Problems installing MPlayer

[darksaga80]

Right now, I'm trying to install MPlayer so I can watch quicktime videos. I'm missing something and can't seem to figure out what.

I downloaded the codec, the font, and the skin for the player. After that I used the extract program. Now, the files are in the "tmp" file. I figured I have to untar the files in order to install them - right?

When I ran the "bzip2 -d" command I continue to get the response "No file or directory exists"

I know where the files are located. Do I need to un tar these files? When I go to the "./configure" command its not working.


I know I'm missing something, and its driving me mad!!!



late

[Javasnob]

Let's say the file's called mplayer.tar.bz2:

tar -xjvf mplayer.tar.bz2
cd mplayer/
./configure
make
make install (as root)

[darksaga80]

That didn't work. Lemme give you some more info.

Here's what I do step by step with the output:

dir

[crashoverride@mybox ~]$ dir
kmnresume1.doc
Bike\ Park\ costs\ and\ questions.doc kmnresume2.doc
Desktop KMNResume.doc
GNUstep ResumeCoverLetter.doc
install_flash_player_6_linux_sa tmp
install_flash_player_7_linux Type\ name\ of\ new\ folder

dir tmp

[crashoverride@mybox ~]$ dir tmp
MPlayer-1.0pre8.tar.bz2 plugtmp-1 tmp-1.xpi tmp.xpi
orbit-crashoverride plugtmp-2 tmp-2.xpi
plugtmp quicktime4linux-2.0.0-src.tar.bz2 tmp-3.xpi


Here's where it gets sticky. I know the file is "MPlayer-1.0pre8.tar.bz2"

So I goto to use the gzip command to un-bzip2 the file - right?

bzip2 -d MPlayer-1.0pre8.tar.bz2

and get this:

bzip2: Can't open input file MPlayer-1.0pre8.tar.bz2: No such file or directory.


when I tried what you said, I got this:

tar -xjvf mplayer.tar.bz2

tar: mplayer.tar.bz2: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors


the plot thickens. . .still stuck.