I started the long process of installing Mplayer a few hours ago only because I want to hear stream audio from WMP files, and for no other reason. I hear Mplayer has a Mozilla plugin that lets me do this. I have Mandrake 9.1 intalled on my computer.

So this is what I downloaded from the Mplayer homepage:

M-player-1.Opre3.tar.bz2
font-arial-iso-8859-1.tar.bz2
Blue-1.1.tar.bz2

I extracted the files, and in the console i went to the mplayer-basic directory and, AS USER, I typed:

./configure --enable-gui

everything was fine for while, until I got the following error message:

Error: PNG support required for GUI compilation, please install libpng and libpng-dev packages.

I am a fairly new user to Linux and I have no idea where to go to get these files. Can anyone help me out with this and the rest of the installation problems soon to come. I hear installing Mplayer is a real B!@#h.

BTW, I was using gcc 3.2.2, whick I think is fine...

Franke

PNG support is needed for the GUI as its image format. Do a search on libpng as I do believe their project page is hosted on http://freshmeat.net

Thanks for the help, I went to freshmeat.org and did a search for libpgn. I installed it along with another pakage zlib for extraction of the first. So I installed both, went back to the
the console and went to the mplayer-basic directory and typed:

./configure --enable-gui

again, this time it gave me this error:

Error: The GUI requires GTK devel packages (which were not found).

I did searches for GTK devel in freshmeat but I came up with nothing, then I searched it in Google and found a list of programs, but none of them seemed to be made for Mandrake 9.1. Does it matter which one I get? Do you know here I can go to get this.

Many thanks,

Franke

http://www.gtk.org/ official site for Gtk.

would those developmental packages be available on your mandrake disk? It might be worth checking add/remove programs(something like that), it would be the easiest way of installing them.

Thanks, after doing some more digging I got the packages I needed for GTK. So I ran the "./configure --enable GUI" command again and this time it ran with no problems.

Now, the prompt tells me to type make to compile mplayer and make install to install it. The first process, that compiles mplayer takes some time, 10 minutes on my computes. But at the very end it gives me another error message:

gtf.c:139: stray '\' in program
gtf.c:271:36: warning: multi-line string literals are deprecated
gtf.c:139: stray '\' in program
gtf.c:275:36: warning: multi-line string literals are deprecated
gtf.c:139: stray '\' in program
gtf.c:277:34: warning: multi-line string literals are deprecated
gtf.c:277:34: missing terminating " character
gtf.c:139:3: possible start of unterminated string literal
make[1]: *** [gtf.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/fasturias/mplayer/MPlayer-1.0pre3/libvo'
make: *** [libvo/libvo.a] Error 2


I don know were to go from here, I need help. I'm I typing "make" and compiling the mplayer in the wrong directory. I downloaded it and extracted the .bz2 pakage in my home directory. After configuring mplayer, should I go to another directory and compile it there? Maybe I can solve my own question if I try it myself? Any hints or comments woud be welcome.

Franke

Are you trying to compile from your /home directory? The default compile directory is /usr/local/src. That could be part of your problem.

You can compile mplayer from any directory you extract it to.

The error your receiving frankydukes seems to be a problem with one of the files downloaded packaged with mplayer. Maybe a bad download, I'm not sure. What happened to the next download when attempting to compile now?