Linux things

[sAsLEX]

OK need some software to work in linux,

a movie/sound/cd player to playmedia files etc

that is all does anyone know of an easy one to DL off the net?? or has a hard copy?

[Milky]

Ummm I had a winamp lookalike/copy for linux a while back. Of course that was then, and in my old age I have forgotten what it was called, but have a hunt around on the net and you should get something good.

[sAsLEX]

Ummm I had a winamp lookalike/copy for linux a while back. Of course that was then, and in my old age I have forgotten what it was called, but have a hunt around on the net and you should get something good.

found a bit but finding a complete package was difficult, often the codecs would be threr and then this here

[dhunt]

OK need some software to work in linux,

a movie/sound/cd player to playmedia files etc

that is all does anyone know of an easy one to DL off the net?? or has a hard copy?

mplayer or xine are the main ones arround, should be rpms on your cds or have a look at rpmfind.net

[dhunt]

found a bit but finding a complete package was difficult, often the codecs would be threr and then this here

One of the reasons I moved to gentoo, tell it I want to install x package and goes and install y and z package that x needs as well

Now doesn't redhat have a package manager these days that will get all the dependances?? I'm pretty sure you can get one. SuSE and mandrake come with them but I'm sure redhat one has one now.

[MrMelon]

xmms for mp3's, make sure you install the xmms-skins package too! It's pretty much a winamp 2.x clone.
I generally use mplayer for everything else. It can handle wmv's and rm's too.

What distro are you running?

[sAsLEX]

got Red Hat Linux (version 8 I think) 2.4.18-14 , installed last year by a software engineer on my comp, hence me not knowing too much about it!

edit: dont have any cds!! had to get net working so i could download this stuff

which it is by the way dhunt, those changes you said did stay after a reboot and now the PPPoE thing works fine, and nice and fast now that i have set up the DNS thingys in RPpppoe

[MrMelon]

Ok, if you're running redhat you'll probably want to stay well the fuck away from the nightmare that rpm's will create for you and install apt for redhat.

It will make your linux experience a billion times nicer. If you want to install something, just type apt-get install blah and it'll install blah and any of the other packages that blah needs without you needing to worry about anything.

[sAsLEX]

cheers will give that a go!!!

[sAsLEX]

Ok, if you're running redhat you'll probably want to stay well the fuck away from the nightmare that rpm's will create for you and install apt for redhat.

It will make your linux experience a billion times nicer. If you want to install something, just type apt-get install blah and it'll install blah and any of the other packages that blah needs without you needing to worry about anything.

ok apt thingo worked nice and easy lilke.....


except now the ppoe connection doesn't want to stay active/working for longer than a couple of minutes

so managed to get the apt thing installed and working, but had to do it in three blocks as the net connection kept falling over

prob seems to be with the DNS settings. When creating the connection with roaring penguin it asks to allow it to find out the DNS settings from the server or enter them yourself. I choose enter youself, and entered the ones my ISP provided me with.

Prob seems to be something for some reason changes them for some unkown reason, looking in the newtwork configuration thingy it goes from the 210.45.... and 210.45.... wipes these and goes to 192.2...... dunno where it doing from as had a look at the ppoe config file and these still have the 210 addresses in them???

HELP please

[sAsLEX]

bump......................

[dhunt]

bump......................

Hmm not really sure. But you could manually edit /etc/resolv.conf and add lines like
nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

and telll rp-pppoe to do nothing maybe. Have you got any ideas is it the pppoe stuff that changing it or do you think it is something else??

[dhunt]

Hmm not really sure. But you could manually edit /etc/resolv.conf and add lines like
nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

and telll rp-pppoe to do nothing maybe. Have you got any ideas is it the pppoe stuff that changing it or do you think it is something else??

Just a thought, you aren't running a dhcp client that gets an ip address off a server?? If so the dhcp client maybe be changeing /etc/resolv.conf for you.

[sAsLEX]

Just a thought, you aren't running a dhcp client that gets an ip address off a server?? If so the dhcp client maybe be changeing /etc/resolv.conf for you.

hmm that man deserves a VB!! that was the prob, well something to do with DHCP unticked a DHCP box and whammo it goes.

Let the apt/synaptic do its thing and upgraded everything while I was at it

Cheeers

[dhunt]

hmm that man deserves a VB!! that was the prob, well something to do with DHCP unticked a DHCP box and whammo it goes.

Let the apt/synaptic do its thing and upgraded everything while I was at it

Cheeers

Cool, glad it worked.