[MPlayer-users] Help on installation of MPlayer

[Fredrik Kuivinen]

On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 11:31:52AM +0000, robb kimmer wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> I have successfully(!) downloaded and carried out the simple three steps to 
> installation. 
> 
> The third step, which required the command >make install, failed (it seems?)
> 
> I received this error:
> 
> robb at linuxws:/tmp/MPlayer-0.60 > make install
> if test ! -d /usr/local/bin ; then mkdir -p /usr/local/bin ; fi
> install -m 755 -s mplayer /usr/local/bin/mplayer
> install: cannot create regular file `/usr/local/bin/mplayer': Permission 
> denied
> make: *** [install] Error 1
> robb at linuxws:/tmp/MPlayer-0.60 >
> 

mplayer 0.60 is quite old. Download a cvs snapshot from the mplayer
homepage instead.

> Can someone tell me what I have done wrong? Have I done anything wrong? What 
> can I do to reinstate myself as a good person of fine character?
> 
> At the time of install, I was logged on to my SuSe 7.2 workstation, as a user 
> and not as root. I report this, as I have a sneaky suspicion that htis factor 
> might play an important part in the failure.
>

Your suspicion is correct, you need to be root to install mplayer in
the default installation directory.

/ Fredrik