i just can't find what i need to install mplayer

[magomago]

Okay guys I've been trying to nail this one for a while and I can't. I'm trying to get mplayer installed. What i did was get the rpms for fedora core 1 and these are it


mplayer-1.0-0.4.pre2.20031107.fr.i386.rpm
mplayer-fonts-1.1-2.fr.noarch.rpm
mplayer-skins-1.3-3.fr.noarch.rpm

now when itried to installe dhte firsr RPM it said i needed a bunch of things so i began to hunt for some of the stuff....I got rid of a lot of the requirements by installing apt-get and then installing a bunch of packages....then i noticed a lot of the stuff said LIB in them so i guessed it was similar to SDL sinc i see the two terms and i go there and downloaded the 1.x and 2.x versions (incluidng the rpms with the -dev) and i couldn't install the 1.x since i had newer versions, and i was able to upgarde my 2.x -devel version...but still nothing

now i'm left with these and i think that they are all part of one RPM but i have no idea which one it is...like i found libdvdread but that asks for libdecess or something :\ I feel like its going around in circules. Can anyone help me out? hanks

alsa-lib is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.4.pre2.20031107.fr
faad2 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.4.pre2.20031107.fr
lame is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.4.pre2.20031107.fr
libasound.so.2 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.4.pre2.20031107.fr
libasound.so.2(ALSA_0.9) is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.4.pre2.20031107.fr
libdv is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.4.pre2.20031107.fr
libdv.so.2 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.4.pre2.20031107.fr
libdvdread is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.4.pre2.20031107.fr
libdvdread.so.3 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.4.pre2.20031107.fr
libfame is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.4.pre2.20031107.fr
liblirc_client.so.0 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.4.pre2.20031107.fr
liblzo.so.1 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.4.pre2.20031107.fr
libmp3lame.so.0 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.4.pre2.20031107.fr
libpostproc = 1.0-0.4.pre2.20031107.fr is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.4.pre2.20031107.fr
libpostproc.so.0 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.4.pre2.20031107.fr
lirc is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.4.pre2.20031107.fr
lzo is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.4.pre2.20031107.fr

 

[Kadarin]

This is exactly why you would appreciate Gentoo.

"emerge mplayer" (then wait a while)

Done.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Use yum. NEVER mess with rpms by hand unless you are forced to. Extremely huge PITA.

 

[Spyro]

apt-get install mplayer (Debian, apt4rpm, Yamd, knoppix, morphix, gnoppix, etc)
urpmi mplayer (Mandrake)
emerge mplayer (Gentoo)

Your only chance is to check out Apt4Rpm. Yup, package management is the one reason that I don't even bother with Red Hat.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Originally posted by: Spyro
apt-get install mplayer (Debian, apt4rpm, Yamd, knoppix, morphix, gnoppix, etc)
urpmi mplayer (Mandrake)
emerge mplayer (Gentoo)

Your only chance is to check out Apt4Rpm. Yup, package management is the one reason that I don't even bother with Red Hat.

I'm pretty sure yum is the new official high-level package manager in fedora, and is supported out of the box.

 

[magomago]

i've already tried

yum install mplayer
yum search mplayer

and the only thing it finds is fonts for mplayer

and

apt-get install mplayer

doesn't find the package (i did install apt-get)

edit: btw the links that are enabled in the apt-get are two links that the link told me to add for Fedora so I'm not accessing repositories for suse or something

 

[magomago]

bymp

 

[Panther505]

Linkage on the paget that you got the sources.list from ? or the directions? I am interested in mplayer on fedora but as I just got the box back from the previous install (Debian gone really bad) I want to keep from borking it.

 

[magomago]

i got it from the yum repositories i beleive- i'll check later

BTW- I also tried to compile it manually from the sources and it after 5 minutes it hit an error- i just got back from class and i'll copy the text from the error later and perhaps 1 of u will noe what it means. I already checked the mplayer documentation and could not find the same error reproduced (they have many errors with each of their own fixes) so its not like i'm jumping to you guys (or so i hope - looking is the first most important thing)

 

[drag]

Don't forget that you need to

apt-get update

and if you want:

apt-get upgrade

first.

Also if you want a good program to install is synaptic's apt-get gui front end.

But I don't know. If Fedora uses Yum it may be best to stick with that... don't want any complications. I don't know.

Probably be safe if you use the same rpm repositories.

For apt the servers that are polled are in /etc/apt/sources.list

Different RPM repositories have different stuff, check out freshrpm.net

The only problem is that if your using fedora it's just so freaking new, that maybe mplayer isn't set up correctly yet. Not sure.

Maybe check out Xine instead if you can't get mplayer yet. Does the same thing, supports the same stuff, mabye not as high-class, but works fine.

 

[cleverhandle]

You definitely do not want to compile mplayer manually - possibly the single most complicated set of compile time options I've ever seen. Post your yum.conf and/or sources.list file. It sounds like your sources are not correct somewhere.