On Saturday 23 October 2004 8:16 am, David Robertson wrote:
If you look at the bottom of the above page, you'll find links to the necessary dependencies! The w32 codecs aren't listed because, strictly speaking, you don't need them, except for certain files. For those, look at the top of the packman page for the package index, and there you will find all that you need, and some more. Download all of these files (lame, libtheora, Win32-Codecs, MPlayer) into a separate directory, open a terminal and, as root, issue the command
rpm -ivh *.rpm /sbin/SuSEconfig
thanks, AFTER sending that message I noticed those packages at the bottom of that page, I had to scroll down to see them. Command line is no problem, neither is YAST, I'm just not familiar with SUSE or where to get all these packages that didn't come with it.
If you're not comfortable with doing it that way, use konqueror to download the files and you'll get the option with each one to install using YaST: install the dependencies first, including the w32 codecs, and MPlayer itself last. Have a go at doing it from the command line though - good to learn about rpm and installing files. If you type "man rpm" in a terminal, you'll get lots of information on the program. You'll also find more information in /usr/share/doc/packages/"name_of_package."
I got the other 2 installed, downloading the w32codecs now. -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800