i also have been troubled by red hat 8.0 i would go back to 7.3, but i never really liked it either. i wish corel had never quit, they had such a nice system out of the box everything was configured almost. oh well the only way im gong to be happy is to go LFS i guess.

Redhat not only uses RPM it is the devil that spawned RPM plus its compiled for i386 therefore it SUCKS. What is this no GUI RPM package manager? Its there just click on an RPM of course finding the name of it may be hard since redhat insists on making its utilities 400 character things "the-program-that-will-set-up-networking-and-set-it-upGOOD"
what is up with that anyways?

Just use gentoo and forget this red hat buisness

thanx cscgal for those rpm commands I am pretty new to linux and was looking for those

I have been battleing with RH8 too.
I have an issue with samba and Kde
I can open konquror and view smb://myserver/
I see all my shares but when i open one, It won't view it.
Any help there would be great.

BTW: I've found that most programs like k3b and Kopete, where you haveto compile have problems unless you configure with prefix.

./configure -prefix=/usr

I get so annoyed with no standards for file structure on different distros.
/usr
/opt/kde
you know...GRRRRR

Can someone here post what files I need to get for
mp3 support? I guess it's XMMS MP3 somthing.
Also the codecs stuff. Or if you could e-mail me at ftz@mchsi.com

Thanks,
Marc (FTZ)

heres the file you need for mp3 support under redhat 8

http://havardk.xmms.org/dist/xmms-1.2.7-rh8-rh9-rpm/

being a newbie myself it was easy to get it installed, apparently as the page says, there were legal concerns so mp3 support was left out,

you install this way

rpm -ivh xmms-mpg123-1.2.7-21.i386.rpm

I use mplayer

Thank you...
Got xmms installed.
I managed to find the info to update my RH8.0 box to kde3.1.2 and it works good.
apt-get.. I didn't even know about the app until I ran into this forum..


Thank you much

I posted this somewhere else ... but just thought I'd tell you all about a great RPM package manager by Ximian called red-carpet 8) It works with RH8 and RH9 in addition to the 7.x versions

...doesn't anyone use Slackware anymore? I pride myself in never having owned/built/used/installed RedHat.

I'd love to be able to help everyone with Linux, but everyone and their brother seems to be stuck on RH for some reason.

...and in case any of you are wondering, I use Slackware, Debian, FreeBSD, and sometimes Solaris. I still have the original USENET post by Linus announcing Linux, and I've been following it ever since.

Also, I'm NOT a programmer. I can't help with questions relating to Perl, C++, Java, or any other programming language. I usually hack/slash my way through things when I need to regarding shell scripts (I don't consider that programming) but nothing using the abovementioned languages.

For everything else, though, I'd be glad to help