Hat, 8.0 is long out of date and Red Hat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

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