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unistall corrupted mplayer

would like to install mplayer afresh from the command line and remove the corrupted existing one.I think i tried to alter the codecs path in the configure script but even after undoing the changes i still could not get the player running.

You will get help quicker if you let us know which Linux distribution you are using and how you installed mplayer.

hi redazz!am using UBUNTU 6.06 LTS.I installed via ./configure and then make and make install.

On Ubuntu you should have used apt-get/Synaptic/aptitude for that. However, if it's a source-code built mplayer, you can just read the INSTALL and README files for instructions on removal; usually there's a make target like

Code:

make uninstall

but the doc files will say if there is.

EDIT: if you had read INSTALL and README before doing anything, as you really should have, you would not have needed to ask. This implies you didn't read those files; read them. It's really a lot easier if you understand what you're doing.