All type after me: motub is queen, motub is your Linux music guru!

:)

(me runs away to a balcony now)

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6. Now become the 'root' user with the `su` command. Then give the command `make install` to install the executable and documentation under /usr/local. Then say `exit` to drop root privs.

For the benefit of Katherine or other *buntu newbs use 'sudo -i' instead of 'su' - it's a quirk of *buntu that it doesn't have a root account.

Edit: And I agree with motub (preferring Gentoo over *buntu - but I wouldn't recommend it to linux newbs)

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CIC1=CC=C(C2=N[C@@H](CC(OC(C)(C)C)=O)C3=NN=C(C)N3C4=C2C(C)=C(C)S4)C=C1

I'm trying.

I'm failing.



But despite the problems I'm having, the computer hasn't turned itself into a black hole. So maybe there is hope for me yet.


I tried both mplayer and mpg123 but I can't get past the ./configure step. Is there something I need to install before it'll work?

As the log is shorter for mpg123, I'll post that. But I saved the other one as a text document.

kathryn@Galaxy-LInux:~/Desktop/mpg123-0.66$ ./configure
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... 
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.
kathryn@Galaxy-LInux:~/Desktop/mpg123-0.66$ 

(And now I see there's a typo in the computer name. How did I miss that when I was going through the whole Ubuntu setup? *sigh* --- edit... Looks like I manged to get the name fixed. Thank the stars for Google.)


[edit]Changed thread title[/edit]

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Kathryn :o)

I'm trying.

I'm failing.

[snip]
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.
kathryn@Galaxy-LInux:~/Desktop/mpg123-0.66$ [/pre]

G'day Kathryn

Fire up synaptic and hit search - search for gcc and make sure is infact installed. If it is - post the output of config.log

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All I have to say is Eric is a wonderful teacher.

I'm now listening to the soundtrack from Beauty and the Beast (What can I say? I'm a sucker for anything Disney.) via mpg123.


For posterity.

I needed to install g++.

Once I did that, the configure and make went fine. Took a few minutes of trial and error to figure out how to cd to where my music was. And then I just followed what Eric outlined above.

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Kathryn :o)

I understand that Kathryn now also has mplayer working. So now I'd like to find some video for her to play. I'm thinking of a scene from Jurassic Park (the first one), where the raptors have chased the kids into the computer room. The girl has to get on the computer to turn on the door locks, but she's not sure she can do it. The raptors are pushing the door open. She looks at the screen and says "Hey, this is Unix. I can do this!" and the doors are then quickly locked.

Anybody got a way to get that little snip in a form that can be played with mplayer? :-)

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-- Eric Myers

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." -- William Butler Yeats

Eek.

Video?

LOL.

Jurassic Park is one of my favorite movies. I saw it when I was at a summer science program at Dennison University while in high school. One of the two modules I participated in was one on genetic engineering. The professor who taught the module treated the 5 of us to the movie the last night we were there.


But yes, I do have mplayer working. The strange errors I got the first time I tried to build it were from the lack of g++.


Eric deserves a medal for walking me through all of this and answering my numerous questions.

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Kathryn :o)

LOL again.

Today's Ziggy.

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Kathryn :o)

Hi Kathryn,

have you finally managed to stop laughing? ;-)

Nice reading was this, and my congrats to you!

Peter

Hi Kathryn,

have you finally managed to stop laughing? ;-)

Nice reading was this, and my congrats to you!

Peter

LOL.

Yeah. I have managed to stop laughing. CLI isn't so terrifying once you get used to it.



Y'all ready for this... I'm learning Emacs.

OK. OK. Y'all can stop laughing now. No really. I know it's funny and all. But I'm trying :-)

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Kathryn :o)

Y'all ready for this... I'm learning Emacs.

OK. OK. Y'all can stop laughing now. No really. I know it's funny and all. But I'm trying :-)

OK, I've laughed only three seconds long. Not worked with Emacs for at least 8-9 years, but.. Back then it was a huge mammooth, but powerful like nothing else in the area.

