sujit sugathan wrote: > i have fc4 installed on my system. i wanted to install xmms onto it . > but when i tried to "make" the file there were some errors due to > which i couldnt compile the program. anyone please help me since > i'm relatively new to linux As others have said, what you probably want to do is install xmms from one of the repositories. # yum install xmms ^(as root) will do this for you. This is if all you want to do is use xmms and listen to music. Also google for 'unofficial fedora faq' for issues related to mp3 files with the standard fedora xmms. If you are for some reason bent on building it yourself there are a stack of dependencies (mainly libraries and header files which are used when building xmms) you need. Among them are _probably_ gtk+-devel, libogg-devel, libvorbis-devel and alsa-lib-devel, but the ./configure script you run before doing make will tell you what you're missing. These can mainly also be installed via yum, eg. # yum install gtk+-devel libogg-devel ... etc You *do not need* those packages unless you are going to be compiling from source. (A note on shell instructions notation, because it's an unspoken convention which might confuse if you're new to Li/U-nix: $ something indicates a line run as a normal user, because this is what the bash prompt will typically look like. # something indicates a line run as root, for the same reason. It's a bad idea to do everything as root.) -- imalone
