[K12OSN] Getting MPlayer installed
Jim Kronebusch
jim at winonacotter.org
Wed Aug 23 17:00:29 UTC 2006
> This thing wgets and installs stuff from many different sites. Many
> of the installations aren't controlled by your package manager. It adds
> several different Yum repositories.
>
> Why does it untar it's own kdesu when it's available from the kdebase
> package? Why does it install an old version (7.0.5) of Adobe Reader with
> security problems?
> http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/331710.html
>
> If you're intent on using this, untar it, and read through the
> frog.script to see what it's _really_ doing.
At this point, I don't really care. It works. I have battled Multimedia on
Linux since I started using it. Now I can check half a dozen boxes and stuff
plays....finally. I don't have to navigate to all the different sites myself
and figure out what codecs are needed for WMV's, what apps and crap I need for
MP3's, and then install it all. It adds the repositories for me.
At this point, I am happy to remain ignorant and have something simple that works.
<puts fingers in ears....na.na.na.na.na.......... :-)>
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