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MindBender

19 May 2002 19 May '02

00:38

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. ===== ,. \\|// - ? (o o) /======================oOOO=(_)OOo=====================\ email : ephlodur@rocketmail.com What we need is Awareness we can't get carelless. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com

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Kevin L Hochhalter

19 May 19 May

03:07

New subject: [SLE] problem installing mplayer on SuSE 7.3

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

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Clayton Cornell

03:58

New subject: [SLE] problem installing mplayer on SuSE 7.3

On Sunday 19 May 2002 02:38, 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.

First, there is no RPM that I have heard of. Not really a need since mplayer usually compiles and runs in SuSE quite nicely. Have you done these things (from sections 1.3 and 1.4 of the MPlayer docs): downloaded and extracted the w32 codecs to: /usr/lib/win32 ./configure --enable-gui make make install downloaded and extracted a skin to: /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin or $HOME/.mplayer/Skin to turn on GUI mode, you either 1. use the -gui option 2. specify gui=yes in your config file or 3. ln -s /usr/local/bin/mplayer /usr/local/bin/gmplayer and call gmplayer instead of just mplayer If you have done all this and still cannot get it to work, what errors are you getting? C.

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MindBender

16:48

New subject: [SLE] problem installing mplayer on SuSE 7.3

I did not enable gui when I first did the ./configure but now when I type ./configure --enable-gui it say that he can't find GTK but if I do a rpm -q -a | grep gtk .. I see that gtk is installed what are the package that I need install to configure and compile mplayer so far it has been 2 days with no succes.. Thanks for the help --- Clayton Cornell wrote:

On Sunday 19 May 2002 02:38, 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.

First, there is no RPM that I have heard of. Not really a need since mplayer usually compiles and runs in SuSE quite nicely.

Have you done these things (from sections 1.3 and 1.4 of the MPlayer docs): downloaded and extracted the w32 codecs to: /usr/lib/win32

./configure --enable-gui make make install

downloaded and extracted a skin to: /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin or $HOME/.mplayer/Skin

to turn on GUI mode, you either 1. use the -gui option 2. specify gui=yes in your config file or 3. ln -s /usr/local/bin/mplayer /usr/local/bin/gmplayer and call gmplayer instead of just mplayer

If you have done all this and still cannot get it to work, what errors are you getting?

C.

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Ewan Leith

16:52

New subject: [SLE] problem installing mplayer on SuSE 7.3

you will need the gtk-devel packages as well as gtk itself. Ewan On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 17:48, MindBender wrote:

I did not enable gui when I first did the ./configure but now when I type ./configure --enable-gui it say that he can't find GTK but if I do a rpm -q -a | grep gtk .. I see that gtk is installed what are the package that I need install to configure and compile mplayer so far it has been 2 days with no succes..

Thanks for the help

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Clayton Cornell

17:04

New subject: [SLE] problem installing mplayer on SuSE 7.3

Something someone else on the list kindly pointed out to me... it went something like this... if an application needs package foo to run, then you need foo-devel to build the application. Give this a try - install gtk-devel-1.2.10-284 (or whatever version is on the 7.3 disks), and make sure that you also have libpng-devel (also requred to build the MPlayer gui). C. On Sunday 19 May 2002 18:48, MindBender wrote:

I did not enable gui when I first did the ./configure but now when I type ./configure --enable-gui it say that he can't find GTK but if I do a rpm -q -a | grep gtk .. I see that gtk is installed what are the package that I need install to configure and compile mplayer so far it has been 2 days with no succes..

Thanks for the help

--- Clayton Cornell wrote:

...
On Sunday 19 May 2002 02:38, 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.

First, there is no RPM that I have heard of. Not really a need since mplayer usually compiles and runs in SuSE quite nicely.

Have you done these things (from sections 1.3 and 1.4 of the MPlayer docs): downloaded and extracted the w32 codecs to: /usr/lib/win32

./configure --enable-gui make make install

downloaded and extracted a skin to: /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin or $HOME/.mplayer/Skin

to turn on GUI mode, you either 1. use the -gui option 2. specify gui=yes in your config file or 3. ln -s /usr/local/bin/mplayer /usr/local/bin/gmplayer and call gmplayer instead of just mplayer

If you have done all this and still cannot get it to work, what errors are you getting?

C.

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MindBender

20 May 20 May

02:42

New subject: [SLE] problem installing mplayer on SuSE 7.3

you are probably right...about .. you see I really not used to build my apps I like the rpm and other package manager my I see your point I will keep that in mind for next time I have to compile my app Thanks for the help. --- Clayton Cornell wrote:

Something someone else on the list kindly pointed out to me... it went something like this... if an application needs package foo to run, then you need foo-devel to build the application.

Give this a try - install gtk-devel-1.2.10-284 (or whatever version is on the 7.3 disks), and make sure that you also have libpng-devel (also requred to build the MPlayer gui).

C.

On Sunday 19 May 2002 18:48, MindBender wrote:

...
I did not enable gui when I first did the ./configure but now when I type ./configure --enable-gui it say that he can't find GTK but if I do a rpm -q -a | grep gtk .. I see that gtk is installed what are the package that I need install to configure and compile mplayer so far it has been 2 days with no succes..

Thanks for the help

--- Clayton Cornell wrote:

...
On Sunday 19 May 2002 02:38, 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.

First, there is no RPM that I have heard of. Not really a need since mplayer usually compiles and runs in SuSE quite nicely.

Have you done these things (from sections 1.3 and 1.4 of the MPlayer docs): downloaded and extracted the w32 codecs to: /usr/lib/win32

./configure --enable-gui make make install

downloaded and extracted a skin to: /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin or $HOME/.mplayer/Skin

to turn on GUI mode, you either 1. use the -gui option 2. specify gui=yes in your config file or 3. ln -s /usr/local/bin/mplayer /usr/local/bin/gmplayer and call gmplayer instead of just mplayer

If you have done all this and still cannot get it to work, what errors are you getting?

C.

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