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07-15-2003, 09:41 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jul 2003
Location: Michigan USA
Distribution: redhat9/mandrake9
Posts: 3
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Installing a video player
I have tried everything under the sun to try and install some sort of media player. I was told to install YUM and it would install the downloaded RPMS and install the software. YUM installed fine but when I go to install Mplayer it starts out preparing to install then it a error window pops up saying that there is a unlocatable package. the package is mplayer-common. I found a RPM with that wording and downloaded it but to no avail. Does anyone have a clue on what I am doing wrong. I'm at my wits end and DO NOT want to go back to windows.
Any help would be appreciated
Sorry I'm using Redhat 9 at the moment
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07-15-2003, 09:59 PM
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Member
Registered: Apr 2003
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Distribution: Slackware, Gentoo
Posts: 397
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mplayer has to deal with some dependencies....
I'd suggest you to get Red-Carpet or Synaptic.
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07-15-2003, 10:24 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 6,042
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Compile the programs instead of using RPM files.
To compile
1) Untar or un-compress the file in to a directory. You can use file roller, ark, gnome archive if you want to use GUI. You can extract it in /tmp.
2) ./configure
3) make
4) Login as su and make install.
Though you need to have a copy of your kernel source code and a compiler to compile programs. Use the package installer and find kernel source code and compiler.
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07-17-2003, 06:25 AM
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Member
Registered: Sep 2002
Posts: 184
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what you can do is to use apt to manage your packages
download apt for your distrib, then install it then update the package list (apt-get update) then install mplayer (apt-get install mplayer), it will take care of the dependencies and will do so for any app that you will install with it
apt is a maravellous app
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07-17-2003, 06:34 AM
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Member
Registered: Apr 2003
Location: Ontario, Canada
Distribution: Arch Linux
Posts: 533
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use kickstart, it has mplayer and mozilla-mplayer plugin in its repositories, it is the best version of apt I have found for rh9 - makes everything very easy!
it's on my main page of my guide, link below
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07-18-2003, 07:54 AM
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Member
Registered: Dec 2001
Location: /mnt/UNV/Mlkway/Earth/USA/California/Silicon Valley
Distribution: Kubuntu, Debian Buster Stable, Windoze 7
Posts: 684
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another possibility
Try VLC (video lan client)
http://www.videolan.org/
It's an amazing thing on linux and on windows, plays every conceiveable video format: (remember to download all the plugins from the site)
divx
divx XVID
divx Ac3 (sound)
VCD
DVD
MPEG
Check it out, maybe it will make you as happy as me.
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07-18-2003, 08:45 AM
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Member
Registered: Aug 2002
Location: Alexandria
Distribution: ubuntu 12.04.2
Posts: 217
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I'd also suggest xine available xine.sf.net That's my favorite media player, but it's a royal pain to compile/install
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