Re: [K12OSN] Media Players

Stephen Liu (satimis@icare.com.hk)
09 May 2003 13:28:29 +0800


Hi James,

I encountered following problem on using "apt-get install mplayer'

On Fri, 2003-05-09 at 05:53, James Jensen wrote:
> You can use apt-get to easily install this among many other things.  From
> the command-line:
> 
>      apt-get install mplayer

# apt-get install mplayer
Processing File Dependencies... Done
apt-get: rpm/rpmlistparser.cc:240: string rpmListParser::Architecture
(): Assertion `res' failed.
Aborted

Can you shed me some light?

Thanks in advance.

B.Regards
Stephen Liu


> apt-get is the coolest thing for RPM based GNU/Linux since OpenOffice.org! 
> Away with RPM dependency issues, be gone! ;-)
> 
> If command-line is not your thing, you can use Synaptic from the GUI.  It's
> a front-end for apt-get...
> 
> James Jensen
> 
> 
> --- Stefan Furtmayr  wrote:
> > Hello Anthony,
> > 
> > > Has anyone found a way use Linux Mozilla with Window's Media Player or
> > Apple Quick time movies?
> > 
> > have a look at http://www.mplayerhq.hu/
> > There are already RPMs working with RH8.
> > 
> > You should get:
> > - mplayer
> > - mplayer-common
> > - mplayer-gui
> > (all three are also available as i686 and AMD versions)
> > - mplayer-skin-default
> > And the most important for you:
> > - mplayer-codecs-*
> > 
> > At home i especially like to use the TV-Out with Nvidia's binary drivers
> > -
> > they have the xv extensions and if you don't want Xinerama (needs the
> > same
> > resolution on every screen!) you also can use it as display :0.1
> > Just ask if you want to do that too.



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