hi,all!

firstly, mplayer works fine, but after i "removepkged gxine" mplayer doesn't work anymore, i am not sure if the "removepkg gxine" caused this problem, run mplayer in command , get output as follow:

mplayer: error while loading shared libraries: libaudiofile.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

i tried to reinstall gxine, mplayer didn't work too

Can anyone help me fix it ?

This command will not make alot of sense but, try it:
I will explain if it works.

@wubai
Check to see if you have the audiofile package installed. If you don't install it, if you do, reinstall it, it's probably a broken symlink.

@smeezekitty
You're right, it doesn't make any sense at all to try that.

@smeezekitty:
thank you for your reponse firt !
Are you sure it won't cause any other worst problem by doing this "sudo cp /usr/lib/lib*.so.* /usr/lib/libaudiofile.so.0" ?

$ ls -l /usr/lib/lib*.so.*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2009-12-18 22:54 /usr/lib/libAMDXvBA.so.1 -> libAMDXvBA.so.1.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.7M 2009-12-18 22:54 /usr/lib/libAMDXvBA.so.1.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12K 2009-12-18 22:54 /usr/lib/libfglrx_dm.so.1.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2009-12-18 22:54 /usr/lib/libfglrx_gamma.so.1 -> libfglrx_gamma.so.1.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11K 2009-12-18 22:54 /usr/lib/libfglrx_gamma.so.1.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2009-12-18 22:54 /usr/lib/libfglrx_tvout.so.1 -> libfglrx_tvout.so.1.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6.2K 2009-12-18 22:54 /usr/lib/libfglrx_tvout.so.1.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2009-12-18 22:54 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 -> /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 557K 2009-12-18 22:54 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2009-12-18 22:54 /usr/lib/libXvBAW.so.1 -> libXvBAW.so.1.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9.9K 2009-12-18 22:54 /usr/lib/libXvBAW.so.1.0

I do not understand that command, it seems copy many things to only one, I am not sure what would happen, i'm sorry i am not very good at it , can you explain that command first?

Anyway, i've tried what you said, got outputs like this: "cp: target “/usr/lib/libaudiofile.so.0” is not a directory"
and mplayer still doesn't work .

any more sugguestions ?

Maybe that lib got messed up or deleted when you removed gxine.

Can you try:
What do you get? Mine is:

hey guys ! first of all, thank you all for your help, and, i fix my problem

I read some more info about slackware , then checked /var/log/removed_packages, and know what i did to removed the audiofile,i found it located /var/log/mount/slackware64/slackware64-13/slackware64/l/audiofile-0.2.6-x86_64-2.txz and reinstalled , then problem gone.
i guess i removed audiofile when i removed audacious that i thought I just don't need more than one music player

thanks again ! hope it'll help for some newbie to sl like me.

Regards !
wubai

Install audiofile from the l/ package tree, navigate to the /slackware64/l/ directory on your install media and as root This will have to be modified if you are not running the 64 bit version. The other command that you can use, which is probably better is samac

if u got time , i would like to know why the next one would be better if i am not running the 64 virsion ? , thanks !

and, i got a new problem, everytime i use mplayer opened a rm file, this cames out: "ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec drvc.bundle/Contents/MacOS/drvc" , i googled and downloaded essential-amd64-20071007.tar.bz2 , and extracted it and copied "cook.so drvc.so README sipr.so" in /usr/lib64/codecs, and Ctrl+Alt+Backspace reboot the X, this problem is still there, wondering it might need to reboot the machine to effect, or what? i rebooted too much, i'll try later

xine cant play rm file too, there is just only audio,prompted that unsupport ,kind of lack of codecs

Regards!
wubai

Sorry I did not make myself clear, upgradepkg can be better to use if a package has already been installed. You should only use the x86_64 with 64 bit systems otherwise you would use the i486.

samac

You must be running another version of cp.
The reason is may work is all it needs is a working ELF header, if it cannot find the procedure it wants most programs will ignore it.
And BTW i did it on my own system and it worked correctly.

Could you possibly explain what this gibberish means. The original poster has a problem that needs to be explained clearly.

samac

anyone reading this, DO NOT try the given command! it will copy all of the files that match lib*.so.* (ie, many files) to libaudiofile.so.0 (ie, one file). meaning, it will erase all but one of the many, many system files that match the pattern. it's a good way to screw up your system.

Actually no, it will not do that. When copying multiple files, "cp" wants the final argument to be a directory. Because libaudiofile.so.0 is a file, the shell will complain about this "libaudiofile.so.0 is not a directory" so you realize that in fact it is there. If the libaudiofile.so.0 were absent, you would get a different error stating that "libaudiofile.so.0 could not be found".

A very round-about and shady way of finding out whether a file exists if you ask me.

Eric

yeah i realized that after i posted, then my internet went out. doh!

my warning would apply, i believe, if the command was mv instead of cp.

Well, it was not mv.
HUH? somthing wrong, it was suppose to say ELF and not WTF.