[MPlayer-users] Question about fonts, skins, when building from source

[EC]

On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 16:23:49 -0600
Philip Prindeville <philipp_subx at redfish-solutions.com> wrote:

> I've gotten the tarballs to build source, but wanted to install the .rpm's
> for the skins and fonts...
> 
> Problem is, when you go to install either, it fails because it wants to
> see the RPM for mplayer itself has having been installed..  But that's
> not going to happen, since I'm building objects from sources.
> 
> Is there an easy fix to get the font and default skins to install anyway?

This is really an rpm question, but --nodeps or similar should work; although this is not good practice.  I would recommend using tgz's for the fonts, or ideally install some sort of dummy package for mplayer.  Not sure how to do this with rpms though.

//EC