mplayer not found on apt-get
Okay... so we all know MPLAYER is the best player for playing windows files.... but it's the hugest hassle ever known.
You gotta get the skins, the dll... got to compile it, this that, yadda yadda. When I used redhat 9 -- I went to freshrpms.net and got the apt-get for redhat, and did apt-get install mplayer, boom, no frills, instant install So now I'm a debian user... root@UBER-term:/home/jon# apt-get install mplayer Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Couldn't find package mplayer root@UBER-term:/home/jon# Not found... yes I did apt-get update So... I went to the next available easy out.... mplayer-0.91-1.i386.rpm mplayer-common-0.91-1.i386.rpm -- so I type rpm in my konsole -- root@UBER-term:/home/jon# rpm -ivh mplayer-common-0.91-1.i386.rpm error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - No such file or directory (2) error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm root@UBER-term:/home/jon# Damnit... so am I screwed at doing it the hard way? Any suggestions? Thanks!:cry: |
You mean the best way? Looks like it ;)
It's not that bad, really. You install the win32 codecs, install RealPlayer, then install the mplayer source, using controls that make it run better, and bam! You have a better player! Who'd have thought you could make great even better? :D Cool |
Re: mplayer not found on apt-get
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02:58 AM Tue Sep 02: stephen @ ~] |
....and if it isn't found on apt-get then you'll probably have to update your repository list to have more packages available to you..
/etc/apt/sources.list is the file i am referring to.. |
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