In reply to Erik's question about rpms: rpms just always tend to screw up on my system! I agree they are probably easier in that you don't need to type as much, but I would be less comfortable if I ran into problems during rpm installation than during a build from source. It's just that I know roughly what's going on in the latter. AP --- Erik Espinoza <erik.espinoza@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
