On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 09:30, Robert Styma wrote: > > Robert Styma wrote: > It appears mplayer is a cool app. As this seems to be the general > consensus, it is reasonable to assume that some people have tracked down > all the required RPM's to match the pre-reqs. I am hoping someone took > notes as they did this and could supply a list to the group. The easiest way by far is to just go to apt.freshrpms.net and download the apt rpm for Red Hat 9. Matthias has set up a very nice repository with quite a few indispensible applications. Using apt-get means you don't have to take notes, the program does the dependencies for you. And synaptic gives you a nice graphical front-end for the whole process. > I realize that an exact list may not be possible as it will depend on what > is already loaded on the system, however, any list is better than none. > Finding which RPM contains a library which is not on the system is a long > drawn out process. > > > -- Michael Knepher <limbo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list