Re: [MPlayer-users] 1 st installation

[Haas Wernfried <w.haas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 11:04:17AM +0200, Andrés Hermida wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi, I'm relatively new to linux and I've downloaded the source with the
> tar.tar extension and I don't know how to unzip it. I've tried tar but it
> doesn't work. When I did it with the X window it produces some directories
> with some unintelligible names. What do I do? Andrés

unpack tar.gz (i guess that's what you meant) with
tar xvjf MPlayer....tar.bz2

then enter MPlayer...dirname/ and follow the instructions in README.
if you are using pre7 you can skip step 1 (Installing FFmpeg libavcodec).

There was a quite nice guide for newbies on installing mplayer by 
Farrell Farahbod, but i could not find it on the url he provided, seems
they are restructuring their website :-/

there are also rpms available for some redhat releases, maybe installing
them is easier for you. 

regards
        wernfried

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