unofficial mplayer - HowTo

[Kent Frazier]

On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 12:48:05 +1300, Christoph Georgi
<christoph.georgi at web.de> wrote:
> Yes, those problems with the merrilat-mplayer are pretty old. You cannot
> install that package under Warty.
> 
> However, it is really not a big problem to compile mplayer, even if one
> is not an developer or packager, although one might not be adviced to do
> so, especially cause it's hard to get rid of mplayer once installed.
> 
> Here's a small HowTo for the desperate:
> 
> 1. Download the source code from mplayerhq.hu including the essential
> codec package, a skin, and a font package.
> 
> 2. Untar the Essential Codecs to /usr/local/lib/codecs and the MPlayer
> code in /opt
> 
> 3. Install the following packages using Synaptic:
> gcc-3.3, gcc-3.4, libx11-dev, libpng, libpng10-dev, libpng12-dev,
> libgtk1.2-dev
> (You might require less, with those packages it works fine..)
> 
> 4. In a Terminal change to the /opt/MPlayer-1.0pre5 directory and run
>         $ sudo ./configure --enable-gui
> 
> 5. $ sudo make
> 
> 6. $ sudo make install

Instead of 'sudo make install', you may want to use 'sudo
checkinstall' instead (you will have to apt-get checkinstall first). 
This program automatically creates a .deb and allows apt to track the
package.  This way, if you need to remove it later, you can do so
through apt-get or synaptic instead of by digging aroudn trying to
find the files.

Good luck.

Kent