Installing
I have no idea how to install anything. I'm using Fedora at the moment, and I'm trying to get mp3s to run in XMMS, but redhat has disabled mp3 support. I have the RPM for the latest version of XMMS, but I have no idea how to install it. And I have the tgz file for Divx 5.11 and I have no idea how to install that either. Could anyone point in the direction of a good and simple guide to installing on Linux. This is my very first time running Linux, so majoy newbie. :newbie:
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rpm -Uvh whatever.rpm
does it. tar zxvf filename.tar.gz or filename.tgz extracts the files. it may be source, so you would have to enter the directory, run ./configure then make then make install |
i have the same problems. I also want to install a windows media player, quicktime, flash, shockwave plugins. Im not sure why it doesnt come with all that stuff?
Im a newbie, and this is a bit advanced for me. If you could be a little more detailed and go through each step, I would be stoked. Thanks rpm -Uvh whatever.rpm does it. tar zxvf filename.tar.gz or filename.tgz extracts the files. it may be source, so you would have to enter the directory, run ./configure then make then make install" " |
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>> i have the same problems. I also want to install a windows media player, quicktime, flash, >> shockwave plugins. Im not sure why it doesnt come with all that stuff?
mplayer can play a lot of that stuff, if you compile it by yourself, and set up your browser to use mplayer to play that stuff. those are closed source applications, and you can't just make a few changes and stick them in a linux distribution. that stuff is covered by patents too. inconvenient, but that's why. rpm-redhat package manager .tgz. tar gzipped. sort of like a zip file. |
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I got my mplayer working...thank the lord for YUM!!!!!!!!! next step - flash,java. to bad these dont come in rpm :( cant get gIFTOXIC working also. When i open it, it closes just as fast. |
Do you actually have giFT installed? giFToxic is only a front-end to giFT.
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[mike@localhost mike]$ giftd -d
giftd: error while loading shared libraries: libltdl.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory i loaded gIFTOXIC with YUM. I love YUM, cuz i suck at the terminal :( |
Did you install development packages? libltdl is libtool, I think. I'd be surprised if you had installed devel packages and yet didn't have that installed. Yeah, having done s brief search that particular file is shared library files for libtool.
Try: ftp://chuck.ucs.indiana.edu/pub/arra...3.5-9.i386.rpm though I can't promise that's right |
the link u gave me didnt open, but i will download it from http://rpm.pbone.net/
http://rpm.pbone.net/ is the best website in the world! (besides this one ;) thanks again...i will post my results :study: THANKS!!!!!!!!!!! |
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I wish I had good news .....gFTP works, giFToxic, no I bet i made a big mess of it downloading to many packages :/ |
Did you install libtool? What errors are you getting? We want to help damn it!! :D
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There were some if you go through far enough. The few I found were on page 5 or something. Try some RedHat rpms, you might find they work. Afterall, you're only installing a library, it probably just pops everything into /usr/lib anyway! Other than that the source version is available on the libtool homepage (search google).
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hahahaha! stupid me! I didnt see that there were more pages! thanks!
so, if i install a package i dont need, it wont hurt me? |
when i loaded it, YUM froze up, and I had to force quit. After I do that, I have to re-boot to be able to load more packages. Im not sure why it freezes up on me like that.....
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Use rpm -i packagename to install it.
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yum probably crashes, and is still running in the background. if you run top or whatever you want, you will probably see that it is still running. if it runs under the name yum, you can killall -9 yum. then you will not have to reboot.
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