On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 18:28:13 -0500, nix4me <nix4me@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jim wrote: > > >On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 00:01:24 +0100, Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > >>Am So, den 02.01.2005 schrieb Jim um 23:49: > >> > >> > >> > >>>>>Use the command: gmplayer > >>>>> > >>>>>error report...................snip > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>Checking for GUI ... yes > >>>> > >>>>Error: X11 support required for GUI compilation > >>>> > >>>>Check "configure.log" if you do not understand why it failed. > >>>> > >>>> > >>xorg-x11-devel is missing for compilation. > >> > >> > >> > >>>>[root@localhost MPlayer-1.0pre6a]# > >>>> > >>>>i tried that cmd gmplayer > >>>>[root@localhost MPlayer-1.0pre6a]# gmplayer > >>>>bash: gmplayer: command not found > >>>> > >>>> > >>Can't be found if mplayer is not installed / compiled with GUI support. > >> > >>Do yourself and us a favour and use a Fedora RPM, i.e. by freshrpms.net. > >> > >> > >> > >>>James Lawrence > >>> > >>> > >>Alexander > >> > >>-- > >>Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | new address - new key: 0xB366A773 > >>legal statement: http://www.uni-x.org/legal.html > >>Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 (Tettnang) on Athlon kernel 2.6.9-1.6_FC2smp > >>Serendipity 23:59:14 up 11 days, 1:43, load average: 0.35, 0.47, 0.38 > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >if i try to install the mplayer from freshrpms, ( i have tried) it > >fails dependancies > >8 of them > >libaa.so.1 > >libdvdread.so.3 > >libfaad.so.0 > >liblzo.so.1 > >libmad.so.0 > >libpostproc.so.0 > >libpostproc > >libxvidcore.so.4 > > > > > > > > > This is why all Fedora users should use Apt-Get. Google it and install > and setup a 3rd party repository. Then all it takes is: apt-get install > mplayer. And it will get the mplayer package and all its dependancies. > > Mark > I have tried apt-get and tt is no match for dependency messes created by installing packages from ATrpms. "smart" is better at resolving dependency issues because it can downgrade a package fix a dependency problem.