[Gllug] DivX on SUSE 8.1 Personal Edition
Simon Stewart
sms at lateral.net
Sun Jan 5 01:09:26 UTC 2003
My house-mate is slowly making the transition from Windows to Linux
after having his machine choke one too many times. He's got some fairly
typical expectations, such as being able to browse the web, rip CDs and
play movies. He's bought a copy of Suse 8.1 "personal edition" in the
(not unreasonable) belief that it should meet all his expectations.
Of course, it's not quite that easy. For some inexplicable reason, the
version of SUSE that he has doesn't appear to ship with any of the
devel packages (specifically those for gtk and glib) This is a problem
because the version of mplayer that ships with SUSE doesn't play back
DivXs (you can see where this is going, can't you?) His argument, and I
agree, is that since this is meant to be a personal edition, and
therefore probably bought by migrating Windows users, so if one wants
to compile something from source it shouldn't be necessary to hit the
Suse FTP server, knowing which package you're looking for, and how to
install that package (resolving any dependencies) using RPM (assuming
that you realise that "rpm" is the command to use, that is)
So, two questions: am I missing something obvious (some hidden setting
is yast, perhaps, or an invisible package in the "install software"
option, or, best of all, an option to update the list of available
packages and then "do the right thing") And can anyone suggest a Suse
and KDE friendly media player, that comes with support for MPEG, AVI
and DivX?
Cheers,
Simon
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