[MPlayer-users] Where can I find these libraries?

[Stroller]

On 13 Nov 2008, at 06:06, bravo 007 wrote:
>> Ok i'm  sorry, I forgot when I replied your message it forwarded to  
>> your mail not this mailing list. I type "mplayer" in console and it  
>> gave me an error message that mplayer can't find this library (for  
>> this case libcaca.so.0), so what should I do now?
>
> John Doe wrote:
> BUT given the fact that BackTrack is a Live CD and bravo 007 is  
> asking on how to make mplayer work on it...
> All I can say is : good luck!
> Please, bravo 007, feel free to humour me,
> but if you do so - tell us how you made mplayer run on BackTrack 3.
>
>> Yes, you're right. So what? Did you think I run mplayer from LIVE  
>> CD?  I don't know who wrote this, but if  you think i humour you,  
>> maybe you can laugh if you read this http://forum.remote-exploit.org/showthread.php?t=14751&highlight=install+backtrack+3 
>> . ( I think i still have 2 neurons so that i can install this BT to  
>> my hdd and that is a "full" install). After that I installed  
>> mplayer and that's where this problem came from.


I'm just going to ignore the quoting above - if anyone is confused by  
the above then I suggest they read the individual posts of this thread.

1) Backtrack 3

Ok, so this is a Slackware-based LiveCD distro intended for security &  
penetration testing.

2) mplayer from www.linuxpackages.net

This appears to be a Slackware package. I'm guessing that the reason  
it doesn't work is that libcaca &c are packaged as part of the base  
Slackware distro but the Backtrack developers don't consider them  
important considering the purpose of the distro. And you can't find  
Slackware libcaca packages because they're usually supplied on the  
Slackware install CD - although I guess you might have some luck if  
you searched Slackware's own security update repositories.

3) Considering its intended purpose, installing Backtrack 3 on a hard- 
disk and then using it as a general purpose distro (for media  
playback) is probably a Really Bad Idea (tm). The problem you have  
encountered isn't really surprising, and you may well experience more  
similar ones if you solve this. You'd probably be better off wiping  
the hard-drive, installing Slackware and then using `slackpkg` to  
install mplayer <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slackpkg>. Having read a  
little about Slackware's (lack of) package management & slackpkg, you  
might try installing slackpkg on your current Backtrack system &  
seeing if it can resolve the dependencies for you.

4) This list can help you if you download the sources for mplayer from  
subversion <http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html#source> and  
then compile them <http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML-single/en/MPlayer.html#features 
 >. This list doesn't support the Slackware package you found or any  
other.

Stroller.