HOWTO: Play WMA audio files using Beep Media Player

[Jonathan2007]

When I tried to install the bmp dev package using KPackage I got this error

<pt-get install --yes 'beep-media-player-dev' ;echo RESULT=$?
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  beep-media-player-dev: Depends: libgtk2.0-dev but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
RESULT=100

Anybody know what the problem could be? Thanks.

[FLeiXiuS]

When I tried to install the bmp dev package using KPackage I got this error

<pt-get install --yes 'beep-media-player-dev' ;echo RESULT=$?
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  beep-media-player-dev: Depends: libgtk2.0-dev but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
RESULT=100

Anybody know what the problem could be? Thanks.

This should be a huge clue

beep-media-player-dev: Depends: libgtk2.0-dev but it is not going to be installed

$ sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev --force-yes --y

[Jonathan2007]

Well I am not that stupid. I tried to just sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev but it said it depended on something else. And when I tried to apt-get that it said that it depended on something else. So I thought I had hit a dead end, I will try your suggestion to force it which is what I thought needed to happen but I didn't know the exact command. Thanks. I will post back.

EDIT: Just tried it and I got this E: Command line option --force is not understood. So what now? Thanks again for your help.

[FLeiXiuS]

Well I am not that stupid. I tried to just sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev but it said it depended on something else. And when I tried to apt-get that it said that it depended on something else. So I thought I had hit a dead end, I will try your suggestion to force it which is what I thought needed to happen but I didn't know the exact command. Thanks. I will post back.

EDIT: Just tried it and I got this E: Command line option --force is not understood. So what now? Thanks again for your help.

$ sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev --force-yes --y

[Jonathan2007]

When I try

sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev --force-yes --y

I get this

E: Command line option --y is not understood

??

[i3dmaster]

Great! Thanks for sharing!

[Jonathan2007]

When I try

sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev --force-yes --y

I get this

E: Command line option --y is not understood

??

No knows how to get this dev package installed? I really want BMP to be able to play wma's and I know I have the w32 codec package because Kaffeine can play the wma's fine.

[twowheeler]

Alternatively, you can convert the .rpm and avoid the build.

wget http://mcmcc.bat.ru/xmms-wma/xmms-wma-1.0.4-1.i386.rpm
sudo alien --to-deb xmms-wma-1.0.4-1.i386.rpm
sudo dpkg -i xmms-wma_1.0.4-2_i386.deb

cheers.

[empathy]

Nice work Darrena! Exactly what I was searching for. Man, I love this ubuntu community - the level of commitment ot helping others is priceless.... literally. big ups yoself

[Darrena]

Nice work Darrena! Exactly what I was searching for. Man, I love this ubuntu community - the level of commitment ot helping others is priceless.... literally. big ups yoself

Glad you liked it! I am going to write a more detailed HOWTO to use Beep to play all your audio formats soon.