unofficial mplayer - HowTo

[Antonio]

rpowersau at gmail.com wrote:

>OK, so it doesn't handle the make install like the above says it does
>unless you are installing locally in your own directory for a single
>user.
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When you install the .deb you _will have_ mplayer installed _system 
wide_ (in the usual dirs: /usr etc). It's for the package creation that 
you don't need root access.

Make install, instead, installs mplayer system wide but in different 
dirs (/usr/local/), but is not always trivial to uninstall unless you 
use installwatch, or other tools.

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>>As almost always, the man page for fakeroot explains what is happening.
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>If I don't have it installed, I don't have the man page. 
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Please Read That Fine Manual, if you want to understand more. It's easy 
to install :-)

- Antonio