On Monday, January 15, 2007 J Sloan wrote: >Greg Wallace wrote:
>> What an ordeal, just to be able to play a video (and then you're still >> having problems). So it seems xine and Kaffiene sort of work together and I >> need updates to both, is that right? I haven't installed many packages >> outside of what is provided from SuSE (maybe 2 or 3). Mostly software that >> comes with its own installation script. I've also never gotten anything off >> of packman. I just took a look out there and found gxine, xine-lib, >> xine-skins, and xine-ui packages. Looks like there's only one kaffeine >> package to worry about. So if I just install each of those packages should >> that do the trick? >You're making things way too complicated, futzing around with individual >downloads from here and there. Life will be a lot simpler when you just let >the computer do the work. Use whatever package management system you want - >yast, smart, apt, yum or whatever. Add the packman repos, and then tell the >system to install a media player of your choice. It could be kaffeine, >mplayer, xine or whatever you prefer. The package management system will >then >automagically pull in and install all the dependencies. If you want to play >dvds, also install the dvdcss libs, last I heard they were available on the >vlc site. >Joe I've never added a third party repo before, but I assume all I need is the url. So, I went to the faq on the packman site to try to get that url. I went to the Help tab and clicked on the "Packman FAQ" link and it was written a foreign language (German?). Could you tell me what URL I need to add to YAST to get access to these packages? Thanks, Greg Wallace -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
