On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 21:13, Chris Wilkinson wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Gareth Williams wrote:
> > Nah, there's nothing wrong with mplayer, and it works better than xine in
> > my experience. If you're having trouble with the precompiled binaries,
> > try downloading and compiling from source, worked fine for me :-)
> > (almost straight off from memory ;-)
>
> I'm not so sure I could successfully install source on my setup, since
> any attempt to do so on other packages ALWAYS ends up failing on some
> missing (or many) dependencies or libs, or other scary messages a newbie
> like me cannot fathom...
>
> Does anyone in the LUG have mplayer on CD, with ALL dependants? That
> would theoretically be a better option for me...
Gentoo tells me that these are the dependencies for mplayer.
chris@liberty ppp $ emerge -s mplayer
Searching...
[ Results for search key : mplayer ]
[ Applications found : 3 ]
* media-video/kmplayer [ Masked ]
Latest version available: 0.6.5a
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 423 kB
Homepage: http://www.xs4all.nl/~jjvrieze/kmplayer.html
Description: MPlayer frontend for KDE
* media-video/mplayer
Latest version available: 0.90_rc2
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 3,728 kB
Homepage: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/
Description: Media Player for Linux
* x11-themes/mplayer-skins
Latest version available: 0.1
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 4,965 kB
Homepage: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/
Description: Collection of mplayer themes
chris@liberty ppp $ emerge --pretend mplayer
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild U ] sys-apps/gawk-3.1.1-r1 [3.1.1]
[ebuild U ] sys-apps/baselayout-1.8.5.8 [1.8.2]
[ebuild N ] app-arch/cabextract-0.6
[ebuild U ] sys-devel/flex-2.5.4a-r5 [2.5.4a-r4]
[ebuild N ] x11-misc/ttmkfdir-3.0.4
[ebuild U ] x11-base/opengl-update-1.5 [1.3]
[ebuild U ] x11-base/xfree-4.2.1-r2 [4.2.0-r12]
[ebuild N ] media-libs/libdv-0.98
[ebuild N ] media-libs/win32codecs-0.90.1-r1
[ebuild N ] media-video/mplayer-0.90_rc2
so mke sure you have these packages installed before you try to install
mplayer. Either from the mdk RPM archive or compile from source.
--
Sincerely etc.,
Christopher Sawtell
