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08-13-2003, 12:11 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Aug 2003
Location: Troy, NY
Distribution: Red Hat 9
Posts: 8
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Installing MPlayer Help
I'm trying to install mplayer on red hat 9
Although i'm a newb, I've been over the installation docs several times, tried installing the RPM's but the two packages i wanted to install hang and say they are depentant on the other one.
Then i tried doing it without the rpms -
I unzipped the tarball and did a ./configure --enable-gui
It went pretty far down on the install and hung saying it needed the libpng and libpng-devel. So i download the RPMs for png and png-devel package, installed them but still get the same message.
I greatly appreciate your help.
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08-13-2003, 02:53 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Dec 2002
Location: Atlantic City, NJ
Distribution: Ubuntu & Arch
Posts: 3,503
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Well I ran into this same issue with MPlayer as well. I did have all the png packages installed but nothing seemed to work.
Do yourself a favor, download apt-get for RedHat 9.0. Install the package(s)(rpm -Uvh apt*) then do:
apt-get update
apt-get install mplayer
You will be amazed at how well it works.
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08-13-2003, 03:10 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Aug 2003
Location: Troy, NY
Distribution: Red Hat 9
Posts: 8
Original Poster
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Thanks
Thanks a lot, i ran the apt-get and it did everything for me. Very nice. Now i gots to figure out how to work mplayer. Time to do some reading. One last question, will the player be more efficient if i compiled it on my machine?
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08-13-2003, 03:34 PM
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Moderator
Registered: Jun 2001
Location: UK
Distribution: Gentoo, RHEL, Fedora, Centos
Posts: 43,417
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yes, but really only in theory though, if the precompiled one is for i686 anyway
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08-13-2003, 04:52 PM
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Member
Registered: Nov 2001
Location: Exeter, UK
Distribution: Gentoo 1.4
Posts: 243
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You could of just forced one package to install so the other had its dependance. If they were truly dependant or each other.
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