Dave Howorth wrote:
I spent a miserable few hours over the weekend trying to get an 11.2 box play multimedia.
Hi y'all, I fixed it last night. Unfortunately I hadn't then had the chance to read any of your postings so I wasn't able to take advantage of any of your advice, but thanks anyway. For the benefit of posterity, here's what I did: I found [1] which seems to be a pretty good guide and started following its instructions but I kept getting errors at various points. So I decided to post another request for help and in accordance with what [1] says, I ran the commands at [2]. Most commands worked as they should. Where they didn't, I fixed the specific problem that the command highlighted (like still having a bunch of videolan packages installed) and when I got to the end of the list of ten commands with a clean set of output, my multimedia was working! So IMHO: (a) The procedure at [3] is dangerous and the page should be removed. (b) The procedure at [1] is much better and ought to work if you follow it from the start (c) If you do get in trouble, the diagnostic procedure at [2] is excellent. I also learned a couple of things about YaST that I'd never had cause to use before: - the view tab allows you to choose to view packages from a particular repository - the bottom 2 entries on the Package menu are useful :) It's also necessary to use the qt version of YaST but then I do that anyway because the gnome version is so naff. Cheers, Dave [1] http://forums.opensuse.org/english/information-new-users/new-user-how-faq-re... [2] http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-help-here/multimedia/400119-check-you... [3] http://opensuse-community.org/Restricted_formats/11.2 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org