Help With Opie Player And Mplayer

[quasarlyte]

Hey guys..

     Bare with me.  I'm just transitioning to Zaurus and the linux world from Windows, so I need a lot of help.  Yesterday, I installed OPIE 3.5.3 on my Zaurus 5500.  (SUCCESS!!) Next I tried to install OPIE Media Player 2, but it kept saying missing this and that files. I'm so confused. Can sombody direct me or give me instructions on how to install all the needed files for OPIE Player 2 and mplayer so I can play music and watch videos?

Many thanks.

quasarlyte

[juanma]

First, excuse my bad english.

Well, you must go to the package-manager, in the configuration tab and click in "update lists".
when you've made that install the "opie-apkg package manager" and after uninstall the package manager, aqpkg is more stable.

When you finish you must not have anymore problems installing programas and the dependencies will be ok (in theory hehe)

Hey guys..

     Bare with me.  I'm just transitioning to Zaurus and the linux world from Windows, so I need a lot of help.  Yesterday, I installed OPIE 3.5.3 on my Zaurus 5500.  (SUCCESS!!) Next I tried to install OPIE Media Player 2, but it kept saying missing this and that files. I'm so confused. Can sombody direct me or give me instructions on how to install all the needed files for OPIE Player 2 and mplayer so I can play music and watch videos?

Many thanks.

quasarlyte
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[PrOtOn]

I don't know if you are interested, but I using xmms on my zaurus.
 
 First, you should add the address to the new feed to your /etc/ipkg.conf file.
 Here is the address: src/gz machine http://www.openzaurus.org/official/unstabl.../machine/collie

 Also, use the terminal to install packages. As juanma said, the package manager is very confusing. Using the terminal, you are sure where you installing the packages using the right switches.

 Commands go like these:
 ipkg install -d "location" "ipkgname"
 (location= to location you want to install the package, such as sd, cf, ram)
 (ipkgname= the name of the package you want to install)
 (and please no quotes, hehehe)
 ipkg-link mount /media/card/packages
 (this command will link the packages to yor zaurus in case you install them on your sd card.
 ipkg-link add "ipkgname"
 (this command works like the one above)

 Hope that helps for now.

[jomo]

Hey guys..

     Bare with me.  I'm just transitioning to Zaurus and the linux world from Windows, so I need a lot of help.  Yesterday, I installed OPIE 3.5.3 on my Zaurus 5500.  (SUCCESS!!) Next I tried to install OPIE Media Player 2, but it kept saying missing this and that files. I'm so confused. Can sombody direct me or give me instructions on how to install all the needed files for OPIE Player 2 and mplayer so I can play music and watch videos?

Many thanks.

quasarlyte
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Been through this agony.  The principle question is: Can you get online with your zaurus?  Ie do you have a wifi card or wired Lan card in it?  If you do, then you need to install the packages from the feed.  Doing it this way will install all the necessary dependencies (those files it's b!tch!ng at you about).  If you do not have internet access from the Z, the 'easiest' way is to download everything to a local machine, connect to the local machine using the serial cable as if you were 'syncing' it up, and redirect the package manager to the local machine.

Hope that helps.