Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 10:22:31AM +0000, John Rowe wrote:
> 
>>Does anybody know of a good movie player for SL4? I'm have a request
>>from one of my astronomers and when I ask "what format?" he says all of
>>them! I have xanim and trying to install an mplayer RPM gives a millions
>>complaints about missing libraries and so on.
> 
> 
> http://atrpms.net/name/mplayer/ works on RHEL4 and clones. It will
> need some further dependencies, though, e.g. using apt on an
> RHEL4/x86_64 box yields (using apt from the multilib branch from
> Panu):
> 
> # apt-get install mplayer
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following extra packages will be installed:
>   aalib faad2 lame libdvdcss libdvdread libmad0 libpostproc libxvidcore4
>   lirc-lib lzo mplayer-fonts
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   aalib faad2 lame libdvdcss libdvdread libmad0 libpostproc libxvidcore4
>   lirc-lib lzo mplayer mplayer-fonts
> 0 upgraded, 12 newly installed, 0 removed and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 12.3MB of archives.
> After unpacking 34.7MB of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
> Abort.

yum will work as well

   yum --enablerepo=atrpms install mplayer

Troy
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