houghi wrote:
On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 03:09:42PM +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
Thanks for the response. Looks like that I have no other choice because I cannot really think of installing 11.2/KDE43 for a better "look-see" as I use the digital TV quite a bit (I haven't looked at a real television set for some years now).
11.2 should not be installed on an operational machine. 11.2 M* is still in development and things WILL break. (Sometimes I think developers break things to remember you that it is still in development. ;-)
I need libxine1-codecs (at least) for xine/kaffeine to work. In the software management of YaST this file is shown as available but when selected the error message comes up stating that nothing provides this rpm (even though the packman repo is selected).
Could be anything and when using an 11.1 repo with 11.2 M6, it could be unlikely that somebody will take the time to resolve it unless something very trivial.
I am wondering why such a codecs file would need to be altered in some way (recompiled) to work with 11.2 and not be "provided" in its 11.1 form?
No idea. If jou need your computer to work, use 11.1. Using 11.2 for a machine you _must_ use is asking for problems.
No, the 11.2 "machine" (actually 2 HDs sitting in cradles and interchangable with my 'main' system) is only intended to be used for testing.
If there is some reason that you want to test 11.2 now and be able to also test its video capabilities, so that in mid november you are sure to install 11.2, then best compile everything yourself concerning the video parts.
But isn't 11.2 due out around that time? So doing any testing with missing features is not really "testing". I spent hours today downloading the missing dependencies for compiling the source (using rpmbuild) for use with kaffeine and xine -- and after much farting around by the rpmbuild it came up with the message that it exited with an Error 1. So, all the time and effort was a total waste of time and effort.
What I would do is if I was dependent of Packman is prospone the testperiod to mid november. If that were not possible, then I would be testing 11.1 now and use that for the next year.
I have no problems with xine under 11.1. There is a slight hassle with kaffeine, though, which was never evident until some very recent updates of some files; what they are I don't know but I do know that they have something to do with KDE4.3. I have written to the author, or maintainer of kaffeine, a couple of times but I got no response from him- not even a simple courteous response to state that my email(s) had been received.
houghi
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