xmms help

[sprite-]

ok i need to install xmms but it won't let me cuz it says i need glib2.2 or something so does this mean i need alteast glib 2.2 or glib 2.2 specifically? and how the heck do i install these darn glibs =(

[Tyr-7BE]

That all depends on what distro you're using. What distro are you using? Most distros come pre-packaged with glibc2.1 so chances are you'll need to upgrade...not always easy, but certainly do-able.

[bdg1983]

Perhaps a older version of xmms would work with glibc2.1 and the upgrade would not be necessary.

[FORTRAN gy]

There is much that you didn't tell us, but I won't let that stop me. I'm running an old distro (Mandrake 6.0) so I run into dependency issues often. When I went to install xmms-1.2.2 it needed libxml.so.1 which I found in libxml-1.8.9. That needed several other packages, so I constructed a dependency tree with the help of rpmfind.net:

xmms-1.2.2-1
/\
libxml-1.8.9-2
-------------------------------------------
/\ /\ /\
rpm2html-1.2 glibc-2.1.3-11 zlib-1.1.3-10

Start at the bottom:
rpm -Uvh filename

Your particular dependencies will be different, but this type of organization will get you through it.