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Hello every one--I need a program to play my dvd's. My linux(suse) is not yet online so, can I download somthing with my windows cp and put on a disc and load it to my cp that runs linux?
THANK YOU
TWOSPEED
Xine or mplayer perhaps? You really have a million choices. Try Xine out if you like..
I'm pretty positive you can download stuff with another computer, then transfer it to yours and install, but since I have never ever used YaST, I can't tell how it works but it would sound very stupid if you only could use the internet, so go ahead, download and see how it works. I don't think it's that difficult.
By the way, it's pc not cp. cp is a program for copying files, in Unix and Unix-like systems. pc stands for Personal Computer, whereas I'd say cp stands for Copy.
Or maybe he meant pc ( personal computer ), or that could be his abbreviation for computer ( cp ? ). Regardless, of course you can download source archives and packages ( rpm, deb, depends on OS ) to portable media and transfer them to your Linux box. The potential heartache would be if you are missing dependencies for either, b/c then you will have to run back and forth between computers until you get all dependencies satisfied and can install the application that you want.
yeah, maybe it's not XP, being I see cp twice.
Anyway, something helpful. This is my topic that I posted on here a while back.
Hope it helps, and I'm sorry if I veered you off:
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but it would sound very stupid if you only could use the internet, so go ahead, download and see how it works. I don't think it's that difficult.
