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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>>>
I'm trying to enable the aalib and cacalib features in
mplayer(the<BR>>> libraries that let you render graphics in
ascii)<BR><BR>>Hm... only aalib is supported in current RPM packages. But if
you tell<BR>>me where to download cacalib RPMs, I'll add support for
them.<BR><BR>>> I installed the src.rpm for mplayer-1.0pre4-1(the version
I have)<BR>>> <BR>>> Then when I attempt to do an rpmbuild --rebuild
-with
aalib<BR>
^^<BR>>I assume you used a double hyphen there.<BR><BR>>>
mplayer-1.0pre4-1*.src.*rpm it issues an error:<BR>>> error: syntax error
in expression<BR>>> error: /usr/src/packages/SPECS/mplayer.spec:122:
parseExpressionBoolean<BR>>> returns -1<BR>>> error: Package has no
%description: mplayer<BR><BR>>I'll fix it.</FONT><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have not been doing rpm --build
--rebuild... I will attempt this when I get home. As for
libcaca there is a delightful project for it;</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
href="http://sam.zoy.org/projects/libcaca/">http://sam.zoy.org/projects/libcaca/</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>All the screencaps are from the VideoLan player
which I have just installed to tinker with as well. I'm using Suse 9, and
several resources I have consulted tell me that rpmbuild is an effective tool,
but I shall definetely attempt the --build version</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>