I have suse 9.2 professional and i installed wine and winamp alpha...neither of them works...i don't know why, i am quite a noob in linux, but wine says something about indoe not found, and winamp simply won't start...can you help me, espacially about wine?.10x in advance.

Use xmms...its a winamp clone and has many plugins.....no wine no windows crap.

yes i was going to also sujest XMMS, or you might even check into noatun. i have had better luck with noatun working and running while running other apps that use sound and not having conflicts in the sound device that XMMS is prone to give.

BMP is a more up-to-date XMMS clone since it uses GTK2 rather than GTK1, looks nicer.

The reason behind the sound conflics would probably be that XMMS is trying to use ALSA for output where Noatun would be using Arts. Set XMMS to use Arts and you'll lose the problem

I like you Linux people...yes, it is true that i have many alternatives, and windows is crap, but that ain't answering my question.Wine I REALLY need, and winamp is optional, so I'll see if I have better luck with other programs...

A, and btw, I have been using windows for many years and I can tell 100 windows programs have less bugs than one linux program...the windows crap, that ironwalker was talking about, at least install and runs without having 2 download the rest of the internet...linux sucks when it comes to this kind of things.

I downloaded BMp as cs-cam said, but now i have another problem:: pango...i downloaded it too, but when I #./configure it says that i don't have glib2.0 installed, but I DO.how can i correct the error, or at least bypass the glib test??(--disable-glib-test)does not work..plz.

checking for pkg-config... (cached) /usr/local/bin/pkg-config
checking for GLIB - version >= 2.4.0... no
*** Could not run GLIB test program, checking why...
*** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for the
*** exact error that occured. This usually means GLIB is incorrectly installed.
configure: error:
*** Glib 2.4.0 or better is required. The latest version of
*** Glib is always available from ftp://ftp.gtk.org/.

what distro are you using? are you trying to install from source or some preconfigured package like a .rpm or .deb?

if you are running a RPM distro (fedora, mandrake, suse) then i sujest using either YUM, or YaST/YOU(for suse only) and configuring the repository to help deal with the dependancy hell you are experiancing.

to find YUM do a google search yum linux, or linux yum both should find it. you are looking for yellowdowg update manager or something along that line.

if you are using a debian based distro (knoppix, ubunto, debian) then you have a few options again, i am only comfortable with apt-get. apt-get is installed when you install a debian based distro (these are the ones using .deb) and you just need to find the respositories for what you want to download and install.

in either case once you have YUM or apt-get running you can do the following to make life easier on your self:

apt-get install application
wait
wait
(Y/n) Y
wait
wait
done.

nothing else to it, and YUM is just as simple. yum install application, do the exact same thing you did for apt-get and poof application is ready to run.

i know before i learned about YUM when i was using RH9 i was getting very frustrated much as you are now. things just did not seem to ever want to work without more work then it was worth. dependancies were always screwy, etc... YUM made life much simpler.

since i have moved to Debian apt-get is just as easy and a bit more powerful IMHO, right or wrong does not matter perception does, as it will do cleaner searches and will only deal with cache when you tell it too. that is the one draw back of YUM. yum -c is supposed to ONLY search from your cache, but for what ever reason it still pulls new headers from the internet thus taking longer to do a search then apt-cache search does.

either way, try em, you might just like em.

Lleb_KCir has some good advice, don't install things yourself when there are package managers to do things for you. A halfway decent package manager makes installing things 100 times easier than InstallShield ever did.

And in regards to the error you're getting while compiling, you can't bypass the glib test. Pango is a part of GTK, it handles all the text formatting and some other smaller stuff. To install it, you're going to need to have GTK installed which requires Glib as that is the base library for a ton of applications. If you used a package manager you wouldn't need to worry about dependencies like this, it'd handle all that for you

Sry i didn't mention, I was(and still am) using Suse 9.2 professional, and i tried in many ways, including installing it from the distribution dvd...no...it says that under suse wine should autoconfigure but it doesn't damn it...in knoppix it worked....i'll try to download wine the last version and see if it works(all dependencies are solved, and i installed the .rpm version wit yast)...wish me luck, that's the best i need right now..

Btw, if I have Yast, do I need yum(or, better said, does yum work under suse??)...10x.

YUM is the RedHat/Fedora Package Manager.
There's no yum for SuSe, but there's apt for SuSe.
Apt for SuSe is availible easily. Simply search for "apt suse".

HTH

Max

Yes, I also knew about yum, but I wasn't sure...so if I have yast and YOU do I need apt...is it better??I mean, I have YasT installed with the system, but it just doesn't seem to do the job(or I don't know how to use it??)

AFAIK there are apt mirrors for SuSe which are more up-to-date than the default ones from SuSe.

That's what I don't like with SuSe, there are only updates if it's security relevant, but no newer versions,

Max