[catastrophee]

Hi guys im having a buncha problems atm check my posts to see in detail about the agp 8x issue. Ive tried using linux before but that got toasted when i tried to make mp3's play on ubunto linunx.

Im looking to install linux and get everything working, and will need some guidance as i am a complete linux noobie! I also hope i can get the via 4 in 1 drivers installed ( or an alternative driver to get my mobo's agp 3.0 enabled ) so im able to play games.

Perhaps the issue with my computer is windows and their stupid sp packs, and linux is the only hope i have.

[AvvY]

Not exactly sure what your after with the AGP stuff. But Ubuntu is really good for linux newbians - such as myself. I have been using it and I have learnt more though this than the other few distros I have tried.

From MP3 playback in Ubuntu you need to install the gstreamer packages. Check out UbuntuGuide.org, it has so many great tips for setting up a Ubuntu system - including specific info about the gstreamer packages.

Good luck.

Late,

[catastrophee]

i mgonna try to install a small old 4gb HD to my computer to install linux on.... it always erases my whole drive when i try to set partitions...

[catastrophee]

Ok installed linux and here i AM i copied and pasted this into terminal to iinstall limewire is this how i install the mp3 stuff as well ?

wget -c http://frankandjacq.com/ubuntuguide/...eSoftOther.zip
sudo unzip -u LimeWireSoftOther.zip -d /opt/
sudo chown -R root:root /opt/LimeWire/
sudo gedit /usr/bin/runLime.sh

[catastrophee]

I got an error ........ after that it gave me " Could not open the file "/opt/LimeWire" The file you are trying to open is not a regular file.

Just after i pasted "cd /opt/LimeWire/
./runLime.sh " after i had got the file limwire.

[CouchMaster]

Do an apt-get update
Then apt-get install *name of program you want*
Then you can apt-cache search *name of program you just installed*
To play MP3s get xmms
also get streamtuner to go with it and you will have hundreds of radio stations to listen to and record. StreamTuner is a must have!

[catastrophee]

So i got xmm's and i see it in the cache ... how do i run it and play my mp3 fiels >

[catastrophee]

Errors errors and more rrors Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package StreamTuner

[CouchMaster]

Originally Posted by catastrophee

So i got xmm's and i see it in the cache ... how do i run it and play my mp3 fiels >

First look to see if it didn't install into the menu in multimedia - which it probably did.
if not, start it from the run command by typing xmms

[catastrophee]

NM i figured it out just a noob to linux....

I need help with unzipping the limewire file i got.... i see it there but dont know what to do...

[CouchMaster]

Originally Posted by catastrophee

NM i figured it out just a noob to linux....

I need help with unzipping the limewire file i got.... i see it there but dont know what to do...

I'm guessing you have a tar file?
It would be something like,
tar -xzvf limewire*.gz
then probably
./configure
make
make install
But I've never had to do that yet -
did you try to apt-get limewire first?

[catastrophee]

wget -c http://frankandjacq.com/ubuntuguide...reSoftOther.zip
sudo unzip -u LimeWireSoftOther.zip -d /opt/
sudo chown -R root:root /opt/LimeWire/
sudo gedit /usr/bin/runLime.sh

This is what i did so the files name is a .zip its named LimeWireSoftOther.zip

[CouchMaster]

Originally Posted by catastrophee

wget -c http://frankandjacq.com/ubuntuguide...reSoftOther.zip
sudo unzip -u LimeWireSoftOther.zip -d /opt/
sudo chown -R root:root /opt/LimeWire/
sudo gedit /usr/bin/runLime.sh

This is what i did so the files name is a .zip its named LimeWireSoftOther.zip

Man, you got me on that one! I have no idea how to proceed with it. And the link didn't work either.

[catastrophee]

So can you help me install limewire or any other downloading proggy ?

[CouchMaster]

Well, this program is probably one of those in the TSG hit list because it's P2P - so I'm gonna stop here - good luck.
You might like the Ubuntu forums though - they are much more relaxed.
http://ubuntuforums.org/