Guest Anselmi Posted September 4, 2004 Report Share Posted September 4, 2004 I´ve been fighting with Linux for only a couple of days, so please forgive me :) I´ve been trying to install Xmms and MPlayer for a whole day and I can´t get any results. I´ve been trying to install RPM packages. Installation seems to go smoothly and there isn´t any errors. After installation I can´t find any shortcuts to the program and Rpmdrake doesn´t know anything about intalled program. Please help me, I´m losing my nerves big time :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkelve Posted September 4, 2004 Report Share Posted September 4, 2004 (edited) Seems everything installed right. Now press Alt+F2 (together) in the box, type: "xmms" (without the quotes) for mplayer, type: "mplayer" Linux is case sensitive though! Edited September 4, 2004 by Darkelve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anselmi Posted September 4, 2004 Report Share Posted September 4, 2004 Done that already, but nothing happens. I´ve no idea where the progs are installed. I got xmms 1.2.9 installed earlier, but I uninstalled it with rpmdrake because it freezed all the time. After that, I haven´t been too succesful with installing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkelve Posted September 4, 2004 Report Share Posted September 4, 2004 (edited) Ah. Maybe it's a bug or something. Could be they are installed but a bug is preventing them from starting up properly... what did you install them with? Can you open a console (type Alt+F2, type 'Konsole' or pick it from the menu). In the new window that appears, if you type 'xmms', what happens? Do you get a line of text? If so, what does it say? Edited September 4, 2004 by Darkelve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anselmi Posted September 4, 2004 Report Share Posted September 4, 2004 (edited) Ok, here´s what I get from Konsole: [aki@a5a aki]$ xmms bash: xmms: command not found I installed progs by downloading them and choosing "Open with software installer (default)". Edited September 4, 2004 by Anselmi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkelve Posted September 4, 2004 Report Share Posted September 4, 2004 (edited) Well, it seems like it didn't get installed after all. - You could try to install it again with the 'software installer'. - Or you could open Konsole, navigate to the folder the rpm is in, and execute: rpm - ivh <nameofpackage>.rpm - Or you can use URPMI: http://www.mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=10600 it is very useful to learn this anyway, will save you a lot of trouble later on. - Or there is a GUI-tool for urpmi, I think it is called "software manager" or something similar. See: http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/demos/Spotlight/SoftwareMgr/ Edited September 4, 2004 by Darkelve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anselmi Posted September 4, 2004 Report Share Posted September 4, 2004 I tried rpm in konsole and here´s the result: [root@a5a Imut]# rpm - ivh xmms-1.2.10-2.norlug.i586.rpm warning: xmms-1.2.10-2.norlug.i586.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 8c55bf81 error: Failed dependencies: libxmms1 = 1.2.10-2.norlug is needed by xmms-1.2.10-2.norlug So xmms won´t install because the libray is missing? Where can I get it and how can I install it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkelve Posted September 4, 2004 Report Share Posted September 4, 2004 (edited) So xmms won´t install because the libray is missing? exactly! Where can I get it and how can I install it? From the source you got it: http://norlug.org/~chipster/rpm_index/cat2 Or if you want to find Rpm's do a search with one of these services: http://rpm.pbone.net/ http://www.rpmfind.net/ Remember I talked about urpmi? Urpmi is a tool which automatically solves and downloads these dependencies for you Edited September 4, 2004 by Darkelve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anselmi Posted September 4, 2004 Report Share Posted September 4, 2004 Thanks! Xmms is now installed! The sad thing is that it still freezes when I hit play :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkelve Posted September 4, 2004 Report Share Posted September 4, 2004 (edited) Maybe it won't if you choose another Audio plugin. Go to 'options -> options' and in 'audio plugin' (or something similar) try to alternate between 'Arts', 'Alsa' and 'Oss'... click 'apply' each time and try to play again and see if it crashes. Edit: of course, everything else failing, you could still try another program, like amaroK, JuK, Rhythmbox, Totem, ... Edited September 4, 2004 by Darkelve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anselmi Posted September 4, 2004 Report Share Posted September 4, 2004 Thanks mate! Xmms is working great and I´m a little bit better with Linux! Now back to mplayer... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mousematt Posted September 5, 2004 Report Share Posted September 5, 2004 Its really very easy to install MPlayer and teach it to play nice with the various multimedia codecs (windows media, quicktime etc). I recently covered it in MandrakeMag: my mandrakelinux e-zine. The relevant issue can be downloaded (as a plain text file) from http://mandrakemag.tux.com.au/archives/Issue01.text To summarize: You need to set up the contrib and PLF URPMI repositories. And then open a konsole. Type "su" and become the administrator. Type "urpmi mplayer mplayerplugin" And wait for it to download and install all of the necessary applications. After that, Mplayer will appear in the MandrakeMenu. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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