Hiya i need some serious help i new to linux and i just learned how to install a d@@n program in five days sad huh? n e way i need help i cant play my mp3's on the xmms player or something please help anything will do

are you using redhat by any chance??

cus if you are
you need to go to the xmms homepage and get the extra rpm (program)
that allows redhat to play mp3's
they excluded mp3 support for legal reasons

and for videos you have to install an video player e.g. mplayer, xine,videolanclient....

i get this when i try to install this please help i think i just might go back to windows

Making install in intl
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/lil213/Desktop/Dl's/xmms-1.2.8/intl'
if test "xmms" = "gettext" \
&& test '' = 'intl-compat.o'; then \
/bin/sh `case "./mkinstalldirs" in /*) echo "./mkinstalldirs" ;; *) echo ".././mkinstalldirs" ;; esac` /usr/lib /usr/include; \
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 libintl.h /usr/include/libintl.h; \
/bin/sh ../libtool --mode=install \
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 libintl.a /usr/lib/libintl.a; \
else \
: ; \
fi
if test 'no' = yes; then \
test yes != no || /bin/sh `case "./mkinstalldirs" in /*) echo "./mkinstalldirs" ;; *) echo ".././mkinstalldirs" ;; esac` /usr/lib; \
temp=/usr/lib/t-charset.alias; \
dest=/usr/lib/charset.alias; \
if test -f /usr/lib/charset.alias; then \
orig=/usr/lib/charset.alias; \
sed -f ref-add.sed $orig > $temp; \
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 $temp $dest; \
rm -f $temp; \
else \
if test yes = no; then \
orig=charset.alias; \
sed -f ref-add.sed $orig > $temp; \
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 $temp $dest; \
rm -f $temp; \
fi; \
fi; \
/bin/sh `case "./mkinstalldirs" in /*) echo "./mkinstalldirs" ;; *) echo ".././mkinstalldirs" ;; esac` /usr/share/locale; \
test -f /usr/share/locale/locale.alias \
&& orig=/usr/share/locale/locale.alias \
|| orig=./locale.alias; \
temp=/usr/share/locale/t-locale.alias; \
dest=/usr/share/locale/locale.alias; \
sed -f ref-add.sed $orig > $temp; \
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 $temp $dest; \
rm -f $temp; \
else \
: ; \
fi
if test "xmms" = "gettext"; then \
/bin/sh `case "./mkinstalldirs" in /*) echo "./mkinstalldirs" ;; *) echo ".././mkinstalldirs" ;; esac` /usr/share/gettext/intl; \
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 VERSION /usr/share/gettext/intl/VERSION; \
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ChangeLog.inst /usr/share/gettext/intl/ChangeLog; \
dists="COPYING.LIB-2.0 COPYING.LIB-2.1 Makefile.in config.charset locale.alias ref-add.sin ref-del.sin gmo.h gettextP.h hash-string.h plural-exp.h eval-plural.h os2compat.h libgnuintl.h loadinfo.h bindtextdom.c dcgettext.c dgettext.c gettext.c finddomain.c loadmsgcat.c localealias.c textdomain.c l10nflist.c explodename.c dcigettext.c dcngettext.c dngettext.c ngettext.c plural.y plural-exp.c localcharset.c localename.c osdep.c os2compat.c intl-compat.c"; \
for file in $dists; do \
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./$file \
/usr/share/gettext/intl/$file; \
done; \
chmod a+x /usr/share/gettext/intl/config.charset; \
dists="plural.c"; \
for file in $dists; do \
if test -f $file; then dir=.; else dir=.; fi; \
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 $dir/$file \
/usr/share/gettext/intl/$file; \
done; \
dists="xopen-msg.sed linux-msg.sed po2tbl.sed.in cat-compat.c COPYING.LIB-2 gettext.h libgettext.h plural-eval.c"; \
for file in $dists; do \
rm -f /usr/share/gettext/intl/$file; \
done; \
else \
: ; \
fi
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/lil213/Desktop/Dl's/xmms-1.2.8/intl'
Making install in libxmms
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/lil213/Desktop/Dl's/xmms-1.2.8/libxmms'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/lil213/Desktop/Dl's/xmms-1.2.8/libxmms'
/bin/sh ./../mkinstalldirs /usr/lib
/bin/sh ./libtool --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c libxmms.la /usr/lib/libxmms.la
/usr/bin/install -c .libs/libxmms.so.1.3.0 /usr/lib/libxmms.so.1.3.0
/usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file `/usr/lib/libxmms.so.1.3.0': Permission denied
make[2]: *** [install-libLTLIBRARIES] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/lil213/Desktop/Dl's/xmms-1.2.8/libxmms'
make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/lil213/Desktop/Dl's/xmms-1.2.8/libxmms'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
[lil213@localhost xmms-1.2.8]$