newbie: howto install mplayer codecs

[Nat Gross]

On 4/2/06, Roger Grosswiler <roger at gwch.net> wrote:
> Am Sonntag, den 02.04.2006, 10:08 -0500 schrieb Nat Gross:
> > On 4/2/06, Roger Grosswiler <roger at gwch.net> wrote:
> > > Am Samstag, den 01.04.2006, 22:05 -0500 schrieb Nat Gross:
> > > > >Nat,
> > > >
> > > > >No right-click-menu.
> > > > >go to Applications-Multimedia-Mplayer
> > > > All I get is a quick flash on the screen.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > yum -y install mplayer-skins
> > > > >
> > > > > Roger
> > > >
> > > > yum replies 'nothing to do'.
> > > >
> > > > nat
> > > >
> > > su
> > > rpm -qa | grep mplayer
> > >
> > > whats the result?
> > > Roger
> >
> > # rpm -qa | grep mplayer
> > mplayer-skins-1.4-1.lvn5
> > mplayer-1.0-0.37.pre7try2.lvn5
> > mplayer-fonts-1.1-3.lvn5
> > mplayerplug-in-3.21-1.lvn5
> >
> > nat
> >
>
> Nat,
>
> mine:
>
> mplayer-skins-1.4-1.lvn5
> mplayer-fonts-1.1-3.lvn5
> mplayer-1.0-0.37.pre7try2.lvn5
> mplayerplug-in-3.21-1.lvn5
> mplayer-gui-1.0-0.37.pre7try2.lvn5
>
> see last line? you need to install mplayer-gui to get gmplayer working.
>
> if you still get a "not found" make sure:
>
> 1) livna's repo is set enabled=1 in /etc/yum.repos.d/livna.repo
> 2) if it is set, try 1st yum clean all and then again yum install
> mplayer-gui
>
> HTH
> Roger
ok. The problem is as follows:
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Dependencies Resolved

=============================================================================
 Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size
=============================================================================
Installing:
  mplayer-gui             i386       1.0-0.37.pre7try2.lvn5  livna    
        243 k

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install      1 Package(s)
Update       0 Package(s)
Remove       0 Package(s)
Total download size: 243 k
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
(1/1): mplayer-gui-1.0-0. 100% |=========================| 243 kB    00:03
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
  Installing: mplayer-gui                  ######################### [1/1]
error: unpacking of archive failed on file
/usr/share/mplayer/Skin/default: cpio: rename

Installed: mplayer-gui.i386 0:1.0-0.37.pre7try2.lvn5
Complete!
---------------------------------------------
Notice the error? Although yum is happy and thinks it completed, there
was an error. And I have no idea what 'cpio rename' error is. Beacuse
I have no files whatsoever in /usr/share/mplayer/Skin/default

nat