New Programs

[Robert Lyons]

I am still having software install problems, and now a new problem where I can not play an audio CD. The cd is recognized in the drive, but when I click play it never spins...This is bad :-(

Does anybody know of a Yellow Dog forum that I can get to in addition to the mailing list, or an IRC chat?

Thanks,

Robert
 
On Tuesday, May 04, 2004, at 09:26AM, Clinton MacDonald <clint.macdonald@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

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