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Old 08-02-2004, 12:13 AM   #1
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What does it mean to unpack your front end?

What does the following mean?

Now unpack your frontend (gxine or xine-ui or ...), then:
 
Old 08-02-2004, 12:21 AM   #2
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Front-end usually means they are referring to the User Interface, Look and Feel and Design so to speak. Not the actual code which would be your back-end. the ui in "xine-ui" stands for user interface. Hopes this makes sense.
 
Old 08-02-2004, 12:25 AM   #3
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So what are they asking me to do? (I'm installing Xine)
 
Old 08-02-2004, 12:44 AM   #4
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From what you poosted it looks like they are asking you to unpack or uncompress the package named "gxine" or "xine-ui"
 
Old 08-02-2004, 12:47 AM   #5
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ok i downloaded the Kaffeine "frontend" and upon running ./configue i got this message:

checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please check your installation and add the correct paths!

what do I do?
 
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It's looking for X windows includes. Check the requirements page and install what's needed there. This may solve you issue.
 
  


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