unable to apply skin on XMMS

[saurabh kakkar]

Thanks rayraven and praka123 for there support and effort because of them i m now running vumeter skins afther an effort of 6 hours thanks once again

 

[ray|raven]

You had enuf patience to do it and IMO thats what got you through it.
Anyways, Have fun with it.

 

[saurabh kakkar]

^NO,for these simple plugins,it wont break anything hopefully,most prolly the plugins will go to the path /usr/lib/xmms/plugins/ etc
@kakkad:
if u can complete from source installation,do it.
else use:

sudo apt-get install alien

then,download vumeter rpm from here:
*rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/5888350/com/vumeter-0.9.2-3.12.i586.rpm.html
now go to the directory where u downloaded the rpm(use "cd" command)
and run:

sudo checkinstall --to-deb vumeter-0.9.2-3.12.i586.rpm

though i have installed after a lot of pain but i wana know whether this method of converting rpm to deb would have saved me from this pain
also i wana know what is this alien ?

 

[praka123]

sorry,In a jiffy,I typed checkinstall in post #19 EDITED.
BTW,checkinstall is a neat way of creating .debs from source packages.
when we do ./configure, make and make install, replacing make install we can use "checkinstall -D" to generate and install .debs.

@kakkad:
alien:

Description: convert and install rpm and other packages
Alien allows you to convert LSB, Red Hat, Stampede and Slackware Packages
into Debian packages, which can be installed with dpkg.
.
It can also generate packages of any of the other formats.
.
This is a tool only suitable for binary packages.

*linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2005/06/convert-between-rpm-deb-and-tgz.html

 

[Rahim]

[SIZE=-1]^ /usr/share/audacious/Skins[/SIZE]

Thanks rayraven.
That would require root access, to copy them, isnt it?

 

[praka123]

^ofcourse!needs root access!

 

[ray|raven]

^Yep.