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by **Calum** » Fri May 30, 2003 3:19 am

is there a text list i can look at on the 'net somewhere that will tell me the contents of red hat 9? i plan to install it (replacing slack 9) but i would like to know beforehand which other packages will need to be downloaded (as i use a lot of stuff that didn't come with slack and i want to know how much of it will be included in RH).

thanks in advance etc.

by **agent007** » Fri May 30, 2003 4:11 am

I've uploaded the .TBL files......U can go through them since they contain a list of all the packages in RH9. These are of the 3 install CD's. The others are documentation which I dont have...

rgds,
007

by **Calum** » Fri May 30, 2003 4:39 am

thank you 007, that is EXACTLY what i need!

now i can grep for all the stuff i had to install manually in slack

edit: looks like still no mp3 support? is that right?

by **Tux** » Fri May 30, 2003 5:33 am

Yeah still not there, but xmms.org still do their little jim'll fix it rpm.

by **agent007** » Fri May 30, 2003 5:38 am

Ur welcome! U have to dl the mp3 rpm and mplayer for movies! They havent included mplayer too...

007

Calum wrote:thank you 007, that is EXACTLY what i need! now i can grep for all the stuff i had to install manually in slack

edit: looks like still no mp3 support? is that right?

by **Void Main** » Fri May 30, 2003 7:14 am

Or you can install apt and then just do a "apt-get install mpg321" so your audio apps will have MP3 support and then "apt-get install mplayer-skins" for MPlayer.

by **Calum** » Fri May 30, 2003 11:50 am

agent007 wrote:Ur welcome! U have to dl the mp3 rpm and mplayer for movies! They havent included mplayer too...

i'll be installing mplayer from source as i think that is the only way to get all the configure options i want also i need to disable everything i don't use in mplayer to make use of all 700MHz of my CPU

by **Void Main** » Fri May 30, 2003 12:35 pm

Or if you get that new PIII it should blow that celery stick out the door. I am quite pleased with everything that mplayer has compiled in from FreshRPMS, of course I downloaded all the codecs from MPlayerHQ and put them in /usr/lib/win32. It seems to do everything. Of course if you want to change the compile options just:

# apt-get souce mplayer
# cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
# vi mplayer.spec
# rpm -bb mplayer.spec
# rpm -Uvh ../RPMS/i386/mplayer* --force

by **Calum** » Sat May 31, 2003 10:33 am

that brings me to another point, i know nothing about making my own binary rpms, and i am going to move from having slack as primary OS w mandrake as secondary to having RHas firs tand slack as secondary. This will mean i will want to prepare my own rpms pretty quickly. Does anybody know of a nice quick tutorial telling me how to do this?
also, is there an easy way to find out what options the freshrpms version of mplayer has been compiled with?

thanks of course.

by **Tux** » Sat May 31, 2003 10:48 am

Calum wrote:that brings me to another point, i know nothing about making my own binary rpms, and i am going to move from having slack as primary OS w mandrake as secondary to having RHas firs tand slack as secondary. This will mean i will want to prepare my own rpms pretty quickly. Does anybody know of a nice quick tutorial telling me how to do this?
also, is there an easy way to find out what options the freshrpms version of mplayer has been compiled with?

thanks of course.

You need to read the *.spec file int the src rpm.

by **Void Main** » Sat May 31, 2003 1:49 pm

Here's the mplayer spec file for the current FreshRPMS build. I have built a few simple RPMS out of apps that currently didn't have an RPM. See my RPM Section. The best tutorial I have found is on FreshRPMS called The Fight. Also, I have a thread on it around here somewhere.... Ahh, here's a thread I attempted to start on the subject:

viewtopic.php?t=345

by **Calum** » Sat May 31, 2003 2:24 pm

once again void main, thank you for taking the time to do my research for me.

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