Had just downloaded the following from Packman's site :


lame-3.96.1-pm.1.i586.rpm
w32codec-all-20041107-0.pm.0.i386.rpm
MPlayer-1.0pre5-pm.2.i586.rpm

Did an installation (in sequence above) by using the right click and selected : "installed with YasT"

Two questions:

1. Besides using the right click ,
is there a way to go to control center -> YasT , and then do an installation there? I had tried many times but just cannot find where to add the files for installation via the control center (not even in the "add and remove software" panel)

2. after installation tried to play some MPG files using Mplayer. the Mplayer screen goes BLACK and hang (waited for 10-15 minutes).
Did a reboot of the system and the problem is still there. any idea?
The files are playable on Kaffiane.

you should use apt
makes life much easier

go to www.freshrpms.net look for apt
install it
next open the terminal
type in this.....

next do this in the terminal


this will get all required packages for mplayer
and resolve all dependancies
no need to make file and all that shit!!!

if you can't use apt. try yum

It looks to me that you miss some depending packages.
Installation of MPlayer package also requires:
xvidcore
libdvdread

SlackerLX, jlawren7 ,


thanks for the info


understand that part

but as I do not have broadband/cable anywhre near my SuSE, I can only access by dialup and the rates over here is rather high.

so what i normally do is to download any package via broadband somewhere else and do and offline installation at SuSE.

did try to install Mplayer (without the other two package) and SuSE prompts that I need to install lame and W32Codec during its dependency check. So I happily thought that it was all taken care of

SuSE is not as forgiving as Slackware, admiral.