I know that other people are having problems installing xmms so I thought I would post how I got it working on my stable slink system.
I was forced to figure it out when I tried installing the xmms package from xmms.org and not only didn't it work, but it uninstalled my x11amp. Since I don't have the x11amp package anymore and it is not available at Debian's site, I was forced to with xmms. I learned that if you aren't installing using apt-get, then you should try the --no-act switch of dpkg before trying it! I found that with some work you can install xmms on a stable system. What I did might affect some packages but I don't think so. I'm not sure it will work for everyone and it might cause damage but here's what I did: 1. Get the xmms .deb package from xmms.org. 2. Get the libgtk1.2 and libglib1.2 packages from ftp://ftp.netgod.net/x. 3. Get the libaudiofile0 and libmikmod1 packages from unstable. 3. Install the libaudiofile0 and libmikmod1 packages with dpkg: dpkg -i --ignore-depends=libc6 <package file name> 4. Install libglib1.2 and then libgtk1.2 with dkpg. 5. Install xmms with dpkg -i --ignore-depends=libgtk1.2. Obviously, I'm ignoring some of the dependencies (libc6 2.1+, which seems to be a potato thing more than a true requirement) but it seems to work and it doesn't seem to break anything else as far as I can tell. Perhaps someone more knowledgable can comment on this? I ignored libgtk1.2 when installing xmms since it only wants a slightly newer version of libgtk1.2 than you can get from ftp.netgod.net. It looked like they would both work well, so I figured what the hell. I didn't have libaudiofile0 or libmikmod1 installed on my system before this, so I figured it was safe to force them in. I'm also not using a lot of gtk-based apps (except Gimp--which still works), so I wasn't worried about forcing libgtk1.2 and libglib1.2. I'm writing up these directions from memory so I might have forgotten something. I also might have had other required libraries on my system, but they should all be from stable. I also had to play with getting libgtk1.2-dev and libglib1.2-dev installed to get the ALSA xmms plugin to compile. You have to remove quite a few other *-dev packages to get these updated packages installed. It's a lot of work but it works! Kevin
