[vox-tech] Mplayer

[Matt Holland]

John,

The easiest way is probably to get a RH 9.0 rpm from freshrpms.net (the 
website is sometimes down in protest to software patents, but 
ftp.freshrpms.net always seems to be available).

As for the 7.x rpm, my guess is that there's a good chance it will 
work, but RH has had a bad habit lately of changing the way they 
package things (i.e., something that used to be one big package may now 
be a few little ones), which *might* mean that some dependencies are 
unmet, possibly without rpm knowing (unlikely IMO).

However, you're not gonna screw anything up if you just do a

# rpm -ivh mplayer-<version>.rpm

You might get errors about unmet dependencies, in which case you'd want 
to track down the proper (9.0) rpms from your CDs, redhat ftp, etc.  
There's very little chance of ever screwing anything up unless you 
start telling rpm to ignore dependencies.

If you find yourself with a non-working mplayer installed, just do

# rpm -e mplayer

Good luck, and have no fear,
Matt

On Thursday, September 25, 2003, at 11:16 PM, John Marcotte wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I finally found a machine that I can devote to Linux. My laptop (which
> was loaded with Windows XP Home edtion, which bites.)
>
> I have gotten the laptop to do most reasonable things I ask it to thus
> far, including wireless networking. Easy as pie.
>
> But I can't play most video formats. I tried to install Xine, no luck.
>
> A friend (cough, Bill, cough) suggested that I try mplayer.
>
> I am running Redhat 9.0. Mplayer has an RPM for RH 7.x. I am enough of 
> a
> newbie that I was unsure if this would present problems.
>
> There also seem to be numerous dependencies as I read the install docs
> for the generic binaries.
>
> Can anyone help me out a little with install advice? It seems pretty
> complex and I don't want to screw anything up by doing something
> foolish.
>
> John
>
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Matt Holland
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