I'm still new to the whole linux thing so cut me a bit of slack.
I;m trying to get mp3's to work and i been searching for like 3 hours now. everytime i to install it it tells me to install glbic then when i goto install that it gives me a bunch or other stuff i need to install. what am i doing wrong? i;m running suse 10.

sounds like you're trying to install software from source, so the first point of call is to, for the time being, avoid this if you have to. there will be rpm's for whatever app you're actually trying to install, which will making installing software a lot lot lot easier. if you do want to install from source, this is where it get's a little confusing. when your ./configure script says something is not installed, it doesn't necessarily mean exactyl that. it normally means that the code headers that will be required to compile a program with knowledge of other libraries is missing. if you install gblibc-devel from your distro cd's then you're configure script will probably be just fine.

makes sense. so what is a good mp3 player

Sounds to me more like he's hitting dependencies trying to install from RPM. You don't usually see glibc as a dependency trying to install from source.

so what do i need to do then?

the main file that seams to be missing with any of these installs with rpms is
Libc.so.6(Glibc_2.4)but i tried installign that and get another error.