[MPlayer-users] Cannot install

[Yourself]

Quoting Colin Leroy (colin at colino.net) as `CL'
Message date: 01 Feb 2003 at 19:34

CL> Hi,
CL> 
CL> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read
CL> > DOCS/bugreports.html] I just downloaded the file under the NON GUI
CL> > header and then 
CL> > ran rpm -ivh mplayer-common-0.90rc3-2.i386.rpm
CL> > mplayer-0.90rc3-2.i386.rpm 
CL> > warning: only V3 signatures can be verified, skipping V4 signature >
CL> > warning: only V3 signatures can be verified, skipping V4 signature >
CL> > Preparing...     ###########################################[100%]
CL> >         package mplayer-common-0.90rc3-2 is already installed
CL> > 
CL> > Should that do it?
CL> 
CL> No, rpm aborts everything on error
CL> try `rpm -ivh mplayer-0.90rc3-2.i386.rpm`

Huh... The wonders or RPM... Thank you Redhat. Thank you very much!
You guys, it is much more simple:

tar -zxvf MPlayer-xxxxxx.tar.gz
cd MPlayer-xxxxxx
./configure; make
su
[ENTER ROOT PASSWORD]
make install


once you get used to it, you'll find it much for convenient

-- 
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