Don't fear, best way is compile this program and using it. When you compile in your computer. Its exactly mach your computer in whatever kind of linux version. You just need a C/C++ compiler in your linux version. Most of time you have it in default. If you have not it add it via add remove packages in administrative tools in main menu. To start the work you have to download 2 compressed file from http://xinehq.de/index.php/releases. You have to download one of xine-lib source code and xine-ui source code. xine-lib's file name is like this xine-lib-1.1.1.tar.gz .Xine-ui's file name is like xine-ui-0.99.4.tar.gz. Lib file is about 8Mb and ui file is about 3Mb. Here are the steps of doing the job
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Make folder named xine in /opt
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Extract xine-lib and xine-ui to desktop. There should be 2 folders in desktop now. (I'm using xine-lib-1.1.1 and xine-ui-0.99.4 here)
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Open a terminal and change directory in to xine-lib-1.1.1 folder with using cd /root/Desktop/xine-lib-1.1.1
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type ./configure --prefix=/opt/xine and hit enter.
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You'll see some info. When curser came back type make and hit enter. Now you will see lot of compiling info
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When curser came back again type make install and hit enter.
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When the cursor came back half of work is over. Now you can see some folders in /opt/xine
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Enter in to xine-ui-0.99.4 folder in the terminal by using cd /root/Desktop/xine-ui-0.99.4
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Type flowing two lines in terminal and hit enter [One by one]
export PATH=/opt/xine/bin:$PATH
export PATH=/opt/xine/lib:$PATH
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Now type ./configure --prefix=/opt/xine again and hit enter.
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Now type make and hit enter
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Now Type make install and hit enter.
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95% work is done now.
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Now type gedit /etc/profile.d/xine.sh and hit enter. Type following two lines in gedit window and save and close it.
export PATH=/opt/xine/bin:$PATH
export PATH=/opt/xine/lib:$PATH
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Almost all done now. Type xine and hit enter. If u have done all correctly you will see xine. If you fails try to restart machine and type xine and hit enter on Run window
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To install new skins, find a skin rpm and extract it. Then copy the skins folder and paste it to /opt/xine/share/xine/skins. Then you can have skins also.