Can,t I just get Mplayer to work?
 

Hi there

This is titled How can get mplayer with all of its dependencies?
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Since I have installed Reddhat I haven,t played a single video(mpeg,avi, divx ) file.I then downloaded the mplayer from psyche.freshrpms.net,burned it and took it home(where I don,t have internet to use the apt-get program).

When I got home ,I tried to install it and it wanted the depencies amongs them was libdvdread and other stuff.
Now the following I went back to freshrpms.net and downloaded literaly every library from the library section.

And also dowloaded other packages like Alsa and all of its librabries .Then went back home and installed of those libraries before trying to install mplayer.WHen trying to install alsa lib it old it wants lipthread.so module.

Thats cool because i know the name but I can,t get the module evrywhere I looked including google.com.

So my question is (to All Linux enthusiats)..Is there a place where I can just download mplayer and its whole bunch of dependencies?

I would to think that its not fair for us who do not have the internet and would love to watch those divx encoded videos or nay other video file for that matter.

I would gladly appreciate if I can just download mplayer and its HUGE dependencies..

I got slack 9.0 and I installed mplayer without any problems. Ive just downloaded the latest version from its home page http://www.mplayerhq.hu/
i even don't installed any codecs and I user very very very slow machine. everything work. god bless linux :)

p.s. I have problems playing avi, divx files under windows, the hotfix was Linux ;P

If you can use synaptic (GUI for apt-get), just download all the rpm necessaries and install them, i think there's an option for only download the pakages.

Hope it helps

these will automate all your dependency handling and stuff... letting you install packages without experiencing "dependancy hell":

http://apt4rpm.sourceforge.net/

http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/


a nice gui for apt:

http://www.nongnu.org/synaptic/


mandrake linux comes with urpmi, which is pretty cool too (doing a "urpmi mplayer" will download and install it and it's dependancies automatically, for example - plus you get several guis):

http://www.linux-mandrake.com/cooker/urpmi.html

http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/urpmi.php3

Your supposed to install the mplayer-common, gui, and default skin on one line like this with the RPMs to avoid dependency problems:

rpm -Uvh mplayer-common-0.90rc3-1.i386.rpm mplayer-gui-0.90rc3-1.i386.rpm mplayer-skin-default-1.6-3.noarch.rpm

This should work just go here and download these 3 files

http://ftp.falsehope.com/home/rathann/mplayer/

theres also really cool skins...

What happens when I try to install ALSA lib and I get an error saying :Failed dependencies lipthread.so needed by alsa lib

,At home I don,t have the internet to use the synaptic.

I'll dowload everything to do with mplayer

thnx for the help.

hello
i also face hard time for mplayer, but finaly its working and i post my final steps for others.
you just remove urs old installation by make clean of mplayer and its other related codec etc. and follow steps , i am sure it will work.


http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...257#post435257

Regards

you need to install glibc from your distro. Search your RedHat disks for glibc and install that. lipthread.so is part of glibc. After that you should be ok. Don't worry about alsa, use that as a last resort.