On 0, Peter Christensen <pchris@snip.net> wrote: > I know this must be the simplest thing to do, but it's just not working for > me! I recently installed Woody, got the sound working, and now tried to > install a basic CD player. Since I'm using KDE I figured that for > simplicity's sake I should install KCD. How hard could this be for a newbie? > > So I did an apt-get install kcd (from my Debian CD set). Along with kcd it > pulled in libcdaudio. It seemed to work OK because when I did a "find -name" > I got: > > ./usr/share/doc/kcd > ./usr/share/lintian/overrides/kcd > ./usr/share/apps/kcd > ./usr/doc/kcd > > (But "find -name libcdaudio" displays nothing. Perhaps this is where things > went wrong?) Ok, I have just done the same on my system. Now I do this: # dpkg -L kcd /. /usr /usr/lib /usr/lib/libkcd.so.1.0.0 /usr/lib/libkcd.la /usr/share /usr/share/apps /usr/share/apps/kicker /usr/share/apps/kicker/applets /usr/share/apps/kicker/applets/kcd.desktop /usr/share/apps/kcd /usr/share/apps/kcd/pics /usr/share/apps/kcd/pics/play.gif /usr/share/apps/kcd/pics/next.gif /usr/share/apps/kcd/pics/prev.gif /usr/share/apps/kcd/pics/stop.gif /usr/share/apps/kcd/pics/eject.gif /usr/share/lintian /usr/share/lintian/overrides /usr/share/lintian/overrides/kcd /usr/share/doc /usr/share/doc/kcd /usr/share/doc/kcd/AUTHORS /usr/share/doc/kcd/README /usr/share/doc/kcd/TODO /usr/share/doc/kcd/copyright /usr/share/doc/kcd/changelog.gz /usr/share/doc/kcd/changelog.Debian.gz /usr/lib/libkcd.so.1 /usr/lib/libkcd.so This seems to indicate that there is not an executable in the kcd package, but that it is a shared library loaded by KDE. # dpkg -L libcdaudio0 /. /usr /usr/lib /usr/lib/libcdaudio.so.1.0.0 /usr/share /usr/share/doc /usr/share/doc/libcdaudio0 /usr/share/doc/libcdaudio0/NEWS.gz /usr/share/doc/libcdaudio0/changelog.gz /usr/share/doc/libcdaudio0/copyright /usr/share/doc/libcdaudio0/AUTHORS.gz /usr/share/doc/libcdaudio0/README.gz /usr/share/doc/libcdaudio0/changelog.Debian.gz /usr/lib/libcdaudio.so.1 Your find was not general enough; you needed to "find -name 'libcdaudio*'". > There's a README in doc/kcd that says > > Installation: > - kcd requires libcdaudio. Get it from http://cdcd.undergrid.net/libcdaudio > (or any other source) and install it > - build kcd as described in the INSTALL file apt-get should do all the installation for you, or tell you what else you need to do. > I can't find the INSTALL file. I tried adding the applet "CD player" (it's > an option when I click on "configure panel") to the KDE panel, but nothing > happens. I can't help you here; when I right click on my panel and select Add->Applet->CD Player my panel crashes. Maybe its because I don't have sound configured on this box? > I've been looking through how-tos, faqs, and manuals, but not getting very > far. Shouldn't I be able to find an executable somewhere so that I can try > running the app from the command line? Would the executable end up in the > /var directory? (This is my understanding from the Debian User's Guide.) No. Executables should end up in a directory called 'bin', be it /bin, /usr/bin etc. > By the way, I'd be interested if anyone has a favorite CD player. I picked > kcd because I thought it would be integrated with KDE, but would be > interested in any other recommendations. Personally I just use the 'play' button the CD drive, but I can see how you would find that boring. To find CD players: apt-cache search CD player there are lots. In particular there is a standalone CD player for KDE (as opposed to the applet version) called kscd. As for what I like, I seem to remember xplaycd being OK for everything I wanted it to do; but then that wasn't much. I think xmms plays cds with a funky, winamp-clone interface (as well as playing other things). xplaycd is in package mctools-lite and xmms is in package xmms. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy, and taste good with ketchup. Get my GPG public key: https://pinky.its.adelaide.edu.au/~tkcook/tom.cook-at-adelaide.edu.au
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