i downloaded the exe for the installation of wine, and i have wine running and to make shure it works i opened up notepad with it! when i open up the winamp installation i put the directory for it to b installed into and it just sits there and no bars( the bars showing how much of the installation is completed) go anywhere. it just stays at 0% installation! can someone please help me out with this, or walk me thru installing a good mpeg player for linux?!


thanks

Why not just grab an rpm for xmms? It's a really close clone of Winamp.

is it easy to install and use and everything?

Well, I can't say for certain, as I don't use RH or rpm's but it should be. It comes with Slack - and it may be on your Red Hat disks. As far as ease of use, if you know Winamp you shouldn't have any trouble at all with xmms. Like I say, they're not quite identical but *really* close.

-- Whoops. Wait a sec. Saying 'RH' enough times makes it dawn on me - RH doesn't support mp3s so you'll need to grab the mp3 libraries or whatever. Search this site for 'Red Hat mp3' and you'll turn up a zillion threads on how to fix that. There are probably third party rpms for just that so it should be easy. Just have to issue two commands instead of one, probably.

its winamp for linux pretty much, it even uses the same skins

ok well i got the tar.bz file and i extracted it, then i did the configuration, now what?


thats what i get when i dir in the xmms directory


[zexter@localhost xmms-1.2.8]$ dir
ABOUT-NLS config.status Input missing wmxmms.1
acconfig.h config.sub INSTALL mkinstalldirs wmxmms.1.in
acinclude.m4 configure install-sh NEWS xmms
aclocal.m4 configure.in intl Output xmms.1
AUTHORS COPYING libtool po xmms.1.in
ChangeLog Effect libxmms README xmms-config
config.cache FAQ ltconfig stamp-h1 xmms-config.in
config.guess General ltmain.sh stamp-h1.in xmms.m4
config.h gnomexmms Makefile TODO xmms.spec
config.h.in gnomexmms.1 Makefile.am Visualization xmms.spec.in
config.log gnomexmms.1.in Makefile.in wmxmms



sorry... what do i do now?

Hm. Well, for RH, I suspect rpm would be better but if you want to compile from source, there's the README and INSTALL files, especially - just 'less README' and 'less INSTALL' and they'll tell you.

I tried compiling xmms from source and ran into trouble, so switched to rpm. I don't use redhat, but I think they have some site or service for getting rpms, perhaps someone who uses redhat could post about that. Otherwise you can find it at http://rpmfind.net

There may be dependencies you need to install first, but if so you'll discover that when you try to install xmms. To get it to work on Mandrake I had to install rpms for libxmms and xmms.

It may sound like a bit of a pain, but I'm pretty sure it will be less of a pain than trying to get anything more difficult than notepad to work with wine without the aid of codeweavers.com!

i got it running, i just have to install the plugins now and it should work fine....thanks guys

Although I don't know how well the current versions compare, you might also want to look at Zinf.