unofficial mplayer - HowTo

[Antonio]

Kent Frazier wrote:

>Instead of 'sudo make install', you may want to use 'sudo
>checkinstall' instead (you will have to apt-get checkinstall first).
>  
>
It's better to use the debian/rules included in the mplayer sources if 
you want to create a debian package. Instead of ./configure && make && 
make install, just do:

  fakeroot debian/rules binary

and mplayer will be compiled and a debian package created without the 
need to be root. My script does this (but also it installs the needed 
packages, download the sources, the skins, the fonts, the live.com 
library and permit to choose the cvs for mplayer).

If you want to add some extra option in the configure just use the 
DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS variable:

  DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="--option-of-your-choice" fakeroot debian/rules binary

- Antonio