[MPlayer-users] installation

[Diego Biurrun]

Mike Melanson writes:
 > 
 > 	Wow...newest of the newbies. Installing (compiling) a program from
 > a .tar.gz or .tar.bz2 file is one of the most basic of Linux skills. Read
 > this:
 >   "Installation and Hints"
 >   http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/#1.3
 > To be fair, the section doesn't say what to do with the tar.bz2 file, so
 > here's the first step:
 >   "tar Ixvf MPlayer-0.60.tar.bz2"

Take care here, if you have a new version of tar, you might have to
exchange the I for j.  Like this:

tar -xvjf Mplayer-0.60.tar.bz2

Diego