XMMS, MP3s, and RPMs

[Ronno]

I installed Fedora Core 1 and was able to easily enable MP3 support in XMMS by downloading the latest RPM from xmms.org. However, after running up2date, XMMS was back to not supporting MP3s.

I found another thread on this forum and followed the command line instructions for removing the XMMS package. However, it did not work. XMMS is no longer installed (or at least not working) but when I try to install the latest XMMS RPM I get an error saying that a newer version is already installed.

How do I properly uninstall XMMS so that fedora does not still think it is installed? Please be aware I am a long time Windows user and have been using LindowsOS for a while so I am very much a newbie.

Thanks

[Jman]

At the command line, change to root.

su -

and then the root password. Run

yum remove xmms

Then reinstall it and xmms-mp3:

yum install xmms xmms-mp3

This get you back to the Fedora built version of xmms.

Yum is a software updater that works with rpm packages.

If you copy this yum.conf to /etc/yum.conf (as root), you can uncomment some more software repositories outside the default Fedora, like xmms-mp3 from freshrpms. Open /etc/yum.conf with a text editor and remove the # in front of the entries you want to use, like freshrpms for xmms-mp3.

Now you should be ready to rock.

[glimmung]

Alternatively I would drop up2date and use apt-get, which I found to be phenominal.

try the instructions here Voidmain's apt-get tip

If I recall synaptic has an option to perform a distribution repair. It wil search out and try to fix packages that are broken. either removing them or updating the packages they rely on.

[Ronno]

It worked! The first time I ran it yum seemd to hang while erasing XMMS (although the test completed successfully).

When I tried a little later it worked smoothly. However, I got the error:

"Cannot find a package matching xmms-mp3"

So I still don't have MP3 support. :-(

[Ug]

You'll want to go here, and add the Livna repository to your Yum conf. By following the instructions. Then try again.

[Ronno]

Thanks for all your help guys. I was a bit leary of just copying the yum.conf file and using it so I googled for more information and found this great introduction to yum article.

I have since added freshrpms.net as a repository and now I have MP3 support! Not to mention the ability to easily install a tonne of other programs.

[Ug]

Glad thats sorted.