Trying to do things on SUSE
OpenSUSE 10.2 comes witg the xine engine to handle streaming data. But without support for the Microsoft formats (WMA for Audio and WMV for Video) and several other formats – including film on DVD, for legal reasons. No problem – just download a package – but you’ll have to build it from scratch. Neither a problem – were it not that that requires another library from yet another source – and before you locate that file, you’re off the street for a considerable time. Again, this package has to be build from scratch – but the instructions are not very clear – the documentation even states it outdated!.
Anyway – I got that package built, but the package I want to build cannot locate it. I guess I need to move it all to another place – and even that is one big question mark: /usr? /var? /usr/local? /var/local? even /etc might do.
It would be really helpful if there was at least some standardization. But I think that’s too much asked.
There’s one thing I really like: spellcheck when typing this text (using Firefox on Iona – the SUSE box itself).