Re: Xine problem


"beowulf@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <r.oelerich@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Feb 23, 10:26 pm, "Poma" <p...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi all,

I got Xine fromwww.xinehq.defor RH9.
...

Having been a former Mandriva user, which uses the Redhat package
manager system (.rpm) I would highly suggest installing xine using an
rpm package, or even much much better setup and configure urpmi
(similar to apt-get) then all you do is open a terminal and
#urpmi -i xine
and everything installs as required appropriate for your version.

Alternatively, why even use xine? Many consider mplayer far superior,
has many skins, and has a nice set of win32 codecs to easily download
for playing almost all video file formats including those native to MS-
Windows, and can work within Firefox for playing multimedia off the
web.



I got MPlayer rpm and when I do rpm -ivh package(mplayer), I get the error

User dude does not exist.
Then it shows the installation progress bar upto 100% as below

#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-# = 100%

But rpm -q package shows mplayer is not installed.

Tried to get urpmi but its meant for Mandriva. Where can I get it for RH9?

Sometime back someone said why using RH9, an old distro. I have had Ubuntu,
FC5 and 6 and until few days ago I was on Suse 10.2. Agreed they have the
ease of installing rpms and such packages thru Synaptic, apt, yum, yast. But
thats akin to ease of Windows world.
I wish to learn more about compiling using source code, notwithstanding the
trials and errors but unfortunately all I get is disappointment.

Poms.

PS: Even Pan newsreader isn't helping me much on RH9 and IMHO, OE is better
for instant responses. For some reason, Pan still gets me backdated
messages, in other words, it fails to get all headers/bodies in one go.
Hence, I sometimes use OE.


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