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Trying to install mplayer and mplayer gui
am running latest version of fedora4
I have managed to install
libmp3lame-3.96.1-4.i386.rpm
mplayer-font-iso1-1.1-1.noarch.rpm
mplayer-codecs-20050412-1.i386.rpm
mplayer-codecs-extra-20050412-1.i386.rpm
when I try to install the skin
mplayer-skin-default-3.4-1.noarch.rpm
I am told I cannot because it is dependent on mplayer
I have already loaded mplayer
mplayer-1.0pre7try2-2.i386.rpm
when I try to reload it the machine says it is already there
when I try to load the gui
mplayer-gui-1.0pre7try2-2.i386.rpm
I am told I need the default skin
i have tried to load the gui and default skin together thru the command line
I get
[bruce@localhost /]$ rpm -i mplayer-gui-a.rpm mplayer-skin-default-b.rpm
error: open of mplayer-gui-a.rpm failed: No such file or directory
error: open of mplayer-skin-default-b.rpm failed: No such file or directory
the two packages are on the desktop but the program cannot see them?
It won�t let me put them in the root folder either
I think I have some sort of referencing problem but am baffled
too many new things at once?
have no idea why the machine cannot see mplayer
the files are in the root directory at
/usr/bin
Originally posted by breezewax I've just compiled and installed mplayer and it seems to work fine from the command line. When I run "gmplayer", it appears to start loading, then fails with
Code:
vo: X11 running at 1024x768 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0" => local display)
[skin] file ( /usr/local/programs/mplayer/share/mplayer/Skin/default/skin ) not found.
Skin not found (default).
I'm wondering if installing mplayer-gui will fix this but I cannot for the life of me find a download link for it on mplayerhq.hu. Any help?
Did you install any mplayer skin? If not, you need to install either the default skin or a new skin when installing mplayer-gui.
using the desktop package installer I�m
trying to load mplayer-gui and mplayer-skin -default
mplayer-gui-2.0pre7try2-2.i386.rpm will not load because it is dependent on
mplayer-skin-default-3.4-1.noarch.rpm
mplayer-skin-default-3.4-1.noarch.rpm will not load because it is dependent on
mplayer-gui-2.0pre7try2-2.i386.rpm
so I seem to have circular dependency
when I try to resolve this by using the command line the computer cannot see the packages
[bruce@localhost ~]$ rpm -i myplayer-gui
error: open of myplayer-gui failed: No such file or directory
[bruce@localhost ~]$ rpm -i mplayer-skin-default
error: open of mplayer-skin-default failed: No such file or directory
the packages are still on the desktop do I need to move them or am I using the wrong reference?
If I can get the computer to see them I can use rpm to load them together
this seems to be a referencing problem but I don�t know how to resolve it
any suggestions?
no luck it tells me there is no such file
they are on my desktop, assume there is a referencing problem
but I don't know what
[bruce@localhost ~]$ rpm -Uvh mplayer-gui-1.0pre7try2-2.i386.rpm mplayer-skin-default-1.4-1.noarch.rpm
error: open of mplayer-gui-1.0pre7try2-2.i386.rpm failed: No such file or directory
error: open of mplayer-skin-default-1.4-1.noarch.rpm failed: No such file or directory
[bruce@localhost ~]$ cd /
[bruce@localhost /]$ rpm -Uvh mplayer-gui-1.0pre7try2-2.i386.rpm mplayer-skin-default-1.4-1.noarch.rpm
error: open of mplayer-gui-1.0pre7try2-2.i386.rpm failed: No such file or directory
error: open of mplayer-skin-default-1.4-1.noarch.rpm failed: No such file or directory
I am back.
I recently was endeavoring to install my first game on my FC4 OS'ed laptop. I thought Quake would be a good start. I hosed something and had to re-install the OS again.
I am here because the MPlayer I got to work in the last iteration will not load or play anything.
[bruce@localhost /]$ rpm -ev <mplayer rpms currently installed>
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'
[bruce@localhost /]$ rpm -e mplayer
error: Failed dependencies:
mplayer >= 1.0pre7 is needed by (installed) mplayer-codecs-20050412-1.i386
mplayer >= 0:1.0-0.lvn.0.1.pre2 is needed by (installed) mplayer-fonts-1.1-0.lvn.3.4.noarch
mplayer >= 1.0pre7 is needed by (installed) mplayer-codecs-extra-20050412-1.i386
mplayer is needed by (installed) mplayer-font-iso1-1.1-1.noarch
Originally posted by BCBruce I can't uninstal the dependencies because of a "transition lock"
You need to be root to manage packages.
Quote:
Ok I can't uninstall mplayer because of dependencies
Do "rpm -e mplayer mplayer-codecs mplayer-fonts mplayer-codecs-extra mplayer-font-iso1 ..." or whatever the dependencies are.
If you use Fedora Core, you can do "yum remove mplayer" and it will take care of dependencies. Similar tools also exist for other distros. Try not to mix packages from different distros and different repositories (I notice that you have a package from Livna, which is for Fedora Core; but other packages are not from Livna).
thank you
will get my new packages from mplayer.hu
still baffled about how to get the present programs off
no idea why it is not recognizing me as root
I'm definitely logged in as such??
How do you login as root? Do you just switch to root using su command or login as root before you enter Desktop environment? If you are using su, you use this one:
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