[MPlayer-users] Reg- help me to install mplayer please

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Thursday, 22 April 2004 at 16:22, Aaron Peterson wrote:
> > i have got mplayer rpm's only for Rh 7.* , can we use
> > for Rh 9 ...
> > an one more question whether it is machine dependent
> > (i.e) i386 or for i686.is it is necesssary to have
> > different rpms for different machines...
> >
> > please help me....don't hesitate to help me....
> 
> you will be best to use rpms created for redhat 9 to ensure
> library compatability.  rpms for redhat 7x will definitely not
> work because they have changed compiler versions since then (among
> other reasons).  I'm pretty sure mplayer is part of the standard
> redhat distribution,

It's not. And there are no official RedHat 9 RPMs (yet).
But I'm told the ones for 7.3 work just fine.
In fact, you can use my apt repository to automagically download
it. I recommend the "testing" release, which is 1.0pre3try2.

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