installing MPlayer

[qwert_666]

Hey all, Im tryin to install Mplayer on mandrake 9.1, now I dont exactly know much about installing in linux....what I have done so far is uncompressed the file to get a MPlayer diretory, then in that directory I ran "./configure," it did its thing, then I ran "make", it did its thing, then I ran :"make install" it did its thing, now I have found a binary executable called "MPlayer" in /usr/local/bin/...but when I dbl click it nothing happens, Im just wondering how the heck I get this program to run, and also, do I need to reboot for the install to work

[OOPS!]

I assume you installed the source right? A couple of things to try. First you might not have permisson to exicute as a user. Check the permission and set it to allow the user to exicute. Another thing to try is open a term and type in the exicutable from there as the user. that way you will see any errors that it imight be causing.

HTH,
OOPS!

[Streams]

in the console type 'mplayer'

If it installed properly that should start it.

[aym]

you've only compiled the command line version of mplayer, to use it type the command:
mplayer filename
where filename is the file you want to play (MP3 Ogg ...)
If you want the GUI version of mplayer, you need to re-compile it, read the readme file that comes with mplayer, I think you should have used:
./configure --with-gui
instead of just ./configure, so read the readme!
then you need to install a skin and a font, available at mplayer's site.
then you start the GUI version of mplayer by the command:
gmplayer

[kilgoretrout]

There are rpms for mplayer compiled for Mandrake 9.1 that are available on Penguin Liberation Front:

http://plf.zarb.org/

Click on the Easy urpmi link, select Mandrake 9.1, i586 architecture and press the proceed to step 2 button. Go down to External add ons and tick the plf square after selecting a mirror from the drop down menu then press the proceed to step 3 button. Open a console, su to root and type in the command listed in step 3. After that installing mplayer is easy. Just run the following command as root:

# urpmi mplayer

Urpmi will download all the dependencies and install mplayer.