Problems installing mplayer

[Manish Chakravarty]

On Sun, 2005-07-03 at 03:11 -0500, John Greene wrote:
> Have you tried following the Ubuntu guide http://ubuntuguide.org/ ?  If
> not, try it as it shows explicitly how to get mplayer working (check
> your sources.list to make sure you have the right repos listed from the
> guide).
> 
> On Sun, 2005-07-03 at 13:15 +0530, Manish Chakravarty wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > I have been a fan of Mplayer for a long time now.
> > However, i am facing problems installing mplayer in Ubuntu.
> > Whenever i select the package mplayer-custom in synapitc, it gives me
> > the following errors:
> > mplayer-custom:
> >  Depends: libavcodec2 but it is not going to be installed
> >  Depends: libpostproc0 but it is not going to be installed
> >  Depends: libxvidcore4 but it is not going to be installed
> > 
> > It also says"you are going to install software that can't be
> > autheticated". 
> > How do i install mplayer then?
> > Is it ok to download and compile the source myself? (Will it break
> > something?)
> > Please help
> > Manish Chakravarty
> > 
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Thanks a lot , will check it out for sure

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