On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 12:23, Andrew Hunter wrote: > Hi. First, my great appreciation to those that have answered my > questions thus far. The transition to Linux has been greatly eased by > it. > > Second,third, and fourth, I have 3 questions: > > 1) I note on the RPM listing at > http://uug.byu.edu/apt/redhat/8.0/en/i386/RPMS.freshrpms/ that the file > mpeg2dec-0.3.1-fr1.i386.rpm is available. Will this allow me to play > DVD's in Linux? If not, what does it do, and what would allow me to > play DVD's?
What I do is install apt (as described on the web page you mentioned). Then I do one or both of the following: apt-get install ogle and/or apt-get install mplayer > > 2) I have attempted to install the Shockwave plugin for Mozilla. I > followed the directions on the Shockwave site. When I got to step 4, > which reads: > > Navigate to this directory and from the command line type > ./flashplayer-installer to run the installer (Note: this can only be > run from the command line). The installer will instruct you to shut > down your browser(s). > > I received the message: > > bash: ./flashplayer-installer: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission > denied > > How does one deal with this? I use the following flash plugin rpm which autoconfigures itself: http://sluglug.ucsc.edu/macromedia/site_ucsc.html > > 3) I note on the UUG RPM pages that there are RPMs and SRPMs. What is > the difference? An SRPM is a source code package with instructions on how to build it and create a binary RPM. They are useful if you want to take a package made for redhat 6.2 and rebuild it to run on redhat 8 (linking against new libraries, etc). Michael > > Many thanks for the help-- > > Andrew > > > > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
