again

Cyber Source peter at thecybersource.com
Mon Dec 22 15:23:52 EST 2003


sounds like a mandrake thing ;)

Joe wrote:

> I found my gmplayer in /usr/bin/bin - not in my path.  What is 
> /usr/bin/bin used for - why is it there?  (MDK 9.1)
>
> Joe
>
> Cyber Source wrote:
>
>> OK, since a couple people have interest in mplayer. I put it up on 
>> our website for download. Go to http://www.cybersource.us and click 
>> on the downloads button, then  select mplayer. Remember this is a set 
>> of packages to satisfy dependencies for the RH9 distro. If your doing 
>> a Mandrake install, start with just the mplayer package itself and 
>> see if and what dependencies it might need, then you could 
>> selectively start including other packages. Just a note, when 
>> installing via rpm, you can avoid a "leap frog" dependency hell of 
>> which comes first by installing multiple packages at once, either by 
>> wild cards or multiple package comments in the same rpm line 
>> separated by spaces. For example, I install that all the packages in 
>> that tar ball by going in the directory and "rpm -ivh *". Good luck 
>> and remember, one of the packages in that tar ball is for the gui, so 
>> if you install that, you can start the gui mplayer by typing gmplayer.
>>
>




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