On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 09:04, Fred M. Sloniker wrote:
On Thursday 26 December 2002 23:00, Clayton wrote:
MPlayer from http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/ works very nicely to play all video formats, including WMF.
I want to install that, but a rather crippled version is included in SuSE 8.1's distribution, and attempting to uninstall it gives me this message about how it's a vital component to, well, pretty much anything. Is it okay to just install that on top? I don't want to screw up my install...
(I already had an odd situation with trying to install an RPM of an older version of Kmud (since the version included with SuSE is a highly unstable alpha) and having SuSE decide that I REALLY wanted to install the alpha...)
Just leave the version there that the SuSE installer provided. If you recompile, the "make install" part puts all the updated files right over top of the old ones. The result is you get an uncrippled version with all the codecs and YaST and YOU recognise it as a newer version and do not try to over write it... at least not yet on my system. I am running 0.9rc1 and have no problems at all with YaST fighting over versions. C.