Peter

Scary stuff this. I'm testing with Linux at this moment to see if I can get my PC to hang as easily as I can within Uncle Bill's products,

Got radio playing... Ah, using Knoppix Live CD 5.1, although if this works without problems, I'll install some version of Linux to go run with that. If I do get hangs, it's still hardware. :(

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Scary stuff this.

Really?
;-) With such guru helper on your side?

I'm testing with Linux at this moment to see if I can get my PC to hang as easily as I can within Uncle Bill's products,

Got radio playing... Ah, using Knoppix Live CD 5.1, although if this works without problems, I'll install some version of Linux to go run with that. If I do get hangs, it's still hardware. :(

Few weeks ago I've got a Knoppix 5.2 disc, tried it on my C2D notebook - it hanged on boot on some PC card device. I was sad actually, was planning to play a bit around with it ;-(

Scary stuff this. I'm testing with Linux at this moment to see if I can get my PC to hang as easily as I can within Uncle Bill's products,

Got radio playing... Ah, using Knoppix Live CD 5.1, although if this works without problems, I'll install some version of Linux to go run with that. If I do get hangs, it's still hardware. :(

Oh goodie! I'm not the only newb in this thread now.

But you have somewhat of an advantage here. You've got a guru at your side :)

My gurus are on other continents.


(everyone repeat after me... we love our gurus)

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Kathryn :o)

I now have Mepis 6.5.02 installed. I am trying to get my internet there to work. So far, no luck, so posting from Uncle Bill's product.

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I now have Mepis 6.5.02 installed. I am trying to get my internet there to work. So far, no luck, so posting from Uncle Bill's product.

Do let us know how it goes. It's more fun with two of us.

As for me, I'm just reading and experimenting. And I no longer think one typing mistake will turn my computer into a black hole. I worry about destroying the file system instead... so I guess that's progress :)

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Kathryn :o)

And I no longer think one typing mistake will turn my computer into a black hole. I worry about destroying the file system instead... so I guess that's progress :)

That's exactly what I did a year ago to my 3/4 year old server. There were some file system issues, so I was looking for some command to check to filesystem. I do not remember anymore what I've found, it was interactive and some questions were scarying me, so I was typing in n, n, n ... As the lines were wrapped in my PuTTY terminal, I've got the idea of resizing it. After being resized, the terminal possibly sent some configuration strings about new size, containing also other characters than n? Anyway, few days later I've luckily started to install the OS again :-(

Peter

And I no longer think one typing mistake will turn my computer into a black hole. I worry about destroying the file system instead... so I guess that's progress :)

That's exactly what I did a year ago to my 3/4 year old server. There were some file system issues, so I was looking for some command to check to filesystem. I do not remember anymore what I've found, it was interactive and some questions were scarying me, so I was typing in n, n, n ... As the lines were wrapped in my PuTTY terminal, I've got the idea of resizing it. After being resized, the terminal possibly sent some configuration strings about new size, containing also other characters than n? Anyway, few days later I've luckily started to install the OS again :-(

Peter

See. If someone experienced can do something like that, imagine how badly I can screw things up.

Ugh...

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Kathryn :o)

If someone experienced can do something like that, imagine how badly I can screw things up.

Actually I'm not (I did a lot with DEC's VMS and OSF/1 in the dark past, but virtually no Linux), and I've tried to do something, what I did not know, how to... Without a guru on my side, dazled by uncle Bill's products of the bright present... Me bad.

Peter

My adventure for tonight...

Looking at .bashrc using Emacs. Talk about just a touch overwhelming. The comments helped me sort of see what was going on. But I was more looking for the environmental variables (as Eric has been teaching me about them) and for things I recognized (ls was in there).

But now it's time for bed because my brain is all filled up right now.

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Kathryn :o)