Mplayer

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Mi, den 23.02.2005 schrieb Dotan Cohen um 18:49:

> Alexander,
> Could you please elabrate on this a little more? Because I always
> intall from source, and it is true that I often have trouble running
> programs afterwards, even though they seem to have been installed
> correctly. Juk, for instance, I cannot run, although I installed
> kde-multimedia. What exacly is an application bar file?!? Please
> excuse the newbie smell....
> 
> Dotan Cohen

As running an RPM based Linux distribution with Fedora Core I really
recommend to use the advantages a package management system brings you.
For instance there are enough repositories with mplayer RPMs. Have a
look at www.fedoratracker.org or www.fedorafaq.org for more general
advices.

I was speaking about a menu entry for an application like mplayer.
Kumara (the OP) was asking for one as he misses mplayer in his
applications menu.

$ cat /usr/share/applications/freshrpms-mplayer.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Movie Player
Comment=Play multimedia files and media
Icon=mplayer.xpm
Exec=gmplayer %f
Terminal=false
MimeType=video/mpeg;video/x-msvideo;video/quicktime
Type=Application
Categories=Application;AudioVideo;
Encoding=UTF-8
X-Desktop-File-Install-Version=0.4

Because my mplayer comes from the freshrpms.net repository packaged as
an RPM and thus easy to install or later to upgrade or even to uninstall
(erase), I have a menu entry from the file above.

I hope this makes it a bit more clearer what I was speaking about in my
previous reply.

Alexander


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