linux installation problems

[fishmonger12]

i'm trying to install beep media player. i unpackage it, cd to the directory, and try and configure it. it goes along for a while, then comes up and tells me it can't locate the x11 headers. i searched online, and people said i needed to install a certain package. tried that, and it said i was missing the packages i needed to install it. it just seems like every time i try to install anything i end up going down this long tree of dependencies, and i haven't gotten to the bottom of it.

secondly, when installing prism54 drivers, i get an error message "cannot stat ksrc/prism54.ko. no such file or directory" i've also looked this up, and i haven't come up with anything.

any help is appreciated.

 

[Nothinman]

You don't say what distro you're using, if you're using Debian sarge or sid you can just type 'apt-get install beep-media-player' and it'll handle all of the dependencies. If you're using Fedora you'll probably need to find a 3rd party repository to use with yum. You should avoid compiling things from source whenever possible, it's largely pointless and requires a lot more work on your part.

As for the prism54 thing, the only thing I can get from that is that you tried to install the driver before compiling it. To compile it, you will need at the very least a kernel-headers package for the kernel you're running.

 

[fishmonger12]

using 64 bit ubuntu, sorry.

so apt-get should work? i can't get anything from an online repository as i don't have an internet connection in linux yet.

 

[Nothinman]

apt should work fine, you may have to enable the universe and/or multiverse repositories though since those whole a lot more packages than just the base system.