Hi in quest of enlightment, I've put aside my biases, installed ubuntu, as recommended for noobies, <shock, horror gasp> sorry <cough>:
After spending the morning fighting the tools: I downloaded skype: dpkg: error processing Desktop/skype_1.2.0.18-1_i386.deb (--install): package architecture (i386) does not match system (amd64) Errors were encountered while processing: Desktop/skype_1.2.0.18-1_i386.deb resolvable? I tried to get xine to play a wmv file. I enabled every repositry and every option. I get (sic): The stream ShazBaz.wmv use an unsupported codec: Video Codec: Windows Media Video 9(WMV3) Start Playing anyway ? Easy with SuSE: install the w32codec-all-20050412-0.pm.0.i586.rpm All is fine. Also, my SuSE amd64 has 32 libs, so it can run 32 apps. Skype don't give any other options. If you go to packman and search for mpg123 he gives mpg321.........rpm. This was my hint to get mpg123. The symantic tools do not give any hint. If anybody can point me in the right direction, much appreciated. James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
