installing xmms in ubuntu--please help!

[trevvor]

i am a complete noob to linux, i just installed it last night. I downloaded XMMS and now i want to install it, but I have no idea how. It is a tar.bz2 file and i would really appreciate if someone could completely walk me through on how to install it. thanks!
-trevor

[oz]

Welcome to the forums, trevvor

Rather than mess with a tarball, why not just use apt-get?

apt-get install xmms

[trevvor]

i typed that in to the terminal and got this

could not open lock file blah blah

the file is on my desktop. can you explain in a little more detail sorry im so dumb with this heh

[oz]

You'll need to delete the "lock" file, then before you can use apt-get, or synaptic. I'm not sure where it's located in ubuntu, either, but maybe in /var/lib/dpkg/

Once you've deleted the lock file you should be able to use synaptic or apt-get again. Be sure you don't have synaptic or aptitude running when you try to delete the lock file.

If you want to install the tarball, here's a HowTo:

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/lin...re-readme.html

[trevvor]

i tried to delete it, but it said i do not have the permission to do so.whatsss goingg on

[spoon!]

did you log in as root?

[oz]

Yes, you have to be root as suggested by spoon to delete that file.

Here's another howto straight from the Debian website for a better understanding of how to use apt-get. It's the howto I used back when I ran Debian:

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch1.en.html

[Corvair]

Umm, that's not actually the correct command;

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get xmms

It harps like that when you forget sudo...

[bubblebutt]

hey all,

i agree the sudo commands should work but when I tried to install xmms with apt-get here is what I got:

$sudo apt-get update
Password:
Reading package lists... Done

$sudo apt-get xmms
E: Invalid operation xmms

In Synaptic I can't even see xmms as an option.

Thanks for any additional help.

BB

[jjr2527]

Now you are forgetting Ozar's suggestion but you are close...


I think you are using
sudo apt-get xmms

You want to use
sudo apt-get install xmms