On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 12:23:39PM -0700, Andrew Hunter wrote: > Hi. First, my great appreciation to those that have answered my > questions thus far. The transition to Linux has been greatly eased by > it.
Community support blows ``phone drone support'' out of the water. Welcome to the world of Open Source Software. > Second,third, and fourth, I have 3 questions: > > 1) I note on the RPM listing at > http://uug.byu.edu/apt/redhat/8.0/en/i386/RPMS.freshrpms/ that the file > mpeg2dec-0.3.1-fr1.i386.rpm is available. Will this allow me to play > DVD's in Linux? If not, what does it do, and what would allow me to > play DVD's? I recommend you check out MPlayer for *all* of your media needs: http://www.mplayerhq.hu > 2) I have attempted to install the Shockwave plugin for Mozilla. I > followed the directions on the Shockwave site. When I got to step 4, > which reads: > > Navigate to this directory and from the command line type > ./flashplayer-installer to run the installer (Note: this can only be > run from the command line). The installer will instruct you to shut > down your browser(s). > > I received the message: > > bash: ./flashplayer-installer: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission > denied That could happen for a few different reasons. Sometimes there is a DOS carriage return after the ``#!/bin/sh'' on the first line (use dos2unix utitilty to fix that). Other times the permissions on the filesystem are not set right for either the script or the interpreter. > 3) I note on the UUG RPM pages that there are RPMs and SRPMs. What is > the difference? One contains the binaries and the other contains the source. Mike -- ---------------------------------------- | ------------------------ Michael Halcrow | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet Security Research Lab | Dept. of Comp. Science | Brigham Young University Friends don't let friends do Windows. | ---------------------------------------- | ------------------------ GnuPG Keyprint: 05B5 08A8 713A 64C1 D35D 2371 2D3C FDDA 3EB6 601D
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