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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