>Well, these are X applications (and Amarok is a KDE application.) >Obviously they need X to work. USE flags are there to configure >*optional* dependencies and behaviors. For mplayer and Amarok, these >dependencies are not optional. > >As others mentioned, you should install a command line player. There >are a few. mpg123 is not really a media player though. You might want >to look at this: > >http://tuxarena.blogspot.com/2009/04/several-powerful-console-music-players.html >
Thank you ! No wonder it didn't work . Maybe I indeed need to install a KDE desktop .