Re: Media player - RH 8 newbie question, please forgive

2002-11-03 Thread fluke
For the FreshRPMS Valhalla Synaptic, I have reliably always gotten Synaptic to run. But with the current FreshRPMS Psyche Synaptic, half the time it seems to want the "update" seeded before Synaptic even starts or sometimes Synaptic will *immediately* close out with an error message that it can'

Re: Media player - RH 8 newbie question, please forgive

2002-11-02 Thread Michael Willems
Gordon, Thanks a lot - that actually worked. Not sure how, but it owrked. Thanks! Michael On 2 Nov 2002, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On Sat, 2002-11-02 at 12:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In a web browser go to http://www.freshrpms.net/ > > Download apt > > Download synaptic > > As root run: r

Re: Media player - RH 8 newbie question, please forgive

2002-11-02 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Sat, 2002-11-02 at 12:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a web browser go to http://www.freshrpms.net/ > Download apt > Download synaptic > As root run: rpm -Uvh apt* synaptic* I like short instructions, too :) You can do that all in one step if you like. As root: rpm -ivh \ http://ftp.fresh

Re: Media player - RH 8 newbie question, please forgive

2002-11-02 Thread fluke
In a web browser go to http://www.freshrpms.net/ Download apt Download synaptic As root run: rpm -Uvh apt* synaptic* As root run: apt-get update As root run: synaptic Scroll through the list of package and select xine Click the Install button Click the Proceed! button On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, Micha

Media player - RH 8 newbie question, please forgive

2002-11-02 Thread Michael Willems
OK, please forgive the dumb question... I have gottyen MP3s to play properly, even by clicking on them, finally. But I cannot play MPGs yet. Tried to install the Xine rpms but got a lot of failed dependencies. Not sure how to proceed. I use KDE. Any chance anyone can help me along? (Also, no sc