trying to instll MPLayer in eServer 3.1.1

[Keith Antoine]

On Sunday 17 March 2002 06:12 pm, you wrote:
> Its a bit strange that you'd get SDL as a tarball, and SDL-devel as an
> RPM.  It should all be one or the other, not a mixture.  Plus if you're
> building SDL from a tarball, then you should already have gotten the
> 'devel' stuff with the tarball.  I'm wondering if you have ended up with
> a mixed version.  Might be best to remove SDL completely as best as you
> can, and reinstall it again all from either RPM or tarball.

Right will try that.

> ALso, which version of XFree86 are you using?   I noticed some internal
> references to X11 stuff in those errors.  If its the Caldera hack job of
> XFree86, you might want to consider grabbing XFree86-4.2.0 and using
> that instead.

Have had Xfree-4.2.0 going for sometime now

> I've built MPlayer on 3 different boxes, and never ran into any
> problems, but i tend to use alot of pure sources rather than distro
> RPMs.

Mostly I use tarballs so maybe its the rpm thats buggered it up. Start from 
sqaure one again. Funnuly I have most others working, VLC, MTV, Xine etc.



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