Two Big Problems - Help me out!

[M.A.D. 9-11]

Aight, so, this is Jay. I'm usin Kubuntu 6.06 LTS. And havin loadsa problems.

First, I can't play mp3s and video clips. To be droppin the details, mp3s stop before they start but amoroK is able to read the ID3 Tags (just so you know). They don't work in Kaffeine either. Same problem and a "X" sign on the volume icon. But it says the mute is off. I've tried togglin but it was a waste. About video clips, they play them but with no sound. Help me out!

And secondly, usin Adept I've downloaded the Apollon which apparently is missin the Fasttrack plug-in which apparently can't be found in Adept. Anyway I've download that but now pretty much unable to install cuz it says...

checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... no
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.

... when I try to do "./configure". Help me out!

[claydoh]

Re: Two Big Problems - Help me out!

If you add extra repositories
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Kubuntu
you will find apollon and its dependencies are available in adept

For mp3, video issues, look here for the why and the how :
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats

Now if you really want to learn how to compile, you will need to install the package 'build-essential', and then install a lot of needed -dev packages. installing kdelibs4-dev will get you started with a lot of KDE related build dependencies

[M.A.D. 9-11]

Re: Two Big Problems - Help me out!

Aight I shoulda mentioned that I've already installed Apollon and it's workin perfectl,y. It's just it ain't got the Fasttraclk plugin which ain't avaiiable in Adept either man.

[claydoh]

Re: Two Big Problems - Help me out!

Hmm I thought openft was a successor to kazaa/fasttrack, guess it isn't really

http://gift-fasttrack.berlios.de/, you can get a deb file from there, don't know the quality but it is from the guys who make gift, the backbone P2P libraries apollon is the gui front-end to.

Also look here for a different how-to:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=198945