Xmms installation

[Christopher Twigg]

Isn't it possible to make an SRPM out of any tarball that uses
automake/autoconf?  I'm a little fuzzy on that I admit, but...

Christopher Twigg
cdtwigg at u.washington.edu

On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, D. Cheah wrote:

> Another alternative, is learning to make your own RPMs. Its not that hard
> once you get the hang of writing the spec files. I learnt it early on when
> I found the book 'Maximum RPM' on sale. Plus these days there are more
> tools to help automate the process along, just take a look on freshmeat. 
> 
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> Daniel.
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> On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Christopher Twigg wrote:
> 
> > My major complaint about tarballs (not that I don't use them myself all
> > the time) is that when you want to experiment with something, once you've
> > installed it from tarball it's darned near impossible to uninstall
> > it.  A lot of people who write programs like to put stuff in places like
> > /usr/local/libexec and bizarre-ass places like that, whereas with an
> > RPM you can always tell what was put where.  What Linux needs IMO is
> > a BSD-style ports tree, since you can always uninstall from that (if the
> > port is designed right) and it's pretty good about checking dependencies.
> > 
> > Christopher Twigg
> > cdtwigg at u.washington.edu
> > 
> > On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, R. David Whitlock wrote:
> > 
> > > thats a good point:  when rpm is flubbed or otherwise muffed, rpm -e the
> > > package and go out and find the tar.gz.  It's really not that scary to
> > > compile your own from source.  A well written ./configure will do alot of
> > > what rpm does, verify dependencies, look for locations, that sort of
> > > thing.  MAKEFILE's are fun! =-)  
> > > 
> > > I suspect xmms has a very well written set of files, since it's the mp3
> > > player of choice for most linux nuts, with whom mp3's are notoriously
> > > popular (g).  
> > > 
> > > -David
> > > 
> > > 	      "All of a sudden, I found myself in love with the world
> > >    		          So there was only one thing that I could do
> > >  		        Was ding a ding-dang my dang a long ling-long..."
> > >  		         	     -Ministry, Jesus Built My Hotrod
> > > 
> > > On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Steve Juranich wrote:
> > > 
> > > > rpm -qi just tells you which packages the package installs.  It doesn't tell
> > > > you if the package is there or not.  For that, either run find, locate, or
> > > > (if you're stuck on RPM), rpm -V
> > > > 
> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > Stephen W. Juranich								sjuranic at ee.washington.edu
> > > > Electrical Engineering  	 	   http://students.washington.edu/sjuranic
> > > > University of Washington				http://truk.ee.washington.edu/ssli
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, 'The Pho Man' Doug McLean wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > Well, I did the rpm -qi and the library is definitely there.  The last
> > > > > time I installed this I didn't have a problem either.  Why this time?
> > > > > 
> > > > > --Doug "The Pho Man" McLean
> > > > > 
> > > > > "People who want to share their religious views with you almost never
> > > > > want you to share yours with them."                 - Dave Barry
> > > > > 
> > > > > On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Slowping wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > > You probably don't have that library installed, or don't have it included
> > > > > > in the library search path.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > If you use RedHat RPMs and stuff, check to make sure you have it.
> > > > > > $ rpm -qi libxml
> > > > > > and see if it comes up. If not, you need to download the RPM and insteall
> > > > > > it.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > If you are installing libxml from source, compile and `make install' it.
> > > > > > Make sure the target library path is in /etc/ld.so.conf
> > > > > > Make sure you run /sbin/ldconfig as root after the library's been
> > > > > > installed.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > > error: failed dependencies:
> > > > > > >         libxml.so.1 is needed by xmms-1.2.2-1
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > Did I miss something?  I did install both the source file and the
> > > > > > > binary.  The source file installed fine, like always, but the binary gives
> > > > > > > me this error.  What gives?
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > --Doug "The Pho Man" McLean
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > "People who want to share their religious views with you almost never
> > > > > > > want you to share yours with them."                 - Dave Barry
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