Re: X11amp for 2.1?
I have xmms on my 2.1 system, and as far as I can remember I had no
problems at all. I believe I downloaded a .rpm of it from somewhere and
just used alien, then dpkg -i. It works perfect now.
-Aaron Solochek
leko@cmu.edu
On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, John Gay wrote:
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> I know I've seen a few comments about X11amp before, but most of the suggestions
> were to upgrade to 2.2. I tried installing the .deb from unstable, and had to
> upgrade a few other packages before it would work, but this caused many, many
> conflicts in my system, according to dselect. Everything seemed to work fine,
> otherwise. UNTIL, I tried to install Star Office. This insisted on upgrading my
> lib's, all though the README's indicated the Debian 2.1 had the right lib's.
> After this, my entire system was trashed. I had to re-initialise my / and /usr
> partitions and re-install from scratch. I don't want to try that again any time
> soon. Is there any way to install/compile X11amp to run on Debian 2.1 without
> upgrading the system? As it seems that the freeze for 2.2 is still in the
> distant future, I would like to have X11amp, but not at the cost of going to
> unstable. I am still too new to linux to deal with the problems of unstable.
>
> Cheers,
>
> John Gay
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