[PlanetCCRMA] mplayer install...

[Shayne O'Connor]

Mark Knecht wrote:

>>you'll probably want to remove *all* installed mplayer packages first
>>(looks like you have mplayer-fonts from freshrpms - ? -  installed).
>>
>>then remove everything but greysector repository, "apt-get update", and
>>repeat the apt-get command to get mplayer packages.
>>
>>shayne
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>Yeah, I've tried that a couple of times:
>
>[mark@Godzilla mark]$ su -
>Password:
>[root@Godzilla root]# rpm -qa | grep mplayer
>mplayer-1.0pre5-2
>mplayer-common-1.0pre5-2
>mplayer-gui-1.0pre5-2
>mplayer-skin-Abyss-1.1-1
>[root@Godzilla root]# rpm -e mplayer-1.0pre5-2
>mplayer-common-1.0pre5-2 mplayer-gui-1.0pre5-2
>mplayer-skin-Abyss-1.1-1
>[root@Godzilla root]# rpm -qa | grep mplayer 
>[root@Godzilla root]#
>
>Then certain parts aren't found:
>
>[root@Godzilla root]# apt-get install mplayer mplayerplug-in
>mplayer-gui mplayer-skins mplayer-fonts
>Reading Package Lists... Done
>Building Dependency Tree... Done
>E: Couldn't find package mplayerplug-in
>[root@Godzilla root]#
>but eventually I get down to this:
>
>[root@Godzilla root]# apt-get install mplayer mplayer-gui
>Reading Package Lists... Done
>Building Dependency Tree... Done
>The following extra packages will be installed:
>  mplayer-common mplayer-skin-Abyss
>The following NEW packages will be installed:
>  mplayer mplayer-common mplayer-gui mplayer-skin-Abyss
>0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 removed and 11 not upgraded.
>Need to get 0B/6381kB of archives.
>After unpacking 16.6MB of additional disk space will be used.
>Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
>Committing changes...
>Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
>   1:mplayer-skin-Abyss     ########################################### [ 25%]
>   2:mplayer-gui            ########################################### [ 50%]
>   3:mplayer-common         ########################################### [ 75%]
>   4:mplayer                ########################################### [100%]
>Done.
>[root@Godzilla root]#
>
>At this point mplayer is installed and works from the command line,
>which is cool, but I don't know how to get a gui for my wife.
>
>This is all reminding me why I went to Gentoo. I've now spent hours
>doing this and don't have much to show for it. All goes to show how
>important what Fernando does.
>
>  
>
you should really use synaptic, if you don't already - it makes apt a
*whole* lot less confusing.

try typing "gmplayer" rather than just "mplayer" at the command line ...
that is the gui for mplayer, and seeing as you've got skin packages
installed, it should work ... if it doesn't, then this is the package
you'll need:

http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/1498508/com/mplayer-gui-1.0-0.lvn.0.15.pre5.2.i386.rpm.html

but, to use that, as i said - you'd have to uninstall *all* currently
installed mplayer packages, then add rpmlivna and fedora us to your
repository list and remove all other repositories, do an "apt-get
update" (or hit the refresh button in synaptic), then choose all the
mplayer packages and install.

once you've done that, you can get rid of rpm livna and fedora us (this
is the only package i've found them useful for) and restore your normal
apt configuration...

better yet - if you've got all the depending packages, then just go to
the mplayer website and compile it yourself ... takes a while to compile
mplayer, but it worked fine for me..

shayne