Posts Tagged ‘ubuntu’

Getting XMMS back to Debian/Ubuntu

Sunday, March 15th, 2009

X MultiMedia System, old, simple & light player

X MultiMedia System, old, simple & light player

I found out just now that Debian, along with couple other major distributions, have decided to drop support for XMMS audio player (See: Considerations for ‘xmms’ removal from Debian). I was really badly surprised when I noticed that apparently dist-upgrading my Debian from Etch to Lenny, the new stable, the old XMMS package had disapeared! I can live with Debian dropping XMMS but I think that it’s a bit shameless to put an upgrade out that drops the already installed package from my system too! So I had to get it back…

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