[PLUG] mplayer and SuSE

[Christian Brink]

David Fleck wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Mar 2006, Christian Brink wrote:
>   
>> David Fleck wrote:
>>     
>>> Without mplayer, I'm stuck trying to use kaffeine (emphasis on "trying") as
>>> a multimedia player.  (In my personal experience, kaffeine is the most
>>> worthless piece of OSS ever in the history of the world - I have never,
>>> once, in 3 different versions of SuSE on 3 different machines, been able to
>>> view a single file with it.)
>>>   
>>>       
>> You're better off compiling it from source. It's not that bad.
>> If you use a precompiled package it has to do run time CPU
>> Detection, which will effect performance.
>>     
>
> Thanks to everybody for the suggestions.  I'm finding that the 
> RPM-dependency hell involved in installing the suggested rpm is 
> particularly severe; it may be just as painful installing from rpm as 
> installing a second gcc and building from source. More so, it looks like.
>
> Rhetorical question: why can't a tool as feature-bloated as rpm 
> recursively resolve dependencies?  
>   

'yum' (standard with FC) does resolve rpm deps - really well.

yum on SuSE 10 (caveat: quick google search and skim - not endorsement):
http://liquidat.blogspot.com/2005/10/setting-up-yum-on-suse-linux-100.html


Christian