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partyk1d24 06-16-2005 07:30 PM
What is the best linux media player
 
With my sudden withdrawl from windows now complete I could use some help finding a new media player, the one that came with redHat will not play mp3s. Any suggestions?

sundancekid 06-16-2005 07:34 PM
I use xmms on X and mpg123 on console, i didn't bother looking for other players, these two are great.

partyk1d24 06-16-2005 07:37 PM
I have xxms but it doesn't work for me for some reason it won't play mp3s I'll try to post the error

sundancekid 06-16-2005 07:45 PM
download the xmms-mp3 for your distro and it should work.

partyk1d24 06-16-2005 08:16 PM
Ok tried that and got this error


Code:
[root@localhost root]# rpm -i xmms-1.2.10-11.1.0.rh9.rf.i386.rpm
warning: xmms-1.2.10-11.1.0.rh9.rf.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 6b8d79e6
error: Failed dependencies:
        /usr/share/desktop-menu-patches/redhat-audio-player.desktop is needed by xmms-1.2.10-11.1.0.rh9.rf

sundancekid 06-16-2005 08:28 PM
uninstall all xmms packages and reinstall those provided on http://dag.wieers.com/packages/xmms/ or you can force the rpm to install because the file
Code:
/usr/share/desktop-menu-patches/redhat-audio-player.desktop
isnt important (only a shortcut)

drewblay 06-16-2005 08:30 PM
XMMS is a great program I love it for playing music, it plays mp3's and ogg files, I know it can do a lot more than just those two file types but that is what I use it for.

Quote:
error: Failed dependencies:
/usr/share/desktop-menu-patches/redhat-audio-player.desktop is needed by xmms-1.2.10-11.1.0.rh9.rf
You need to install the missing dependency, which appears to be redhat-audio-player. Try to find it on a web site, I use slackware so I don't know any place to find RPM files or Redhat dependencies.

partyk1d24 06-16-2005 08:38 PM
Is there an easy way to uninstall it?

I tried rpm -e xmms and it didn't work Should I do this from the root login?

sundancekid 06-16-2005 08:45 PM
do "rpm -qa | grep xmms" as root and uninstall all xmms packages

partyk1d24 06-16-2005 09:02 PM
Ok tried that still no luck says it is missing dependancies when I try to install and the old version still works :(

When I try to use it it gives me some kind of dialogbox
I have a screenshot in my webshots account under other


Here

sundancekid 06-17-2005 06:35 AM
What is your xmms version??? did you install the xmms-mp3 as root??

sundancekid 06-17-2005 06:45 AM
that is du to mp3 patent, Red Hat and (Fedora??) doesn't come with mp3 support.

hardcorelinux 06-17-2005 08:20 AM
rpm -e --nodeps <packagename> # erase rpm's without check dependencies

rpm ivh packagename.rpm --nodeps # install it without dependencie check


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