I recently installed Red Hat Linux 8.0 on my system. I've been having some issues installing the RPM file that is distributed on www.xmms.org to enable XMMS mp3 play capabilites. Everytime I try to install the RPM plugin, I get a failed dependencies error:

error: Failed dependencies:
xmms >= 1.2.7 is needed by xmms-mpg123-1.2.7-13

However, with Red Hat 8.0 I have XMMS version 1.2.7. I am using the version of XMMS which comes with Red Hat 8.0.

Any clues as to what is causing this error, or how to fix it?

I appreciate your help.

Mark

xmms can play mp3's by default. you don't need any other plugin.

acid_kewpie,

xmms in red hat 8.0 does not play mp3s by default. you have to install an rpm plugin that enables mp3 support within redhat.

http://www.redhat.com/advice/speaks_80mm.html

I've been having problems installing the plugins.

Mark

oh yes, i remember something about that acutally. well just force the install, as long as do defeinitely get decent results from "rpm -qa | grep xmms". a MUCH better solution would be to install it from source, or a standard rpm from xmms.org

I tried installing xmms from source, but that didn't work out....yet more errors. i think im missing some libraries.

anyhow, to force the install the correct command would be:

rpm --force *whatever package*

right?

Thanks.

no, you'd actually use --nodeps not force.

OK.

Thanks Chris.