Having tried other distros recently i was surprised by the lack of MP3 and NTFS suport, however the help from pervious posts here has been pretty good. I'm still having a little problem with MP3's tho. i have installed XMMS using the 'add/remove applications' option. i get the ususal message when i try to player my old mp3's. i have tried installing a completely new version from xmms.org and i get the error
configure: error: no acceptable C complier found in $path

i have tried to install a complier using the 'add/remove applications' adding 'development tools' and get the error (in a nice little error window)

Package Not Found

The following package could not be found on your system. Installation cannot continue until it is installed.

unlocatlabe package required by
libxml2 ('libxml2-python','2.6.16','3')


any ideas?

thanks in advance

looks like your FC3 install did not include devel/lib packages... bust out your CDs and see if you can't locate the packages, or do things like
'yum install gcc'
until you have satisfied the dependencies...

thanks, that solves the C compiler issue. found and other after i tred the ./config again

***The glib-config script installed by GLIB could not be found
***If GLIB was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in
***yout path, or set the GLIB_CONFIG enviroment variable to the
***full path or to glib-config.
configure: error: *** GLIB >= 1.2.2 not installed - please install first***


i'm guessing i have to install GLIB (dunno what it is tho).
any ideas on where it might be hiding?

Ah, the reason why I install using the "EVERYTHING" checkbox.

libglib-1.2.so is found in the glib-1.2.10-15 package. (You'll be chasing dependancies for a while).
[Edit: if you are determined on compiling, use the packages outlined in the next post, it's a far more complete listing ]

Otherwise, I use MP3s with XMMS using the livna,
http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/3/i386/RPMS.stable/
package xmms-mp3. You can also find it here:
http://heidelberg.freshrpms.net/rpm.html?id=400

http://freshmeat.net/projects/glib/

you should be able to yum for these:

ok, i''ll try the rpm 1st

have downloaded xmms-mp3-1.2.10-0.lvn.2.3.i386.rpm

double clicked and it asked me to continue and i did, and it finshed and closed the dialog box

now what?

ah...
restart it


thanks lots guys. saved again from going back to windows.

my next challenge will be WMA, unless this suports them as well

[edit]ya beat me! guess this post ain't relevant anymore...[/edit]

ummm... been a while since i've had these problems (since i ain't used FC basically since core 1), but wouldn't xmms be patched now, and therefore be able to play mp3s -- give 'er a whirl, and let us know... otherwise try and document any errors/messages

ok, how do you do wma's then?
this dont seem to like them at all.

Try this:
http://heidelberg.freshrpms.net/rpm.html?id=398
I don't know if it will work for all (or even some) files, but it may be good enough. You may also need to pull the xine packages down to go with this too (DVD support, etc).

I highly recommend you to download the xine program from www.xine.org a program capable to view almost all types of video and audio files, it has also nice skins :-)

Hail to all LinuxQuestions.org users, thats my first post.

The MP3 thing is not an error. MP3 support was removed from the app because the patented mp3 format itself is theoretically GPL incompatible.

No, it is not GPL incompatible.

The issue is that Red Hat would have to pay a royalty to every copy of Fedora and Red Hat that they ship with mp3 support.

I'm sure you can see the problem ...

would these be of help

http://dag.wieers.com/packages/xmms-wma/
http://dag.wieers.com/packages/xmms-mp3/

Yeah I used those for mine and it's up and running