Forget Kopete. I have discovered that GAIM is even better for instant messaging with common protocols (comes standard with Redhat8)
Redhat 8 XMMS does not play MP3's "out of the box" either, you have to apply another rpm. Robert On Sun, 2002-10-06 at 11:01, Robert Fisher wrote: > My youngest son was complaining that his PII-400 with a 4Mb video card > was not cutting the mustard for the games he wanted to play. I was close > to spending more money and building a PC for him but decided to "swap" > PC's. > > I have installed RedHat8 on the Compaq DeskPro (after replacing the > faulty Ram I bought) and this room no longer has Windows. > > There are some frustrations though. > > I had to manually configure the sound card after searching the net for > instructions - nothing too major although I would had expected an ES1869 > card to be detected automatically. > > I have been using the latest version of Evolution for some time (the > latest version fixed the "not emptying trash folder" problem. Now with > Redhat8 I have an earlier version again. To update Evolution I need to > use the "Red Carpet Installer". I had been using this installer very > successfully with Redhat 7.3 but the package does not work with RH8. The > Ximian web site does not yet have a version of Red Carpet for RH8. > > I was using Kopete for instant messaging (after reading a rave from > Jeremy). I too liked it but now when I try to install it on RH8 it wants > some dependencies sorted out. I have installed RH8 with the > Custom,Everything option and I am not sure how to satisfy the > dependencies. > > When these things are sorted out I will be very happy and my next > project will be to find which programme to use to edit my web pages. I > created them in Dreamweaver but now know that the Flash buttons and Java > applets do not work on a default Linux installation so I will simplify > it (hopefully using a Linux program) > > Well there you are. Its off my chest and probably bored anybody who read > this email to the end. > -- > Robert Fisher > http://www.fisherfamily.orcon.net.nz > > (I am going to modify my page without the Flash components) > -- Robert Fisher http://www.fisherfamily.orcon.net.nz
