Kaffeine on hd-install

[towjamb]

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]

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]

From the Kaffeine pages:

apt-get install kaffeine kaffeine-mozilla

Much easier

--GN

[aay]

From the Kaffeine pages:

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]

Ok great!

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

So I just used

apt-get install kaffeine.

[gnarvaja]

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

So I just used

apt-get install kaffeine.

You can always do:

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]

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]

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

[rich55]

granted using apt is more challenging and perhaps more fun; but why not just use synaptic or kpackage to get this (and most other programs)?