Linux, XMMS FLAC & SHN plugins help

[jaguaracer]

Anybody out there have some experience? Or know of anyone with some experience?
I'd like to be able to listen to my FLAC and SHN files through XMMS like I did with winamp.
Would it be possible for someone to just send (attach) me the .so files and for me to put them in my plug-ins folder? I am having issues finding/installing the input plug-ins.
Cheers,

[jazzbo]

What distribution of linux do you have? Some ship with packages for the xmms plugins (especially the flac one -- I know Debian does.)

I had to go to another site to get a shn plugin.

[4candles]

Originally Posted by jaguaracer

Anybody out there have some experience? Or know of anyone with some experience?
I'd like to be able to listen to my FLAC and SHN files through XMMS like I did with winamp.
Would it be possible for someone to just send (attach) me the .so files and for me to put them in my plug-ins folder? I am having issues finding/installing the input plug-ins.
Cheers,

What are your "finding/installing" issues?

If you have downloaded the source, but can't compile/install them, then you are probably missing the XMMS "development" package from your distribution. Or in the case of FLAC, maybe you are missing lbFLAC and/or the libFLAC development packages.

But as jazzbo says, your distribution may already include those plugins. In Debian, typing "apt-get install xmms-flac" will do the job.

[jaguaracer]

Thanks guys. I am using Ubuntu
I had to figure out how to install deb packages and once I did I was able to download the two packages for flac (I was missing libflac6) and install them fine.
I followed the instructions (better this time?) and was able to install the shn plug-in.
I am really liking linux.
I just have one more question with wine to be asnwered (its installed but I can't find the fake windows drive) and I am good to go.
Thanks again,