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.

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.

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?

yes, but really only in theory though, if the precompiled one is for i686 anyway

You could of just forced one package to install so the other had its dependance. If they were truly dependant or each other.