On Saturday 18 May 2002 17:38, MindBender wrote:
Hello I'm trying to install mplayer on my SuSE 7.3 system I have download the source file compile and install but for now I have no GUI and I cannot start mplayer...
can anybody tell me if there is suse rpm for installing mplayer if not how can I finish the istallation and configure mplayer to run properly ...
Thanks for the help.
Do you have the package xdevel installed? These are the X development libraries that are needed when you're making a source that relies on X. Look around on your cd's, as I am sure that you have it. Use YaST2 to install it, and then run 'make uninstall' in the directory where you have the mplayer sources. Run './configure' again, and then 'make', and finally 'make install.' Very important also that you have downloaded and installed the codecs! They need to go in /usr/lib/win32. You will need to create this directory, since I don't think that it is created when you run 'make,' although I could be wrong. Can't remember at the moment. Also, make sure that you have put the file codecs.conf, which comes in the tarball, in $HOME/.mplayer Just in case you do have xdevel, the codecs, and codecs.conf installed, try getting mplayer to open a file this way: mplayer -vo x11 somefile And no, I don't think that there is an rpm for mplayer, since I don't think that distribution of a binary is allowed. This is based on something I read a while ago at the mplayer web site, although I could be wrong. Good luck, and let us know how things turn out for you. Kevin