[MPlayer-users] Cannot install

[Dominik Mierzejewski]

On Saturday, 01 February 2003, Thomas Hulslander wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> I really appreciate your help...
> I did do that a few minutes ago and it said preparing XXXXX... 100%
> and then it looked like it was complete, as it said 1:mplayer, but then
> my shell prompt never returned. Again, I quit the session, which I know
> is not good, but... it appeared like it was done and wasn't going to do
> any more.

Strange. Try rpm --rebuilddb to clean up your rpm database.

> So, to summarize, I have run the rpm for common and also non-gui. I
> still cannot see mplayer anywhere on the KDE gui.

If you don't install mplayer-gui, you won't have the gmplayer binary
and the menu entry.

> I am willing to undo everything and start over if it's the right thing
> to do, but I will need to know how to un-install.
> 
> scratching head here. Please don't give up on me.

Hmmm. Why don't you read rpm manual first?

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