I am running OpenSuse 10.0 and trying desperately to install MPlayer. Yast keeps telling me about a version supposedly available on one of the install discs, but every time I try to finish and install, I get the message that the package cannot be found on the install medium.

I have long used a folder on the hard drive as an installation source, so I downloaded another MPlayer rpm and placed it where Yast could find it. This apparently made problems worse. MPlayer then started having failed dependencies, so I downloaded and installed those three packages.

After having done so, however, the same MPlayer rpm is failing numerous (fifty or so) dependencies, about half of which I've never heard of, and the other half I'm fairly certain I do have.

In short, I'm fed up and am having trouble locating any kind of binary package for suse. Can anyone point me to a binary package with no dependencies? Thanks.

-Patrick

MPlayer seems to have problems when it's not compiled on your specific machine. I know this is not the answer to your question, but you might want to try compiling the binary yourself. When the MPlayer binary compiled, it tends to hard code support for certain things it finds on the host system. To use someone elses binary, it would have to be compiled on a system almost identical to yours.

regards,
...drkstr