corel linux
Daniel R . Kilbourne
daniel.kilbourne@voyager.net
Mon, 8 May 2000 14:16:40 -0400
if you want xmms, try to go to http://www.xmms.org
they even have Debian packages - http://www.xmms.org/download.html
On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 01:13:56PM -0400, Mike Rambo wrote:
> Ben Pfaff wrote:
>
> > You want to use apt. First use `dpkg', the basic package
> > manager, to make sure that apt is installed:
> > dpkg -s apt
>
> Yes indeed - it's there
>
> > Otherwise, set
> > up an apt `sources' file. This is /etc/apt/sources.list. You
> > might already have one. Some sensible contents would be the
> > following:
> >
> > deb ftp://debian.egr.msu.edu/debian stable main contrib
> > deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US
> >
>
> This file had some corel related stuff that gave errors with apt-get
> update. We #'d them and added the above.
>
> > and actually install packages along with all their dependencies
> > with
> > apt-get install mozilla
>
> We get an error that an update to xmms is needed that apt-get cannot
> find a source for. xmms appears to be a winamp type package. Anyone
> have any ideas where we can find this package - or can we force an
> install without it. We don't really need winamp unless it breaks
> other things to force an install without it.
>
> Thanks
>
> Mike
>
>
>
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