Re: Xine problem
- From: "J.O. Aho" <user@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:52:23 +0100
Poma wrote:
"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
You should never use -ivh for packages other than kernels, use -Uvh or else you risk to have double installs of packages, which can lead to real troubles.
User dude does not exist.
Then it shows the installation progress bar upto 100% as below
The person who made the RPM compiled mplayer with his user called dude, which leads to that RPM will try to set the user dude as the owner, as you lack it (which is really good), RPM will set the owner to the person who installs the RPM, which should be root.
This error don't affect the install itself, just check that everyone is allowed to access (read) the files in question.
But rpm -q package shows mplayer is not installed.
This indicates the package you are trying to install is a source rpm, ending with src.rpm, those aren't ready to use, it's the source code of the mplayer.
Tried to get urpmi but its meant for Mandriva. Where can I get it for RH9?
Don't think they ever released any urpmi, you have apt-get, you can get it from here: http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/apt/
Don't know how outdated the repository is, and it seems like fedoralegacy.org is dropping security updates for RH9, so it should be considered as a dead version quite soon.
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.
So why are you asking for urpmi? it's just a mandrivan version of apt.
I wish to learn more about compiling using source code, notwithstanding the
trials and errors but unfortunately all I get is disappointment.
Use an up to date distro in that case, RH9 uses gcc2.96, it's a buggy compiler and wasn't supported by anyone else than RedHat and most of the Open Source projects are making or moving to code that require either gcc3 or gcc4.
If you really want to be compiling, take a look at Linux from Scratch or the easier to use Gentoo.
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//Aho
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