you can try yum --enablerepo=dag install xmms-mp3 xmms
cheers Alex ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of P. Larry Nelson [[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, 6 June 2009 06:59 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: MP3s on SL4.6 Hi Troy, Thanks, but no joy. Installed the 2 you mentioned, restarted firefox and same sequence of events occurs - Helix fires up but another box pops up right away saying I need RealPlayer. This doesn't need a reboot does it? Then I tried saving the MP3 file and double-clicked on it. This time an app called Noatun pops up, but none of its buttons do a damn thing. - Larry Troy Dawson wrote on 6/5/2009 3:46 PM: > P. Larry Nelson wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've always done linux admin on just servers, so I've never needed >> to know about such things as playing MP3 files on linux. >> >> Well, now I've got a user with a fully patched SL4.6 laptop and >> is trying to get an MP3 file to play. >> >> Go to a web page with an MP3 sample and click on it. >> A dialog box pops up asking whether to save or use the default >> application, which is something called Helix. Choose Helix. >> Helix app box pops up but then another box opens and says one >> needs to get RealPlayer. Fine, except I can only find RealPlayer-11 >> which doesn't install on SL4.6 due to dependencies. >> >> So, my question is (at its simplest) how does one play MP3 files >> on an SL4.6 box? Is there something other than Helix that doesn't >> need RealPlayer? Or, if RealPlayer is indeed needed, where can >> I find a version of RealPlayer that works on SL4.6? >> Googling, so far, hasn't helped - but then it hasn't been an >> exhaustive search. >> >> Thanks! >> - Larry > > > yum install gstreamer-plugins-mp3 xmms-mp3 > > Troy > -- P. Larry Nelson (217-244-9855) | Systems/Network Administrator 461 Loomis Lab | High Energy Physics Group 1110 W. Green St., Urbana, IL | Physics Dept., Univ. of Ill. MailTo:[email protected] | http://www.roadkill.com/lnelson/ ------------------------------------------------------------------- "Information without accountability is just noise." - P.L. Nelson
