installing software/files

[rossi46]

Hi I'm currently trying out Linspire after triying out Suze and Mandriva anongst others. I got the hang of using rpm files in the other distros but I'm struggling with the Debian method tbh..

I have libdvd~1.bz2 on my desktop but no amount of tinkering will get it to extract/install.

Can somebody tell me the correct command, please?

I've tried 'tar xvf --bz2 libdvd~1.bz2' and all variations of, but to no avail.

(I know it's my stupidity that's causing this )

cheers

Paul

[lakerdonald]

It's just a bz2 file, not a tar.bz2?

[rossi46]

just a bz2 file, mate

[lakerdonald]

bzip2 -d foo.bz2

[farslayer]

is that libdvdcss2 ? if so you should just add the apropriate repositories and you can simply apt-get install libdvdcss2 and it will download and install for you..

that package is located in the debian-marillat repository. see the following link for repository info (what to add to you sources.list) http://debian.video.free.fr/

[rossi46]

Thanks for the replies, guys. The machine I'm trying to install libdvd on is not online enabled (yet), so I'm transferring files with my usb stick. The libdvd file is the very same compressed file I used to enable dvd playback when I was running Mandriva.

In Mandriva it was listed as libdvdcss and in Linspire it's listed as libdvd~1. It is the very same file I've used for all the previous distros I've tried. Should I be using a Debian-specific libdvd file? Do I employ the same installation method to enable dvd playback in Linspire that I used with Mandriva? i.e., ./configure, make, make install, etc?

Paul

[Freedom]

I really do love my repositories! Ubuntu is great with it!

[Vergil83]

Thanks for the replies, guys. The machine I'm trying to install libdvd on is not online enabled (yet), so I'm transferring files with my usb stick. The libdvd file is the very same compressed file I used to enable dvd playback when I was running Mandriva.

In Mandriva it was listed as libdvdcss and in Linspire it's listed as libdvd~1. It is the very same file I've used for all the previous distros I've tried. Should I be using a Debian-specific libdvd file? Do I employ the same installation method to enable dvd playback in Linspire that I used with Mandriva? i.e., ./configure, make, make install, etc?

Paul

yes, if you used that method on mandriva, you can do in on linspire

or you could download
ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/...9-0.0_i386.deb
and copy that to linspire, and then from the commandline do as root
dpkg -i libdvdcss2_1.2.9-0.0_i386.deb