Mike Leone on Wed, 23 Oct 2002 00:38:21 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] No Movie Player in RedHat 8


jeff (jeffv@op.net) wrote this on 10 22, 02 at 22:49: 
> 
> >Looks like they have RH 7.2 and 7.3 packages, which may well behave
> >with RH 8. (Even if they don't, it's not that complicated to build
> >provided you can find the libraries it needs for support as RPMs.)
> 
> speaking of which, I'm having an interesting time with Evolution (by 
> `interesting' I mean `pulling my hair out').
> 
> I've installed a number of distros and RH8 was the only one where it seemed 
> to work upon installation (under KDE, mind you).  Every other time I tried 
> there were horrible problems with libs (which I attempted to locate and 
> load with further errors and dependencies).  This includes RH7.2, Mandrake 
> 8.2 and a few others.

Ah, RPM hell. How ell I (unfortunately) remember it. :-(

Thank you, Debian. :-)

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