I donloaded an rpm for Mplayer and then I followed the instructions for getting a GUI and placing it in the appropriate directory but I can't figure out how to execute MPlayer with the GUI.

I'm new in Linux and this install process seems rather elaborate in comparison to the good old point and click stuff in winXP! Any help would be great.

Thanks

Try gmplayer. If you got everything in the right directorys you should have a gui with no error msgs.

go to command line and

gmplayer command opens up a gui for mplayer...

If you want to play a media file via command line

If you want a shortcut (for your desktop) you could do that do too...let me know what desktop environment you are using and we can go from there.

EDIT: I am too slow...Boow beat me

Hey

The shell claims that it can't find the command gmplayer. Should I have compiled MPlayer from the source? This is apparently better than using an rpm. I'm using KDE.

The command line version seems to work well so far!

gmplayer is just a symlink to mplayer you might be able to create the link. if the gui is enabled it should work if not its a badly built rpm.

Since mplayer command works, gmplayer should also be in your path. Just to check if you at all have gmplayer. Installing mplayer from source is what I do but it may be a little challenging and overwhelming (if you are used to windows way). If you want to give it a shot jump right in and download the source from mplayer site.

What distro are you using??? It's always a good idea to include distro whenever you post a question or better yet, include it in your profile...

Tux,

locate gmplayer returns nothing and I'm using FC4. I got the source for MPlayer but should I remove the previous installation before compiling the source? Apparently I have a problem with my gcc being to old but I used up2date gcc and I'm told that the packages are already up to date. Oh ya, and there's a GTK package I need. I'm not to sure about these dependencies. Are familiar with that stuff?

thanks

May be its a bad rpm without a gui for mplayer. Yes, its a good idea to remove old rpm install. What gcc version are you using...

It's gcc 4. By the way, how do I remove the rpm. Sorry, but I'm used to add/remove programs.

thanks

Thats the latest gcc you have. You can remove rpm by the following commands

This will query all the rpms installed on your system for the name "mplayer". After you get the name...it would be something like this
mplayer-xx.xx.i386

rpm -e will remove rpm.

you should also refer man (manual) pages that come with every distro for help on commands.

Note that you would have to be root (superuser) to remove rpm.
Tux,

Thanks that worked fine. I've found some useful sites on setting up MPlayer. Wish me luck. Thanks for the posts. If there's anything else you think I should know I'll be happy to read about it!

When you get the source...untar and unzip it. You would find INSTALL & README files. Read the files and follow them...you would not have major problems. If you have problems, come back here.

I've written a short how-to on compiling mplayer from source. it is
here

Tux,

Thanks for the link. I used ./ configure as you suggested but I added --disable-gcc-checking because it wouldn't run unless I did so. After using make the following showed up on the screen `-mcpu=' is deprecated. Use `-mtune=' or '-march=' instead. I don't know if this matters. I tried typing mplayer at the prompt after typing make install and the command wasn't found. Did I do something wrong. I followed your instructions word for for except for the --disable-gcc-checking part. I found a site where someone claimed that using this option didn't bother the installation at all. I don't know if this thing will ever work!!!! Thorney's getting a little sad here!!!!

I'll be back in here tomorrow. If anyone knows what my prob. is please post something.

Thanks