[packman] I give up, how do you use additional suse rpms

[leadfoot at lizard.com]

On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 01:34:33PM +0200, Pascal Bleser wrote:
> leadfoot at lizard.com wrote:
> > Hello,
> 
> Hi, sorry for the late reply.

No problem, thanks for replying.


> > to AAC, from MP3, and that I have only a couple of days left to figure
> > out how to play AAC files.  I figured it would be easy, add the guru and
> > packman rpm paths to YaST, and load a few extra packages.  Not so.
> 
> Hmm... AAC is MPEG4 and provided by the faad2 library.
> 
> Make sure to install the libxine1 package from Packman.
> I'm not sure whether it has been built with faad2 support or not though.

I think I have both faa* and libxine1 installed.

Here's every rpm I have installed on my 9.2 systems that include the
strings xmms, faa, xine or amarok in their names.  What did I miss?

xmms-lib-1.2.10-56
perl-Xmms-0.12-372.1
amarok-1.0.2.cvs20040907-12
xmms-gnome2-0-499.1
xmms-musepack-1.1.2-0.pm.1
xmms-plugins-1.2.9-68.1
python-xmms-2.02-83.1
xmms-jack-0.9-4.1
faad2-xmms-plugin-2.0-0.pm.8
amarok-xmms-1.0.2.cvs20040907-12
xmms-1.2.10-56.1
xinetd-2.3.13-42.2
xmms-kde-3.1-50.1
xine-extra-0.99.rc6a-4.1
kdemultimedia3-video-xine-3.3.0-13.1
flac-xmms-1.1.0-391.1
xosd-xmms-2.2.10-2.1
faac-1.24-0.pm.3
faad2-2.0-0.pm.8
libxine1-1.1.2-0.pm.0


> Then just use amarok.
> I'd recommend to install the latest (1.4.1) "amarok" and "amarok-xine"
> packages from the Guru repository.

I use amarok all the time, but it doesn't provide as much control or
visibility in to what formats it supports.  Xmms may be old, but it
works and provides a way to check/change the plug-in configurations.


> > I can't find anything stating that packman and guru packages work OK
> > together.  Can I mix them or not?
> 
> Actually I'm the maintainer of the Guru repository.
> We work very, very closely together. All our packages should work
> together just fine. In case you notice a problem, please let us know
> and we'll fix it.
> So, yes, our packages work OK together.

Great news.  That should be stated on your pages so people are aware
that you've taken the trouble to make that possible.


> > YaST often hangs during the rpm file downloads.  It never seems to restart
> > a hung file download, it will sit there doing nothing for hours, a huge
> > waste of time.
> 
> YaST2 has a number of severe issues on SUSE Linux 10.1 wrt package
> management/
> It's a known problem and has already been mostly addressed by updates
> (available through the online update service).

I'm still using 9.2 and 9.3, as my first pass with 10.1 wasn't positive.


> As a workaround, I'd suggest installing smart instead.
> You'll find instructions on my blog:
> http://dev-loki.blogspot.com/2006/05/how-to-install-and-use-smart-on-suse.html

OK, I'll look in to smart.


> Listen, I don't care. We're not SUSE Linux developers.
> If you have things to complain about, fine, but please report them on
> opensuse at opensuse.org and get help over there.
> It's not the purpose here, we don't do SUSE Linux help/support, we
> "just" build a lot of packages to be used on SUSE Linux.
> 
> > I finally get faad2-xmms-plugin-2.0-0.pm.8 installed on a 9.2 systems,
> > without YaST errors, but it doesn't work.  Starting xmms on the command
> > line (SUSE 9.2) produces this error:
> > "/usr/lib/xmms/Input/libmp4.so: undefined symbol: MP4GetTrackAudioType"
> 
> Have you also installed the latest faad2 package from Packman ?

faad2-xmms-plugin-2.0-0.pm.8 and faad2-2.0-0.pm.8 are installed.