[MPlayer-users] Does one need to install mplayer inspite of 'gmplayer' ?

[antoine]

Parameshwara Bhat wrote:

> Hello everybody,
>
> I have a working copy of 'gmplayer ' i.e., GUI. I can 'man' for 
> mplayer and mencoder to list options. But I cannot issue these 
> commands as they are not available in the system. How do I obtain 
> them? Is it necessary to install them separate from mplayer-common ?
>
> Parameshwara Bhat.

Sounds like a PATH problem?
Post the results of
$ which mplayer
and
echo $PATH
Cheeers
Antoine