Hello all,

Nice to being among Linux users finally. I am total newbie when it comes to linux systems and I justt installed FC 2 on my system. Hoever I have been running into some problems lately.

VLC

I got the vlc binaries packet from the site and uncompressed as instructed there however when I try to install it as the root it give me the following errors.

[root@localhost vlc]# rpm -U vlc/* --force
warning: vlc/a52dec-0.7.4-6.1.fc2.fr.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e42d547b
error: Failed dependencies:
fribidi is needed by vlc-0.7.2-1
gnome-libs is needed by vlc-0.7.2-1
libart_lgpl.so.2 is needed by vlc-0.7.2-1
libfribidi.so.0 is needed by vlc-0.7.2-1
libgnome.so.32 is needed by vlc-0.7.2-1
libgnomesupport.so.0 is needed by vlc-0.7.2-1
libgnomeui.so.32 is needed by vlc-0.7.2-1

I had this problem on the past weekend as well and I assumed that I must have messed up the gnome libraries somehow during installation so I reinstalled the OS last nite. But it seens that the probem is persistent. ANy clues?

Sound Card

I was having this problem too until google mentioned something about alsa. So I am going to check that out before making further questions here.

Firefox

So I try installing Firefox on FC2 bcos thats what i used on Windows. But after downlaoding the packet, it opens with a lot of*.ini files....

Isn't *.ini related to windows files???

On a general note, Evolution or Thunderbird??

This is just the first day, I am sure I will be shooting questions all around about linux here . Thanks for the help guys.

Hi,
About VLC,
It is complaining about missing dependancies, did you install gnome? anyway, go to http://rpmfind.net/ and search for the libraries, or install them from the FC media(CD´s/DVD)

About The SoundCard,
maybe the sound is muted? sometimes you have to play a little with the sound controls, for example i have to turn up all the VIA DXS, anyway, open a terminal and type: alsamixer, kmix, or aumix
Maybe your problem doesn´t have anything to do with it, but it is the most common cause for sound related problem

About Firefox,
Did you download the one for Linux?
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

Well.. yeah I did install GNOME and I even updated my kernel and any other packages available. I remember having the libs there. I will try going to rpmfind and see what I can do.
I got firefox working... I still haven't tried alsa for sound card. How do I uninstall something here?

I have using gnome mostly but I switched to KDE to try it and I didn't find any big differences there What makes the distinction between the two?

What is VIA DXS??

Ok....
It depends, is it a rpm? you basically do: rpm -e
did you compile it from source? it is usually make uninstall or if you installed from a bin file, you can also do: make uninstallbin
If you want to learn Linux, open a terminal and start working there, do most of your task there, it is easy to learn bash(Bourne Again Shell).
you can use the man and info command to see the documentation for any command, ex: man rpm

Mostly it is just a matter of taste, i like Kde more, but Gnome is good either, people like Gnome for it clearness and the fact it is intuitive, i dont know, you have to use both and decide. Both of them are Window Managers, there are others like blackbox, fluxbox, ....
Use them, see some screenshot of other people desktops, and decide, www.kde-look.org http://gnome-look.org/
nice places for eyecandy
They are channels, which i think it is related to my motherboard chipset, The technicall description i don´t know,(if somebody know please post it) . also PCM must be turn all up,
Now maybe you dont have those channels, so don´t worry. maybe you have to disable arts , search it in Kde Control Center, or search for esd if you are using Gnome,
Check that to see if your sound card works.
When you manage to fix your audio, you will face a new problem, there is no mp3 support for Fedora!!
But it can be fix really quickly.
Hope it helps,

So what do I exactly do when I start seeing these rpm's?? I can see list of about hundreds from rpmfind.net so I am picking the ones matching best to my OS... is that right?

So how am I to implement them? Run them or ave them somewhere??

Also,anyone ever got MacOS X dock for GNOME... I have been looking for that. can't find one nor I am sure if I it would be stable enough. I am new enough not to know much about the system anyways. I would have even more trouble otherwise if the system starts crashing.

[Yes, you choose the ones according to your OS,
you open a terminal, and type: rpm -ivh <filename> . Again type man rpm for more information.
About the conflict of packages you have, are you sure you installed them?
try to find them, use find, whereis or locate, for example: locate fribidi

Any specific foler or directory where thet need to be saved?? By th eway here is a sample of using find/ locate/ whereis

[agarwal@localhost agarwal]$ locate fribidi
[agarwal@localhost agarwal]$ find fribidi
find: fribidi: No such file or directory
[agarwal@localhost agarwal]$ whereis fribidi
fribidi:
[agarwal@localhost agarwal]$

Same thing I got for another package....

