[MPlayer-users] Installing Mplayer

[Martin Collins]

On Mon, 16 Dec 2002 16:50:24 -0500
Mike Myers <mike.myers at cesmail.net> wrote:

> I compiled and installed Mplayer as root, and it works perfectly.

That's good.

> I then switched users, back to my regular user account, and tried 
> running "mplayer" but got "command not found."

Is it in your $PATH? 

martin at thoth:~/video$ which mplayer
/usr/bin/mplayer
martin at thoth:~/video$ echo $PATH
/home/martin/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games

Martin