Yankee Posted October 20, 2006 Report Share Posted October 20, 2006 So far as I can tell XMMS is not in Mandriva 2007. I will never understand why but I added it in from v2005. You can find it on any of the FTP's that have Mandriva. Anyone know why it is gone? Mandriva is really screwing up some things in my opinion. There are two control centers and should just be one. Sometimes I really wish someone would make a version that stays the same from version to version as in STUFF IN THE SAME PLACE! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted October 20, 2006 Report Share Posted October 20, 2006 What urpmi sources do you have added? Maybe this is why you can't find it. I'm not in Linux now to check, but I'm sure you can get it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yankee Posted October 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2006 Just the DVD but it is not on there. I just can't see a good reason to exclude it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted October 20, 2006 Report Share Posted October 20, 2006 You need to add your urpmi sources for main/contrib/updates from the easyurpmi page. They can't include everything on the DVD, just isn't possible. So you can get it from the repositories - once you've added them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted October 20, 2006 Report Share Posted October 20, 2006 XMMS is available on the mirrors for download. As said, it's impossible to pack all packages onto one CD as Mandriva has some 15 000 packages! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ceco Posted October 26, 2006 Report Share Posted October 26, 2006 i've tryedin XMMS with mdv 2007 and it was very laggy.I hope they will make a newer, updated version of XMMS with more features... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AussieJohn Posted October 26, 2006 Report Share Posted October 26, 2006 Mandriva confines the Free to usually 3 cdroms and the dvd is usually jut that even though the dvd has nearly twice that capacity. Why they don't make it up to four cds I really cannot fathom. Now days an extra cdrom is not a big deal. This would mean that more choices could be made at install time. Mandriva seems to favour Amarok over XMMS for itss own reasons. I personally prefer XMMS though. XMMS is available in either Main or Contribs, not sure which at the moment but it is there. Mandriva did the same thing with 2006 and now with 2007. Cheers. John. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted October 27, 2006 Report Share Posted October 27, 2006 Amarok and xmms aren't comparable, but gtk2 based xmms clones like beep-media-player and xmms2 certainly are... factly, they are much prettier for starters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AussieJohn Posted October 27, 2006 Report Share Posted October 27, 2006 (edited) I don't know about you but I use XMMS to listen to my music and not to spend time looking at it. Cheers. John. Edited October 27, 2006 by AussieJohn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edwardp Posted November 2, 2006 Report Share Posted November 2, 2006 Mandriva confines the Free to usually 3 cdroms and the dvd is usually jut that even though the dvd has nearly twice that capacity.Why they don't make it up to four cds I really cannot fathom. Now days an extra cdrom is not a big deal. This would mean that more choices could be made at install time. Mandriva seems to favour Amarok over XMMS for itss own reasons. I personally prefer XMMS though. XMMS is available in either Main or Contribs, not sure which at the moment but it is there. Mandriva did the same thing with 2006 and now with 2007. Cheers. John. Actually, Mandriva Linux Free 2007 is on four CD's. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AussieJohn Posted November 2, 2006 Report Share Posted November 2, 2006 You are surely correct. I am using the DVD Free so I know what is in the DVD will be in the CDs and assumed it was a 3CD set. However my basic comment stands. Cheers. John. I noticed that the DVD has packages for 64bit installs as well and thought that was why the DVD had a larger size. That would explain the extra CDrom and still restricting the number of worthwhile packages such as XMMS. JB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qchem Posted November 2, 2006 Report Share Posted November 2, 2006 I guess the thinking is that XMMS is pretty old and outdated. Of course some people (including me) would argue this is rubbish. As long as it can be easily downloaded I'm not too upset. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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