New Programs

[Clinton MacDonald]

Mr. Lyons:

Robert Lyons wrote:
> While I am not new to Linux, I am very new to Yellow Dog.
> I run Slackware on my PC's. I am having some very newbie
> problems.

If you can install and run Slackware, then you are not a Linux newbie by 
any means!

I am pretty much a newbie in the Yellow Dog *and* PC Linux sense, but 
here are my opinions (for what they might be worth).

> I really only have two programs that I want to install on
> my powerbook:
> xine (or equiv. for DVD playback)

This one *might* be very hardware dependent, and thus hard to get 
working on your machine (not to mention the need for DVD decoding 
software that is legally -- though not morally -- iffy).

> bibletime (bible study software for the KDE desktop)
> 
> I have tried to compile both of these from source, but I
> am running into all types of dependency problems.

No, that is very, very typical. Yellow Dog Linux 3.0.x is based on Red 
Hat Linux 8 (I think). Therefore, all dependencies will be on libraries 
and thingies that were contemporary with that distribution. Perhaps if 
you can find older versions of your favorite software, they will be more 
compatible.

> This almost makes Gentoo PPC seem easy :-)

I hope not! ;-)

Best wishes,
Clint

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Dr. Clinton C. MacDonald | <mailto:clint DOT macdonald AT sbcglobal DOT net>