Craig White wrote:
>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FC-1 is current version of Red Hat, 8.0 is long out of date and Red Hat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
>
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yum is also available for RH8 (Fedora Legacy). I have a RH 7.3 that I
couldn't update and *loved* it when I got yum installed. (hope somebody
can point out how I can get yum running on a SUSE box). Speaking of
which how *do* you update a SUSE box?
I'm running 8.2 on a x86_64 box. (btw hint Zend doesn't run on 64 yet).
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