Re: DVD & RH9

[Alan Bort <333101 personal net py>]

what is done is done. And I'm not in the mood for a make clean and then
re-configureing everything... I'm happy with things the way they are...
anyway... the problem is that If I have to download all rpms again
because RH does not support them properly... well I think I'll stick to
Mandrake instead... Never had ANY problems at all with Mandrake 9.1
except for Ximian, of course.

Ok... thanks a lot. I'll try freshrpm...

El vie, 27-06-2003 a las 17:30, Cliff Wells escribió:
> On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 14:05, Alan Bort wrote:
> > We understood that you like that site. However it's not the ONLY source
> > for RPMs, and RPMs are not the only way to install software. I, for
> > instance, had to install XMMS from source for it to read MP3. 
> 
> Once again, had you gone to freshrpms.net, you would have discovered 
> 
> http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/redhat/9/xmms-mp3/xmms-mp3-1.2.7-21.p.fr1.i386.rpm
> 
> which would have solved your problem.  Also, had they not had it (they
> don't have everything), the site maintainer is quite open to adding
> packages (he builds them himself) if they seem like things people would
> want.  Also on that site you'll find links to other sites that carry apt
> repositories that focus on different types of applications.
> 
> > For some
> > strange reason RH took out support for MP3 on their distro... and ALL I
> > have are MP3... and I'm not in the mood of ripping ALLLLLLL over again
> > but in OGG. Is there a tool to do that automatically??? (migrate from
> > MP3 to OGG).
> 
> Hm, haven't done this myself (I have an Intel Pocket Concert that
> doesn't do ogg), but you could check out some of the tools on this page:
> http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=convert%20ogg%20mp3
> 
> > 
> > I Don¿t have xine installed either... I think XD2 had something to do
> > with that...
> 
> I've got XD2 on RH9 and I get my xine from <wink>
> 
> > Can I tell RPM that I installed CERTAIN package from source so it allows
> > me to install RPMs that need tha package (don't want to do --nodep)???
> > how?
> 
> That's the problem with bypassing the RPM system.  IMHO, there *should*
> be a way to directly edit the RPM database, but AFAIK there isn't. 
> Probably your best bet is to learn to build rpms and roll your own for
> whatever package you want to install.
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