have downloaded mplayer.
mplayer has said it needs libmp3lame.so to install so i have downloaded the lame package and ran ;
./configure , make and make install which i think makes all the files needed by the targets below.
how do i install the libmp3lame.so target now?

an edited clip from the INSTALL file;
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Compile time options
=========================================
There are several targets which can be built from this
source code:

lame, lame.exe The command line encoder;

mp3x
lame_enc.dll
lame.acm
lame_enc.dshow
libmp3lame.a
libmp3lame.so
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"make install" should install libmp3lame, as lame afaik cannot run without it.

You may need to tell the mplayer ./configure script where libmp3lame is.

HTH,

Samsara
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you are right, it installed libmp3lame.a which all the others depend on, but i need
libmp3lame.so which was not installed. i need to know how to do this(?)
as stated above already, i did type './configure', 'make', and 'make install' .