Re: Sound on Sarge
john gennard wrote:
I had tried that, David, and only got the offer of 'xmms',
repeating shows:-
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Leary:/home/john# apt-get install alsa-xmms
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Note, selecting xmms instead of alsa-xmms
This looks like alsa-xmms predepends on xmms, which is hardly surprising.
Xmms has a myriad of these.
If alsa-xmms didn't exist, your packet manager would say so, as in:-
"alsa-xmms, no such package," quite emphatically.
Suggested packages:
unzip
Recommended packages:
libmikmod2 libvorbis0
The following NEW packages will be installed:
xmms
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 40 not upgraded.
Need to get 2013kB of archives.
After unpacking 6255kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://ftp.uk.debian.org testing/main xmms 1.2.10-1 [2013kB]
25% [1 xmms 507879/2013kB 25%]30.3kB/s 49s
29% [1 xmms 601999/2013kB 29%]29.6kB/s 47s
----I aborted at this stage----
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A package search on Debian.org in both Sarge and Testing failed
to show 'alsa-xmms'. Very puzzling to me.
Not gospel, but it looks as though alsa-xmms is an integral part of the
xmms package to the point where it is not recognised as a separate entity.
You may have to install xmms to get it. I can't think of any other
reason as to why your package manager would respond by installing an
apparently unrequested package otherwise.
Thanks for the response. John.
No problem.
Regards,
David.
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