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Re: [PLUG] No Movie Player in RedHat 8
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Obviously I run APT in Debian, but I haven't tried it in redhat. All my
music is in OGG though.
-- noah silva
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, W. Chris Shank wrote:
> I have FINALLY made the leap to apt! There is a great article on osnews
> about tweaking RedHat 8. One of the tweaks is installing apt that works
> with RPMS from FreshRPMs. I must say that I am really impressed with the
> ease that I was able to install the mp3 and mplayer (anda few other)
> packages.
>
> Very cool.
>
>
>
>
> > 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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