help installing mplayer

quarryman

dammit i managed to this once and managed to accidently shift-delete the bin directory so have to install it again.

I'm trying to install mplayer into my home directory locally. these are tje steps:

./configure

make

make install

configure works fine, it goes off and does its thing. then when i try 'make' i get the following. is there any way to make sure the program will be placed in my home folder?





make[1]: Entering directory `/home/me/Desktop/mplayer install/libdha'
mkdir -p /usr/local/lib
install -m 755 -s -p libdha.so.0.1 /usr/local/lib/libdha.so.0.1
install: cannot create regular file `/usr/local/lib/libdha.so.0.1': Permission denied
make[1]: *** [install] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/me/Desktop/mplayer install/libdha'
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/me/Desktop/mplayer install/vidix'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/me/Desktop/mplayer install/vidix/drivers'
mkdir -p /usr/local/lib/mplayer/vidix
mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/local/lib/mplayer': Permission denied
make[2]: *** [install] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/me/Desktop/mplayer install/vidix/drivers'
make[1]: *** [install] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/me/Desktop/mplayer install/vidix'
make: *** [install] Error 2

dubhthach

Your getting permission denied errors, did you su before running config. after all if your in with your standard account you wouldn't have permission to create "/usr/local/lib/mplayer" etc.

quarryman

no su. i'm not root.

and i won't be. i've done it before. the destination directory ended up being \home\me\mplayer.

Then to run an avi i put it in the bin directory with the mplayer executable (or whatever it is) and then ran:

mplayer film.avi from the shell and it played. no GUI really.

any suggestions?

dubhthach

Awh i think i've noticed something.

you want to put it in your home directory correct?, well you didn't specify that in the ./configure

you need to type the following (or something close)

./configure --prefix=/home/me/mplayer

to get ./configure flags type ./configure --help

dubhthach

It's been awhile since i've compiled mplayer, i tend to use prebuilt versions of it on IRIX (as i don't have mipspro compilers) but to enable a simple gtk+1.2 gui you need to add the following config flag --enable-gui. This will give you a gmplayer executable along with the standard mplayer one.

so your command should look something like this

./configure --prefix=/home/me/mplayer --enable-gui && make install

you don't need to run both "make" and "make install" as calling "make install" will go through the whole build process (if it hasn't been done) and then do the install process.

quarryman

ah yes, worked a treat. thanks a million.

knew i had done it somehow.