Re: Installing Videoplayers

From: Nils O. Selåsdal (NOS_at_Utel.no)
Date: 04/16/04 

Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 13:51:13 +0200

On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 06:48:12 -0500, the_torst wrote:

> Hi again,
>
> I've found a few videoplayers out there, but I don't know how
> to install them.
> I usually get a tar.gz file, and no matter what file I click in it,
> only text comes up.
> What am I supposed to do?
Open a terminal(command line)
Make sure you have the compiler & development files installed.
tar -xvzf file.tar.gz
cd file
./configure
make
make install

>
> Thanks a lot for helping guys.
Imho. Just go to www.freshrpms.net, and install the mplayer rpms
Much easier, and mplayer is all you need for playing videos.
(well, perhaps xine or ogle if you'll watch dvds.) 

-- 
Nils Olav Selåsdal
System Engineer
w w w . u t e l s y s t e m s . c o m

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