Kaffeine on hd-install

**towjamb** · 01-08-2004, 05:51 PM

Friends,
Here's how I installed Kaffeine, a real nice KDE media player based on Xine, on a Knoppix 3.3 hard drive install.
Get the latest Mandrake rpm here:
http://vgroup3.ath.cx/progs/linux/vi...0.4-1.i386.rpm
Open a terminal and use alien -d "package" to make a .deb. After installing, you will also have to apt-get install libpng3 to meet a hidden dependency.
Kaffeine will play all movie and music files, melds nicely with KDE, is easy to use and configure and, so far, quite stable. Also comes with a plug-in to preview complete/incomplete DIVX/XVID movies right in Konquorer -- sweet.
Enjoy.

Rick

**sakiZ** · 12-08-2004, 08:53 PM

I also use Xanrdos (not as good as Knoppix) and you can get Kaffeine from here in deb format:

http://support.xandros.com/downloads...contrib/andrew

sakiZ

**gnarvaja** · 12-09-2004, 05:30 PM

From the Kaffeine pages:

Code:

apt-get install kaffeine kaffeine-mozilla

Much easier

--GN

**aay** · 12-11-2004, 07:01 PM

Originally Posted by gnarvaja

From the Kaffeine pages:

Code:

apt-get install kaffeine kaffeine-mozilla

Much easier

--GN

Agreed. Don't use the rpm just use apt to grab the deb and resolve possible dependencies.

**sakiZ** · 12-15-2004, 06:10 PM

Ok great!

However, I did not want it as a plug in for Mozilla

So I just used

apt-get install kaffeine.

**gnarvaja** · 12-15-2004, 07:13 PM

Originally Posted by sakiZ

However, I did not want it as a plug in for Mozilla

So I just used

apt-get install kaffeine.

You can always do:

Code:

apt-get remove <package>

BTW, looking into other tools I came accross aptitude, I find it much easier to use than dselect as a char based UI to apt-get.

--GN

**sakiZ** · 01-27-2005, 05:35 PM

I downloaded and installed the .5 RC2-2 version. I used a debian link to down load it.

Type Kaffeine into Yahoo or Google look for the links.

It's a winner!!!

saziZ

**Markus** · 01-27-2005, 07:46 PM

Mmm, your still not liking apt, are you?

markus@fujibox:~$ apt-cache policy kaffeine
kaffeine:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 0.4.92+0.5rc2-2
Version Table:
0.4.92+0.5rc2-2 0
990 ftp://ftp.fi.debian.org unstable/main Packages