Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4288 mails)

[Kevin L Hochhalter <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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