[ale] playing DVD on 7.3

Sat Jul 6 19:52:54 EDT 2002

Ahh, but since xinetd is a package that has nothing to do with the Xine distribution,
you would be in trouble! Â Good thing you posted and didn't jump in. Â Xinetd
is a replacement for inetd which is the internet superserver and starts up
services such as ftp and telnet on demand as requests come in to your box.
Â You don't want to delete that.

Yes, you are right about the difficulty of admin, in that knowledge of the
software on the machine is imperative when coming upon decisions like this.
Â However, there isn't and probably won't ever be a way around this stuff
in any OS due to freedom of package naming conventions. Â Now rpm -e the other
two packages which won't hurt anything and probably has no effects, but we
will wait for your reply. ;-) 
Dow

PS. Â Sorry we couldn't get that movie going in time for the hot date, Â maybe
next time.

ChangingLINKS.com wrote:
<blockquote type="cite"
 cite="mid200207062023.24728.x3 at ChangingLINKS.com">
  RedHat is not making it hard, huh?
You are a pretty good sysadmin if I have ever seen one, right?
You advice? If it says that something else depends on it, rpm -e
<foo-dependant>
Hookay. Dependencies, right? The last time I tried to be a sysadmin and
understand rpms, I got hit with dependency HELL. Taking your advice:

[root at change root]# rpm -e xine*
error: package xine* is not installed
[root at change root]# rpm -qa xine*
xine-0.9.8-4
xine-devel-0.9.8-4
xinetd-2.3.4-0.8
[root at change root]# rpm -e xinetd-2.3.4-0.8
error: removing these packages would break dependencies:
        xinetd >= 2.1.8.9pre15 is needed by fam-2.6.7-6
        xinetd is needed by finger-server-0.17-9
        xinetd is needed by talk-server-0.17-12
        xinetd is needed by telnet-server-0.17-20
        xinetd is needed by wu-ftpd-2.6.2-5
        xinetd   is needed by amanda-client-2.4.2p2-7
        xinetd   is needed by amanda-server-2.4.2p2-7
        xinetd is needed by comsat-0.17-3
        xinetd   is needed by imap-2001a-10
        xinetd is needed by samba-swat-2.2.3a-6
        xinetd is needed by tftp-server-0.28-2
        xinetd is needed by vsftpd-1.0.1-5
[root at change root]#

RET. QUESION: What do you think will happen when I try
"[root at change root]# rpm -e <all those packages>" (/ / / / / / / / because
 the command runs past line after line)

Right. More and more dependencies until my entire OS is removed from the
computer <-exaggeration but not too far from accurate. Right. I lose packages
tha I want to keep.

7.3 would be better WITHOUT *any* Xine installed so that it can work as
smoothly as 7.2. Thus, RedHat made it "harder" to play DVDs. I gotta date in
in less than an hour - I need to play DVDs next to my bed . . . . . :) (which
is the reason for my "outrage")
--
Wishing you Happiness, Joy and Laughter,
Drew Brown
http://www.ChangingLINKS.com

On Saturday 06 July 2002 14:23, James P. Kinney III wrote:

    RedHat is not making things hard. RPM's are pretty good if the sysadmin
understands how to use them (ditto for .debs)

There is a listing for xine.rpm (and source rpm) on www.rpmfind.net.
That will be the easiest way to install.

To remove: rpm -e xine

If it says that something else depends on it, rpm -e <foo-dependant> as
well.

The headache with ogle on RH7.3 can go away by compiling the app from
src.rpm. The ogle website has everything you need:

http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/redhat.shtml

Due to the legal status of decss, RedHat will probably never directly
support ogle.

On Sat, 2002-07-06 at 14:00, ChangingLINKS.com wrote:

      Is RedHat doing a making it harder to use Xine? According to the Xine web
site, "The xine-lib archive must be installed first. " (text below)
I have never had to uninstall a program like Xine with Linux before. How
do I remove Xine from my system completely, so that I can install Xine
again (with the lib first)? Is there an easier way? Why would RedHat
include a semi-functioning install that you have to remove and re-install
to get to work with DVD?
--
Wishing you Happiness, Joy and Laughter,
Drew Brown
http://www.ChangingLINKS.com

3.2 Quick-start installation guide

Extract the Xine source archives as outlined in the section entitled
Compiling and installing Xine. The xine-lib archive must be installed
first. Change to the xine-lib.x.y.z directory and configure the source
code for your machine and compile the code by typing:
  $ ./configure
  $ make

You may wish to use the ./configure --help command to see if you have to
setup any machine specific options.

Now, as the user root, enter the following command:
  $ make all install

IMPORTANT! Before you can compile xine-ui, you may need to inform your
system of the location of the xine libraries, you may need to set the
LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable to the directory you installed the
Xine library and/or run the ldconfig program. For example, if you had
installed xine-lib to /usr/local, you may need to enter the following
command before compiling xine-ui.

  $ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Once the Xine library is installed, you can repeat these steps with the
xine-ui.x.y.z directory.

On Saturday 06 July 2002 12:30, you wrote:

        Have you installed libCSS? See helpful attachment.

On Saturday 06 July 2002 12:21 pm, ChangingLINKS.com wrote:

          ale,07-06-02 1212
I have upgraded to 7.3 which has Xine already installed in it by
default. Unfortunately, when I try to play DVDs, Xine says that it
cannot play the encrypted DVD. When I try to install Ogle just like I
would with RedHat 7.2 it does not work. When I try to install Xine
like I would with 7.2, it does not work.
Can someone give me exact diretions to get DVDs to play with RedHat
7.3.

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