Installing XMMS...

Kylesun · 06-29-2004, 04:57 PM

XMMS keeps freezing on me and closing when I try to listen to a song with it, so I wen't to the XMMS web site and downloaded this newest version with those bug fixes.. but this keeps happening to me when I try to make it.

I cd to the directory wqhere I un-packed the file

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cd /home/kyle/xmms/xmms-1.2.10

okay, so then I type

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./configure

and it says

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checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for prefix by checking for xmms... /usr/bin/xmms
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cl... no
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
See `config.log' for more details.

After that, I type

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make

and I get

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make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.

Ummm yea.. can someone tell me how I fix this?

Thanks
-Kyle

Komakino · 06-29-2004, 05:16 PM

You have no C compiler (the clue is in the error message).

If you didn't install the development packages when you installed Mandrake, now would be the time to do so....though I'm curious as to why you have make installed but no C compiler.

liquidtenmilion · 06-29-2004, 07:44 PM

Just open up the package manager and choose to install the ENTIRE development tree and you will be fine.

Kylesun · 06-30-2004, 03:53 AM

I do that, and I get an error, and it lists a bunch of files that were slected, and says they have bad signatures. So I click OK to continue anyways and I get an error that says Problem during installing or somthing, and nothing gets installed...

Can't I set it to download from ftp mirrors instead of my CDs? Can someone give me the FTP mirrors that they use so I can use them too?

Thanks
-Kyle

Mega Man X · 07-01-2004, 03:51 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Kylesun
I do that, and I get an error, and it lists a bunch of files that were slected, and says they have bad signatures. So I click OK to continue anyways and I get an error that says Problem during installing or somthing, and nothing gets installed...

Can't I set it to download from ftp mirrors instead of my CDs? Can someone give me the FTP mirrors that they use so I can use them too?

Thanks
-Kyle

To download and install packages from ftp's, use urpmi. Easy urpmi works great:

http://urpmi.org/easyurpmi/index.php

About XMMS, it's a very weird problem. I never tried Mandrake 10.0, but with 9.2 it worked nicely. Try using another rpm, maybe an older one. Here:

http://rpm.pbone.net/

you will find a lot, and I mean it, a lot of rpm's for Mandrake and many other distributions. See if that helps. I'd also recommend you to stick with rpm's if you are going to use Mandrake. Nearly all packages around has a mdk package, so you will be fine

.

Good luck!

Mankind75 · 07-01-2004, 07:00 AM

Last but not least there is always the Mandrake Club for the rpms. Even though I was a bit reluctant to pay for Linux at first I found it quite useful so far.

zebra90210 · 07-04-2004, 08:27 PM

I've had the same problem.
The XMMS would crash every time I've tried to play a song.
It wouldn't play anything - MP3s, WAVs or anything else.
I uninstalled it.
I've downloaded version 1.2.6 from sourceforge.net and it worked.
I've downloaded the tar.gz file and unpacked it in root.
Then I've found the instructions in the README file.
It was pretty easy but it took a while, specially the part 'make'.

amosf · 07-04-2004, 09:12 PM

If you use KDE on the default mdk 10 distro and xmms that comes with it you are best turning off arts. It cracks up a lot of things, xmms and esp winex and crossover.

Glennzo · 07-05-2004, 07:44 AM

Open a terminal and type 'xmms'. If the program works without crashing then using the menu editor find the entry for XMMS and edit the command line to remove the word 'soundwrapper' from where it says 'soundwrapper xmms'. Save and try XMMS from the Mandrake menu 'multimedia sound xmms'. Should be ok now. This worked for me under Mandrake 10 and has worked many times in the past.

Kylesun · 07-05-2004, 09:11 AM

Thanks Glennzo, It works great now :-D.