Hi Mike: The are many ways to get xmms or any other program into YDL5. Just to cover the essentials I'll cover a little background of what they are:
1. Use the program called yum as superuser. Yum is designed to install programs like xmms by finding them and installing all interelated programs xmms needs (called dependencies) into YDL 5. Doing: #yum install "xmms*" from within any Terminal within YDL 5 would get this done. If you are using e17 look for the icon which looks a bit like a small monitor or tv place your mouse over it and it should say Terminal. You can learn more regarding yum by using the manual or info feature within YDL 5 and ask YDL 5 itself. The same instructions apply for any Red Hat Linux system; although that system may be using KDE or Gnome, instead. You can also login to those and other desktop environments within YDL 5 also, it's a good idea to get familiar with those also in case in the future you come across a system using them -- you won't be stuck. By the way the * is a wildcard symbol which tells yum to include any character which follows s; it comes in handy especially when you are using shells. Bash, the standard shell used in the Terminal, is one among many. Exploring shells can become a separate study topic; again you can study Unix shells another time. The manual or info system can be accessed within superuser (symbolized by #) or user (symbolized by $) mode. In this situation do: #man yum or $info yum 2. You can download and install xmms or any other open source program directly from the people who created it. This is best left for when you've acquired skills and practice with basic programming skills regarding implementing programming procedures to build and install working programs from source. The steps include but are not limited to using the following commands: configure, make, make install, etc. This capability comes in handy if a particular program is not included in the standard libraries which yum knows about. 3. For now, the easiest path is to use YDL 5 programs known to the system as pirut and pup. Getting to pirut within e17: Applications --> Add/Remove Sofware You'll be asked for your password, enter your superuser password. You'll see buttons one of which will be search. Select Search and type in xmms. A listing of all related programs will appear, install them and you are done. You can use this procedure for any program. Getting to pup within e17: Applications --> System Tools --> Software Updater Likewise enter your superuser password. Pup will inform you of any updates which it is aware of. Pup and Pirut work best if you are online within YDL 5. Obvious, but you'd be surprised how many forget to do this. That's it. Good Luck... On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:32:45 -0700 (PDT) "Michael J. Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i Have tried to get xmms but I have no idea how to install it. I am > really new to linux and the only experience I do have is with ubuntu. > Any help would be appreciated. I am running ydl on a PS3 if it > matters. I have found this mailing list invaluable so far. Thanks. > > > > --------------------------------- > Luggage? GPS? Comic books? > Check out fitting gifts for grads at Yahoo! Search. ======== "If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. ... I get most joy in life out of music." "What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck," for the October 26, 1929 issue of The Saturday Evening Post.
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