<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=us-ascii" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Chuck_Sterling wrote: <blockquote cite="midcc59cu$e9i$3@sea.gmane.org" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Ow Mun Heng wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 16:25, Chuck_Sterling wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap=""><FWIW> Last night I successfully installed mplayer on FC2, and want to post the list of rpms I installed to support this. Someone else might find the info useful. Most of the list was found on the Internet via a google search. I'm not sure that all were needed, but installed them all anyway. One rpm I needed was not listed there but was called out during the installation as a dependency. All were downloaded from freshrpms.org. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">Hmm.. seems like you were not introduced to the wonders of apt. Its just a simple apt-get install mplayer </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">Much simpler. I could not get it to work, and also had trouble using yum. What I did was a kludge, but did the trick. Next time I will try to use one of the automatic methods. Thanks for the feedback. Chuck </pre> </blockquote> I have for some time tried to install mplayer but all I get is the following, so I'm actually starting to doubt that there is an mplayer out there for FC2. [root@localhost truls]# apt-get install mplayer Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Couldn't find package mplayer [root@localhost truls]# Truls </body> </html>