Okay I moved the tarball to my / uncompressed it again. can you see where I might be over looking the directory to install from?
# tar xvzf ogle-0.9.1-i586-1.tgz.gz
./
usr/
usr/bin/
usr/bin/ogle
usr/bin/ifo_dump
usr/doc/
usr/doc/ogle-0.9.1/
usr/doc/ogle-0.9.1/NEWS
usr/doc/ogle-0.9.1/README
usr/doc/ogle-0.9.1/AUTHORS
usr/doc/ogle-0.9.1/INSTALL
usr/doc/ogle-0.9.1/ChangeLog
usr/doc/ogle-0.9.1/COPYING
usr/lib/
usr/lib/ogle/
usr/lib/ogle/libdvdcontrol.a
usr/lib/ogle/ogle_ac3_p
usr/lib/ogle/ogle_audio
usr/lib/ogle/ogle_mpeg_ps
usr/lib/ogle/ogle_mpeg_vs
usr/lib/ogle/ogle_cli
usr/lib/ogle/ogle_nav
usr/lib/ogle/libmsgevents.a
usr/lib/ogle/libdvdcontrol.so.9.1.0
usr/lib/ogle/libmsgevents.la
usr/lib/ogle/libdvdcontrol.la
usr/lib/ogle/libmsgevents.so.6.1.0
usr/lib/ogle/ogle_ctrl
usr/lib/ogle/ogle_vout
usr/man/
usr/man/man1/
usr/man/man1/ogle.1.gz
usr/man/man5/
usr/man/man5/oglerc.5.gz
usr/share/
usr/share/ogle/
usr/share/ogle/oglerc
usr/share/ogle/ogle_conf.dtd
usr/include/
usr/include/ogle/
usr/include/ogle/dvd.h
usr/include/ogle/msgevents.h
usr/include/ogle/dvdbookmarks.h
usr/include/ogle/dvdevents.h
usr/include/ogle/dvdcontrol.h
install/
install/doinst.sh
install/slack-desc

try

sh /install/doinst.sh

Where did you get the download from?

Okay I did that and I get this? When I go to this directory /usr/lib/ogle it is there but it does not see it? I got these tarballs from the ogle website download area

http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/downloads.shtml

bash-2.05b# sh /install/doinst.sh
/install/doinst.sh: line 1: cd: usr/lib/ogle: No such file or directory
/install/doinst.sh: line 2: cd: usr/lib/ogle: No such file or directory
/install/doinst.sh: line 3: cd: usr/lib/ogle: No such file or directory
/install/doinst.sh: line 4: cd: usr/lib/ogle: No such file or directory
/install/doinst.sh: line 5: cd: usr/lib/ogle: No such file or directory
/install/doinst.sh: line 6: cd: usr/lib/ogle: No such file or directory
/install/doinst.sh: line 7: cd: usr/lib/ogle: No such file or directory
/install/doinst.sh: line 8: cd: usr/lib/ogle: No such file or directory

So have just totally whack my slack box now or what? I tried to do the sh /install/doinst.sh at my root and it does nothing.

My /usr/ib/ogle directory has this in it
bash-2.05b# ls
libdvdcontrol.a libdvdcontrol.so.9 libmsgevents.la libmsgevents.so.6.1.0 ogle_cli ogle_mpeg_vs
libdvdcontrol.la libdvdcontrol.so.9.1.0 libmsgevents.so ogle_ac3_p ogle_ctrl ogle_nav
libdvdcontrol.so libmsgevents.a libmsgevents.so.6 ogle_audio ogle_mpeg_ps ogle_vout

To step backwards a little, what does usr/doc/ogle-0.9.1/INSTALL say?

Still does not say where the directory is though? I guess I am gonna drop this now I have wasted my whole weekend here trying to get this to work. I guess I will go back to xine and try to get that to work I guess? Thank you for all your help. maybe my xine problem will be easier? I don't know

Installation
============

1. `cd' to the directory containing the package's source code.
Type `./configure' to configure the package for your system.

There are three package specific configure options.
--with-dvdread=path specify where libdvdread is installed
--with-libmlib=path specify where mediaLib is installed
--with-libjpeg=path specify where libjpeg is installed

You might need to use these if you have installed libdvdread,
mediaLib or libjpeg in a nonstandard location. Most users will not
need togive any of these options. Look at the output from configure
to see if it has found the library. Libdvdread and libjpeg are
required for correct operation so configure will issue an error if
it fails to find them. MediaLib on the other hand is optional and
so ogle will compile fine without it being present. MediaLib is
written and provided by Sun and is only available for the Solaris
operating system.

2. Type `make' to compile the package.

3. Type `make install' to install the programs and any data files and
documentation.

4. You can remove the program binaries and object files from the
source code directory by typing `make clean'. To also remove the
files that `configure' created (so you can compile the package for
a different kind of computer), type `make distclean'. There is
also a `make maintainer-clean' target, but that is intended mainly
for the package's developers. If you use it, you may have to get
all sorts of other programs in order to regenerate files that came
with the distribution.

For other information about configure or make see their respective
documentation.

When you untar a file, where does it normally create a directory? My guess is that the directory is (probably in /home/your_name. Or wherever the file was downloaded to. Do you have an /Ogle or /ogle-xxx directory in your home directory. Or whichever directory you downloaded the file to?

Well I did download them to my /root/ogle directory that I created. When I untared them all I got was the foledrs I told you about in one of my last posts and I tried going through each folder and doing a ./configure with no success. Right now i am installing Slackware on another drive and I am gonna try it all over again and see if I just had some corrupt file? I also tried to download the tar files directly to my / and untar them and I had the same result. When I get done installing slack on this other drive I will tell you what I find.

Thanks again for trying to help me figure this out.

Well, since this is so old, it probably won't do much good to post here...but oh well. That '.tgz' file you downloaded was a Slackware package, meaning it's already been compiled and you're not gonna find a configure script in there. What you probably want is the source, which normally has a 'tar.bz2' or 'tar.gz' extension. Maybe the reason the RPMs weren't working for you because you didn't have all of the requirements?
Go here: http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/downloads.shtml. There is a list of everything Ogle needs to work, plus some RPMs. If the RPM doesn't work, that page also has the source you can download, along with some quick, easy instructions.

Thanks that is some good stuff I have since switched over to debian and seem to be having no issues at the moment that and I have my freesco firewall working now which is fine

So thanks for the post though I am glad to see some one found a fix to this.

Well I'm glad everything is working for you now. You're welcome, and I'm sorry that it was no longer of any use.