I am new to linux and running slack 9. I have tried installing mplayer from source but it fails when I try "make" after running "./configure"
It finds my libs and all that, but tells me to check my /proc/mtrr in the documentation section. When I check that I find them to be OK I think (but the documentation is terrible).

So I tried to install using "installpkg" but it just says:
"Description: "
And the rest is blank. A few seconds later it just returns to prompt without doing anything.

GRRRRR!!
This has been frusterating me for hours!

Any help much appreciated.

my first install of MPlayer 1.0pre1 did that to me. i just redownloaded it and it installed fine. try getting the CVS of it. that works too.

My suggestion would be to try the
multimedia-lib pakcages from
http://www3.linuxpackages.net/packag...ltimedia-libs/
and the MPlayer package from the same guy.
http://www3.linuxpackages.net/packag...obert/mplayer/

Worked fine for our boy (I installed from
source on 8.1) ...

Cheers,
Tink

Thanks!

I am using that exact package, but when i run:
installpkg mplayer-0.91-rob etc.
it just returns me to prompt after a few seconds.

The cvs also returns the same error as the normal source build.

Tinkster can you be more specific about how you installed the libs? That might eb my problem.
Thanks!

can you be more specific about what errors you are actually getting on source builds? it must say moer than "check mtrr"

personally I always found the docs to be great, but then again, I'm *in* it

Ok it says after ./configure:
"Please check mtrr settings at /proc/mtrr (see DOCS/en/video.html#mtrr)"

After trying "make":
############################################################
####### Please run ./configure again - it's changed! #######
############################################################
make: *** [config.h] Error 1

If I am using "installpkg" I get:
root@darkstar:/home/buyo/rob# installpkg mplayer-0.91-i686-1rob.tgz
Installing package mplayer-0.91-i686-1rob...
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION:

root@darkstar:/home/buyo/rob#

There are only about two seconds before i am returned to the prompt. There are also a bunch of messages in the configure.log but I am not sure which specific one might be related to my problem.

Thanks to both of you for the help

Also here is my cat output:
root@darkstar:/home/buyo# cat /proc/mtrr
reg00: base=0x00000000 ( 0MB), size= 256MB: write-back, count=1
reg01: base=0xd8000000 (3456MB), size= 64MB: write-combining, count=1
reg07: base=0xe0000000 (3584MB), size= 64MB: write-combining, count=1

My suggestion would be to try
http://www3.linuxpackages.net/packa...robert/mplayer/

Thanks Tinkster

Well, MPlayer isn't that huge, so, being
returned to the prompt after a few seconds
should be considered normal. Did you look
at the /var/log/packages directory to see
whether it has actually been installed?
Also, did you try to RUN it after being returned? :)

Cheers,
Tink

Well I have an update:

On using the source/cvs to install mplayer it turns out that I needed to set my system clock (I found this out after I gave up on mplayer and tried to install xine, thankfully it gave me a more descriptive error message than "Error 1"). The bad news is now I have another compile problem.

The slackware package still does nothing.

i found mplayer in /var/log/packages and mplayer is listed. I still get command not found when I try to use it tho. I ran "ldconfig" which I thought updated the right thing (sorry don't know the terminology here for telling the system about any new executables). I tried another slackware package (gkrellm) and again it just said "description:" and then returned me to the prompt after about two seconds, then gkrellm was also listed in /var/log/packages, but also would not run.

Man my first three days with slackware are killing me.

Hmmm, I found the CVS install to be fairly painless. The documentation was decent also. I had MPlayer running on a bare.i kernel (slack 9) with no issues at all.

As for gkrellm, did you perchance install to a dir not in your path? If you do a whereis gkrellm does it list it? If so, did you try typing the full path to it? (ie /some/wied/dir/gkrellm &).

Dont give up on slack! These little obstacles help us get that knowledge base built up! Ive been using RH for a couple years, and ill be the first to say that Slack has really put the thinking back into Linux for me. I love the challange! So dont give up! =)

Nowell

Well I wanted to thank everyone for their help on my various issues. Last night I was able to get the xine slack package to install without a hitch. Mplayer and gkrellm packages still dont work, but I was also able to get Gkrellm installed form source. I have to agree with Nowell and say that in the five days that I have used slack I am becoming a more savvy linux user. It is bothersome that all these packages don't work, but it's an issue that I may explore in another forum sometime.