[Derick Centeno]

Hi Mike:

The are many ways to get xmms or any other program into YDL5.  Just to
cover the essentials I'll cover a little background of what they are:

1. Use the program called yum as superuser.  Yum is designed to install
programs like xmms by finding them and installing all interelated
programs xmms needs (called dependencies) into YDL 5. Doing:

#yum install "xmms*" 

from within any Terminal within YDL 5 would get this done.  If you are
using e17 look for the icon which looks a bit like a small monitor or
tv place your mouse over it and it should say Terminal.  You can learn
more regarding yum by using the manual or info feature within YDL 5 and
ask YDL 5 itself. The same instructions apply for any Red Hat Linux
system; although that system may be using KDE or Gnome, instead.  You
can also login to those and other desktop environments within YDL 5
also, it's a good idea to get familiar with those also in case in the
future you come across a system using them -- you won't be stuck.

By the way the * is a wildcard symbol which tells yum to include any
character which follows s; it comes in handy especially when you are
using shells.  Bash, the standard shell used in the Terminal, is one
among many.  Exploring shells can become a separate study topic; again
you can study Unix shells another time.

The manual or info system can be accessed within superuser (symbolized
by #) or user (symbolized by $) mode.  In this situation do:

#man yum

or 

$info yum

2. You can download and install xmms or any other open source program
directly from the people who created it.  This is best left for when
you've acquired skills and practice with basic programming skills
regarding implementing programming procedures to build and install
working programs from source.  The steps include but are not limited to
using the following commands: configure, make, make install, etc.

This capability comes in handy if a particular program is not included
in the standard libraries which yum knows about.

3. For now, the easiest path is to use YDL 5 programs known to the
system as pirut and pup.  Getting to pirut within e17:

Applications --> Add/Remove Sofware

You'll be asked for your password, enter your superuser
password.  

You'll see buttons one of which will be search.  Select Search and
type in xmms.  A listing of all related programs will appear, install
them and you are done.  You can use this procedure for any program.

Getting to pup within e17:

Applications --> System Tools --> Software Updater

Likewise enter your superuser password.  Pup will inform you
of any updates which it is aware of.

Pup and Pirut work best if you are online within YDL 5.  Obvious, but
you'd be surprised how many forget to do this.

That's it.  Good Luck...




On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:32:45 -0700 (PDT)
"Michael J. Baker" <wolf.shade at yahoo.com> wrote:

> i Have tried to get xmms but I have no idea how to install it. I am
> really new to linux and the only experience I do have is with ubuntu.
> Any help would be appreciated. I am running ydl on a PS3 if it
> matters. I have found this mailing list invaluable so far. Thanks.
> 
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