Help PLEASE! MPlayer install/run on 10.1

[aymsters]

I'm completely new to Linux and this is really frustrating...

I really need help with possibly uninstalling and reinstalling MPlayer. I don't really know ANYTHING at all about how to wield Linux or command lines and etc., and I'm really wishing that everything was as easy as it is on Windows.

So I did stuff with Packman and installed MPlayer and smplayer, but when I try to open it nothing happens. When I mess with the command line and try to run it through there, here's what goes on:

First, I tried running it with MPlayer itself:

mplayer: error while loading shared libraries: libdirectfb-0.9.so.24: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Then, I tried running it with smplayer:

smplayer: error while loading shared libraries: libkio.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

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So... I'm wondering if there's just one huge database or SOMETHING easy where I can get every lib (or whatever it is) that I need all in one package and a step by step thing as to where I need to put it and how to install it, etc.

I'm one frustrated newbie

[gogalthorp]

Did you use Yast? or did you try to install by hand?

Yast-Software-Software Administration

Yast will manage all the dependencies

You are trying to do it the hard way.

You need to add the Packman repository.

Here is some help on installing the media stuff in 10.1

Hacking SUSE Linux 10.1 - Sofware in Review