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xmmsarts on Debian    [ Software ]

Playing around with the Debian install on my laptop, it's almost ready for prime time.   I can use rdesktop to get to the Windows boxes through terminal services, I can get to the files on my XP install and use OpenOffice to read/edit documents, and XMMS is working under KDE3.

Needed to jump through some hoops though - by default, the xmms Debian package doesn't include an output plugin for libArts.   Little problem if you're trying to use it on KDE3, especially since the 'xmmsarts' package that provides this plugin can't install due to dependency conflicts.   Grrggh.

Still, this isn't as much of a problem as, say, dealing with RedHat.   More or less:

# apt-get source xmmsarts
# apt-get build-dep xmmsarts

[ ... need libglib1.3-dev, which doesn't exist anymore, but libglib2.0-dev is a replacement ...]

# apt-get install libglib2.0-dev xmms-dev libglib1.2-dev libgtk1.2-dev
# cd xmmsarts-0.4
# ./debian/rules binary
# dpkg -i ../xmmsarts*deb

I needed to track down glib-config and gtk-config via the Debian packages search page, but apart from that, not too bad for back-ending around the binary package dependencies.