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From: Charlie Gibbs on 28 Jun 2010 13:17 In article <8739w7u8wr.fsf(a)thumper.dhh.gt.org>, jhasler(a)newsguy.com (John Hasler) writes: > Charlie Gibbs writes: > >> apt-get has never heard of xmms. > > "apt-cache search xmms" gets 106 hits on Debian/Sid. > >> I tried building xmms from the same tarball I used on my original >> Slackware installation... > > Why didn't you download the upstream source? That would not have been > configured for Slackware. This was a source tarball, not tailored to any particular distro; it was the configure script that failed. >> In desperation, I started copying installed modules across from my >> Slackware box directly into /usr/bin on the Ubuntu box. > > That was remarkably stupid. I know, and I fully expected the system to break. But it was a fresh install and I had nothing to lose. >> Has anyone ever gotten xmms to run under Ubuntu? > > Xmms2 works fine on Debian. I expect it works fine on Ubuntu as well. > It's probably part of the default install. Next time (whenever that is) I'll try for xmms2. Thanks. -- /~\ cgibbs(a)kltpzyxm.invalid (Charlie Gibbs) \ / I'm really at ac.dekanfrus if you read it the right way. X Top-posted messages will probably be ignored. See RFC1855. / \ HTML will DEFINITELY be ignored. Join the ASCII ribbon campaign!
From: Darren Salt on 28 Jun 2010 13:52 I demand that Charlie Gibbs may or may not have written... > In article <8739w7u8wr.fsf(a)thumper.dhh.gt.org>, jhasler(a)newsguy.com > (John Hasler) writes: >> Charlie Gibbs writes: [snip] >>> I tried building xmms from the same tarball I used on my original >>> Slackware installation... >> Why didn't you download the upstream source? That would not have been >> configured for Slackware. > This was a source tarball, not tailored to any particular distro; > it was the configure script that failed. Installing relevant -dev packages may have helped with this. >>> In desperation, I started copying installed modules across from my >>> Slackware box directly into /usr/bin on the Ubuntu box. >> That was remarkably stupid. > I know, and I fully expected the system to break. But it was a > fresh install and I had nothing to lose. Fair enough :-) But you could have used /usr/local/bin etc. [snip] -- | Darren Salt | linux at youmustbejoking | nr. Ashington, | Toon | using Debian GNU/Linux | or ds ,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | back! | Let's keep the pound sterling RAM disk is *not* an installation procedure!
From: Matt Giwer on 1 Jul 2010 06:00
On 06/27/2010 11:59 PM, Charlie Gibbs wrote: .... > Has anyone ever gotten xmms to run under Ubuntu? I don't know from Ubuntu having used redhat for some ten years now. Over those years I have tried xmms a couple times and it always caused problems of some sort. There are other apps with the same functionality and I have not had problems with any of them. I'd move on to something else instead of trying to figure out the problem. -- If you could reason with Zionists there would be no Zionists. -- The Iron Webmaster, 4272 http://www.giwersworld.org/palestine/answers.phtml a9 Thu Jul 1 05:56:49 EDT 2010 |