Ow Mun Heng wrote: > On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 16:25, Chuck_Sterling wrote: >> <FWIW> >> Last night I successfully installed mplayer on FC2, and want to post >> the list of rpms I installed to support this. Someone else might find >> the info useful. Most of the list was found on the Internet via a >> google search. I'm not sure that all were needed, but installed them >> all anyway. One rpm I needed was not listed there but was called out >> during the installation as a dependency. All were downloaded from >> freshrpms.org. > Hmm.. seems like you were not introduced to the wonders of apt. > > Its just a simple > > apt-get install mplayer > Much simpler. I could not get it to work, and also had trouble using yum. What I did was a kludge, but did the trick. Next time I will try to use one of the automatic methods. Thanks for the feedback. Chuck
