Hi !
Tosday I tried to install an mp3-player (i loaded x11amp [as rpm],
kjukebox and mp3-studio). Again I ran into tremendous problems like I
always do when I try to install something. I'm using RedHat 5.2, kernel
2.0.36 and KDE 1.1.1 (if more information about my linux is needed, please
tell me).
The x11rpm asks for some files in order of unsolved dependencies. I never
have a clue where to get those files, because only the file names and not
the name of a required package is reported (would be very comfortable if
the producers of rpms would add a source where to get those files).
I think of installing more programs to my system in future and I guess I
will always have the same problem. I don't think it is senseful to bug ppl
on this list everytime I want to install something, so that I'm interested
in a basic explanation on hwo to install software with less or even no
problems. Especially this point is imho the biggest disadvantage of Linux.
How can I figure out, what package includes the requested files ?
Where can I find packages (besides rufus) ?
What do I have to do if the file is probably already on my puter, but has
a different name ? (I had once probs with a libstdc++.so.2.9 that was named
on my puter libstdc++.2.9 !)
Why is it always such a (unnecessary) problem to figure that out ?
The other progs were available as tar.gz files, so I unpacked them and
wanted to go the typical way with ./configure, make, make install. This is
pretty easy. But everytime ./configure aborts telling me that c++ / g++ are
not able to produce executables.
What can I do to make the compiler (is it the compiler ?) to create
executables ?
Is there anything missing ?
