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

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Friday, 21 October 2005 at 00:23, Philip Prindeville 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?

Usually, you don't need the font RPMs. MPlayer supports freetype and can
use any Type1 or TTF font for OSD and subtitle display.

If you are sure you want this, I reluctantly recommend using --nodeps
in this case.

Regards,
R.

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