XMMS - upgrading (rpm) from 1.2.7 to 1.2.10
 

Hi all -

Im using Red Hat 9, and it came with xmms 1.2.7. I'm trying to upgrade to 1.2.10.

The book I'm reading said that in order to upgrade rpms, I have to:

#rpm -Uvh <package-filename>

and I did that, and it seemed to carry out with no problems. When I run xmms (going to 'Audio Player' under 'Sound & Video' as I normally do) it's still saying that 1.2.7 is installed.

The book also metioned having to swap config files manually (.rpmnew, or something to that effect), but i'm not sure where it would be located, being a newbie not totally familiar with the file system yet. I searched the forums and found this, which is similar to my problem:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...xmms+upgrading

however, it addresses installing from source, not rpm.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks so much,

Bill

try this

rpm -e --nodeps xmms

remove all instances of xmms
and then again install xmms

Hi, masand,

K, I removed the old rpm (1.2.7) without a problem. When I try to install the new, here's what I get:

root@localhost root]# cd ..
[root@localhost /]# cd home
[root@localhost home]# cd bill
[root@localhost bill]# rpm -ivh xmms-1.2.10-1.src.rpm
warning: user havardk does not exist - using root
warning: group havardk does not exist - using root
warning: user havardk does not exist - using root
warning: group havardk does not exist - using root
1:xmms ########################################### [100%]
[root@localhost bill]# rpm -qi xmms
package xmms is not installed
[root@localhost bill]#


Am I missing something? I'm still new, am I suppose to ./configure and make it? I didn't think you needed to do that with rpms. Do you see anything here that could be causing a problem?

Man, it seems like the simplist things are giving me the biggest problems, lol.

Anyway, thanks for any help you can give me :)

Bill

Hi again,

BTW, After I "installed" the RPM for 1.2.10, though it said it wasn't installed, I have 2 new xmms directories that were created today:

usr/lib/xmms

and

usr/share/xmms

Don't know if this helps, but i thought I'd share.

Thanks :)

Bill

Ok, actually, I think I just figured something out...

I went back to the xmms website to see if I download the right thing...

It appears that I downloaded a "Source RPM"? I scrolled further down and found a 'regular' rpm (lol) for Red Hat, so I'm going to try that and see if that does the trick.

Does it look like that may have been the problem? And I guess my new question is, What is the difference between a normal RPM and a Source RPM?

Thanks for any info :)

Bill

with a source rpm u can make a nomal binary rpm which wll work for u
so u can downlaod that binary rpm and install xmms.

ahhhhhh, i think i get it.....with the source RPM, i can make a a Binary (or Executable, i guess, in Windows terms) RPM that I can execute. Gotcha. I think, lol. Learning how to do that is a whole new monster im not ready to fight with yet, lol.

Well, I downloaded the binary and it worked fine. The only problem I am having now is that when I try to play and mp3, the little bar goes by real quick (like it's playing the mp3 really fast) and doesnt make any sound. I read a post about that by accident on this forum, but I am having a hard ime finding it now. You wouldnt happen to know why, would ya?

Anywhy, thanks again man, sorry for being such a noob, lol.

Bill :)

righ click on xmms
go to preferencs
and in the O/P plugin change the disk writer plugin to some other plugin

regards

Worked like a charm.... :)

Thanks again for all ur help :)

Bill

i am glad that it helped

regards