[MPlayer-users] Re: [Fwd: gmplayer 0.9-1]

[zimon@iki.fi]

On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 01:45:07PM +1000, Graeme Nichols wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 04:07, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> > Get the source RPM and do
> > rpmbuild --rebuild --with menu --target XXX mplayer-0.91-1.src.rpm
> > (where XXX is your CPU designation in RPM terms, i.e. i686, see rpm docs).
> 
> Thanks for the info but I would prefer to only install RPMs, not because
> it is easier to install, but because it is easier to get rid of the
> beasts if I no longer want a particular program.

Well that --rebuild will make you a RPM-package, which you then can install
normally (and later remove if you want).

rpmbuild will probably complain you have some devel packages missing, but
after you install them you can rebuild and make the rpm package.