Re: Audio CD Issue...

From: Jacob Heider (lord-jacob_at_comcast.net)
Date: 01/18/04 

Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 06:39:46 GMT

On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 04:04:13 +0000, JTS wrote:

<top posting fixed>

> On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 02:37:00 +0000, Lenard wrote:
>> No, but it does help depending on the application. You could use xmms to
>> play the audio CD's digitally (similar to Windows) if you download and
>> install a little xmms addon RPM file called xmms-cdread.
>>
>> http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/910597/com/xmms-cdread-0.14-0.fdr.4.a.1.i386.rpm.html
>>
>> After installation as root, you can as a normal user start/run xmms and
>> then press CTRL+P, select the Input plugins 'CD Audio Player' and click on
>> the Configure button and change the Play mode to Digital audio extraction.
> Okay, I went to that site and downloaded that rpm, I have a problem
> being that when I try to install it, I get:
>
> D: opening db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages joinenv
> D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages rdonly mode=0x0
> D: locked db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages
> D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Name rdonly mode=0x0
> package xmms-cdread-0.14-0.fdr.4.a.1.i386.rpm is not installed
> D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Name
> D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages
> D: closed db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages
>

This may seem obvious, but are you installing as root? That is, have you
done a 'su -' and entered your root password first? And are you using the
command line 'rpm -ivh xmms-cdread-0.14-0.fdr.4.a.1.i386.rpm'?

> Another problem I seem to run into a lot, is that I've only been
> using Linux for 8 days. ;) I'm just trying to get everything
> setup and working to see if I'll make Linux my Go-To-OS.
> What am I doing wrong or overlooking here? I notice that one of
> its dependencies is libc.so.6, which I don't appear to have, but

I would be very (;-)) surprised if you didn't. What does 'locate
libc.so.6' return?

> am not sure. Anyway to find out? Can ya nudge me in the right
> direction?
>

Stick with it. It is well worth it.

HTH
Jacob

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