Kaffeine Install
For: Mepis Linux
by: je.saist
For: Mepis Linux
by: je.saist
Like Amarok, Kaffeine is a popular media player for the Linux platform. While Kaffeine's music offerings are far less in-depth than Amarok, Kaffeine does support Video and DVD playback. It also, personally, is a better DVD player than KMPlayer. While Kaffeine has been included in previous Mepis Distributions it has been dropped from Mepis 6, presumably to save space on the CD release. Time to get Kaffeine back.
*note* This guide presumes that libmad0, libxine-extracodecs, w32codecs, and libdvdcss2 have been installed. Otherwise, Kaffeine will crash on use.
1: Open up Synaptic. Synaptic is on the desktop as the yellow box on the task bar with a 0 underneath.
2: Input your /root password. Left Click on Ok to continue.
3: Wait for Synaptic to load.
4: Left Click on Search
5: Hi little Search Box.
6: Type kaffeine into the Search field.
7: Left Click on Search
8: There we go. We have a couple of entries for Kaffeine.
9: Left Click on kaffeine to select the program.
10. Right Click to bring up the Context Menu
11: Left Click on Mark for Installation.
12: By default Kaffeine uses the xine engine. Other engines are available though.
13: Left Click on Mark to select kaffeine-xine
14: There we go. Both kaffeine and kaffeine-xine should now have yellow arrows pointing right.
15: We are not done yet. I want kaffeine to be my default media player for FireFox.
If you do not want this, skip to step #18
I'm going to Right Click on kaffeine-mozilla to bring up the Context Menu
16: Left Click on Mark for Installation
17: There we are, kaffeine-mozilla is now selected to be installed.
18: Left Click on Apply at the top of Synaptic.
19: Synaptic will ask for confirmation on the changes.
20: When ready, Left Click on Apply
21: Wait for Synaptic to finish installing the program.
22: Left Click on Close
23: Go ahead and Close Synaptic.
Alright, Kaffeine is installed. Now to open it up and use it on Part 2.