[agarwal@localhost agarwal]$ locate gnome-libs
[agarwal@localhost agarwal]$ whereis gnome-libs
gnome-libs:
[agarwal@localhost agarwal]$ find gnome-libs
find: gnome-libs: No such file or directory
[agarwal@localhost agarwal]$

..and I am sure about installing all the libs on GNOME when installing them. Can I pop-in my installtion CD to check without reinstalling the system though?

A rpm file is a binary package, it doesn´t matter in which directory you´re, it will be installed in other directories for example in /usr/bin and /usr/lib or anywhere, you have to be root to install rpms, so open up a terminal and type this: su - (login as root)
Now you can install.
about the locate command, you probably have to do this first(as root): updatedb (stands for update database)
Now, if you installed Gnome, then you must have the libgnome* files installed, and you should not have any dependancies problem about gnome libraries, i don´t know, maybe you should update the gnome rpms? but i don´t think so,
do this, cd /usr/lib and then ls libgnome.so.32
you should see that file.
Anyway, your problem about gnome libs dependancies seems odd to me, make sure you have the other packages, and download them & install.
then you can try installing VLC with --nodeps .
Or just use another media player

Well after doing what u told.. the problem doesn't seem so odd to be... look at this

[agarwal@localhost lib]$ ls libgnome*
libgnome-2.so.0 libgnome-media-profiles.so.0.0.0
libgnome-2.so.0.600.0 libgnomeprint-2-2.so.0
libgnomecanvas-2.so.0 libgnomeprint-2-2.so.0.1.0
libgnomecanvas-2.so.0.600.0 libgnomeprintui-2-2.so.0
libgnomecups-1.0.so.1 libgnomeprintui-2-2.so.0.1.0
libgnomecups-1.0.so.1.0.0 libgnomeui-2.so.0
libgnome-desktop-2.so.2 libgnomeui-2.so.0.600.0
libgnome-desktop-2.so.2.1.12 libgnomevfs-2.so.0
libgnome-keyring.so.0 libgnomevfs-2.so.0.600.0
libgnome-keyring.so.0.0.0 libgnomevfs-pthread.so
libgnome-mag.so.1 libgnomevfs.so.0
libgnome-mag.so.1.0.10 libgnomevfs.so.0.0.0
libgnome-media-profiles.so libgnome-window-settings.so.1
libgnome-media-profiles.so.0 libgnome-window-settings.so.1.0.0

libgnomeprint:
2.6.0
[agarwal@localhost lib]$

See. No libgnome.so.32. Bad GNOME, bad bad GNOME.

More news: The package libgnome.so.32 is not there in the installation disc as well nor it is on this extensive list . Could VLC be acting screwy an I need to get it package by package??

btw, how do i use nodeps command?

I am coming back to linux after 2 years on xp (what the hell was i thinking) anyways i am trying to install vlc and i have all the rpms instal;led but here is the output thread i am recieving

[root@localhost vlc]# rpm -ivh *.rpm
warning: lame-3.96.1-2.1.fc3.fr.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e42d547b
warning: libcdio-0.70-0.fdr.1.2.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 8df56d05
warning: package libmodplug = 1:0.7-2vlc was already added, replacing with libmodplug <= 1:0.7-3vlc
warning: package libpostproc = 1.0-0.11.pre5.1.fc2.fr was already added, replacing with libpostproc <= 1.0-0.12.20041025.1.fc3.fr
warning: package vcdimager = 0.7.20-1.1.vlc was already added, replacing with vcdimager <= 0.7.20-3
error: Failed dependencies:
mozilla >= 1.7.3 is needed by vlc-0.8.1-1.i386

I am running fedora core 3 it came with that version of mozilla as welll as firefox so what im wondering is if i need to put mozilla in the path and if so how do i do it cause i am having to give myself a crash refresher course in linux and im amazed that i even got java and flash installed so easily...

I am having a similar problem when I am trying to install the vlc on an F3:
[root@alp vlc]# rpm -Uvh *.rpm
warning: a52dec-0.7.4-7.1.fc3.fr.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e42d547b
warning: package libmodplug = 1:0.7-2vlc was already added, replacing with libmodplug <= 1:0.7-3vlc
warning: package libpostproc = 1.0-0.11.pre5.1.fc2.fr was already added, replacing with libpostproc <= 1.0-0.12.20041025.1.fc3.fr
error: Failed dependencies:
mozilla >= 1.7.3 is needed by vlc-0.8.1-1.i386

My firefox shows version 1.7.3 , so why am I getting this error ?
Any help will be appriciated..

thanks