Chuck_Sterling wrote:

>Ow Mun Heng wrote:
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>>On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 16:25, Chuck_Sterling wrote:
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>>><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.
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>>Hmm.. seems like you were not introduced to the wonders of apt.
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>>Its just a simple
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>>apt-get install mplayer
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>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
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	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

sounds like you don't have the right repositories listed in your /etc/apt/sources.list. Try adding livna, which carries packages Fedora keep out of the main distro.

the lines to add are:
rpm http://rpm.livna.org/ fedora/2/i386 stable unstable testing
rpm-src http://rpm.livna.org/ fedora/2/i386 stable unstable testing