Just out of curiousity, whats wrong with the rpms in your opinion? My installation of the same software was as follows: wget http://www.fedorafaq.org/samples/yum.conf ; cat yum.conf > /etc/yum.conf ; yum -y install mplayer And it works just dandy. I noticed that in your example, you didn't even optimize for your architecture which is the main reason people build from source. Now don't get me wrong, I'm a strong believer of the source, but packages are the way to go whenever possible unless you want to do optimization masturbation that is gentoo. On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 23:30:41 +0100 (BST), Art Ped <cerenkov_fc2@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 15:47, Calvin wrote: > > > I am having trouble installing mplayer!! they make > > it seem so easy! > > > any eay way to do it? > > > > > I agree it sounds very difficult! I actually just > installed it today on FC2 and it was easier than I > thought. I am a complete newbie. Taking shortcuts may > lead to problems - I recommend AVOIDING the rpms for > Fedora. > > Go to the mplayer website, go to their download > section and get the first file you see on the list > MPlayer-1.0preblablabla.tar.tar or something like > that. I assume you want to have a user-friendly GUI > interface (like winamp) so I advise getting a skin > also. You should download the win32essential codecs as > well. > > I couldn't unzip the MPlayer{version}.tar.tar file so > I renamed it .tar.bz2 (yes, it's cheating but it > works) and then went to terminal and typed > > tar -xvjf MPlayer-1.0pre4.tar.bz2 > > Before you do anything make sure you have libpng and > GTK devel packages installed (Go to System Settings, > Add/Remove applications and make sure you have the X > Software and Gnome development options checked). > > unzip the win32 codecs and copy all the files (usually > mostly dll files) to /usr/local/lib/codecs/ > > now using terminal go to the new MPlayer-1.0pre5 > directory the original unzipping created, and type > > ../configure --enable-gui > make > > and under root (type su and then the password), > > make install > > THe last step is to unzip your skin package, and copy > the folder to /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin/ > > Rename the skin folder to "default" > > Then in terminal just type > > gmplayer > > and it should start up fine. If you get an error > message about a true-type font, ignore it, right click > on the player, go to Preferences, go to the Font tab > and click Browse. Go to /usr/share/fonts and just pick > a ttf file (I went to the Openoffice directory). Click > OK and you have a functional mplayer! > > Any problems don't hesitate to write back. > I hope I've included everything and explained it well. > > Art > > ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
