Installing XMMS on Debian Squeeze from a Package
/ Installing XMMS on Debian - the debian way
I use Debian Linux for my desktop for quite some time; Even though
there are plenty of MP3 / CD players around in Debian, I'm used to
the good old
XMMS, hence I often prefer to use
XMMS
to play my music instead of newer players like RhythmBox or
audacious.
Actually audacious is not bad substitute for XMMS and is by default
part of Debian but to me it seems more buggy and tends to crash
during playing some music formats more than xmms ....
As most people might know,
XMMS is no longer supported in
almost all modern Linux distributions, so anyone using Debian,
Ubuntu or other deb derivative Linux would have to normally compile
it from source.
Compiling from source is time consuming and I think often it
doesn't pay back the effort. Thanksfully, though not officially
supported by Debian crew XMMS still can be installed using a
deb
xmms prebuilt package repository kindly provided by a hacker fellow
knuta.
Using the pre-build deb packages, installing
xmms on new Debian
installs comes to:
debian:~# echo 'deb
http://www.pvv.ntnu.no/~knuta/xmms/squeeze ./' >>
/etc/apt/sources.list
debian:~# echo 'deb-src http://www.pvv.ntnu.no/~knuta/xmms/squeeze
./' >> /etc/apt/sources.list
debian:~# apt-get update && apt-get -y install
xmms
There are also deb
xmms built for Ubuntu, so Ubuntu users
could install
xmms using repositories:
deb http://www.pvv.ntnu.no/~knuta/xmms/karmic ./
deb-src http://www.pvv.ntnu.no/~knuta/xmms/karmic ./
That's all now xmms is ready to use. Enjoy :)