either you've never heard the war stories about compiling mplayer, or your intestinal fortitude is far greater than most mortals =] your best bet is to go over to www.freshrpms.net and install their mplayer rpm. steps you should take: download and install his apt package on the command line, type apt-get update apt-get install mplayer and once that's done, you've got mplayer happiness. also, to search through the packages now available to you, use apt-cache apt-cache search [keyword] so, i want to see what games i can install apt-cache search games also, you may want to install the gui apt client, synaptic apt-get install synaptic there will be a menu option added under system tools after it has completed. oh, and you can do an apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade and that'll upgrade everything on your system. -d > Hi, > > I build mplayer form source ( 1.0pretry2 ) and I have > problems with its gui. When i do gmplayer &, all I got > ia a blank window and another small window which says > "Error". No amount of clicking will get them to do > anything and I could not even close them. On the > terminal, it shows gmplayer's status as "stopped". > > But I can use mplayer on command line to play mp3 and > avi and mov file. > > Does anyone know how to resolve the issuse ? > > I am using FC1 with kernel 2.6.1 and kde 3.2.1. > > Thanks, > > Xiaohu > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -+(duncan brown -+(duncanbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -+(http://www.linuxadvocate.net Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. -- George Eliot
