On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 16:22, Charles Wright wrote: > Has anyone else had trouble getting XMMS to play using the arts driver? > When I try, I get > > arts_init error: loading the aRts backend "/usr/lib/libartscbackend.la" failed > > printed on the console. The libartscbackend.la isn't in /usr/lib. Do I > need to install some other package (arts is already installed, I'm using > KDE), or tell XMMS to look somewhere else for the library? Or is this a > bug? > > It's not really a problem for me. The esound plugin doesn't sound > so great, but the OSS one works just fine. > > -charles > > Try installing arts-devel. There seems to be a common theme running through KDE 3.1 in RH9, install the -devel of every time or it might not work. Because the program wants the .la, but it got packaged in the -devel. I have already run into this with Desktop Sharing. I am now expecting to see a mass errata of KDE 3.1 for RH9. Of course I could be wrong and it is just a problem with the arts and kdenetwork packages.
