On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 09:54:21PM -0400, ricardo wrote: > hello, I'm new in linux(fedora) , I treated to install mplayer , but this is what happend > [ricardo@200-93-108-244 ricardo]$ rpm i- mplayer-1.0pre2-3.i386.rpm The - goes _before_ the parameter, not after. And actually, I'd suggest using "-Uvh" instead of just "-i". And more than that, I'd suggest using apt or yum rather than RPM directly -- it'll take a lot of the headache out of it. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>