# HG changeset patch # User diego # Date 1041174602 0 # Node ID db4a1b1254cb06974b84f13400de64ee0434d55c # Parent 81dbd28ef7c0d2d79d9e266da7130bfa4227cd8f Linux ports section reworked, RPM section added, based on a patch by Alex. diff -r 81dbd28ef7c0 -r db4a1b1254cb DOCS/documentation.html --- a/DOCS/documentation.html Sun Dec 29 14:59:23 2002 +0000 +++ b/DOCS/documentation.html Sun Dec 29 15:10:02 2002 +0000 @@ -267,7 +267,12 @@
The main development platform is Linux on x86, altough MPlayer works on many + other Linux ports.
-To build the package, get the cvs version, or .tgz and uncompress it, - and cd into programs directory:
+ +To build a Debian package, run the following command in the MPlayer source + directory:
- cd main fakeroot debian/rules binary-
(... mplayer detects hardware/software, builds itself and.. ) - dpkg-deb: building package `mplayer' in `../mplayer_0.90-1_i386.deb'.
- -And now just become root, and:
+As root you can then install the .deb
package as usual:
- dpkg -i ../mplayer_0.90-1_i386.deb as root. + dpkg -i ../mplayer_<version>.deb-
Here's how it looks like:
+Christian Marillat has been making unofficial Debian MPlayer, MEncoder and + font packages for a while, you can (apt-)get them from his + homepage. These packages are highly + unofficial, however, as Christian made and redistributed these packages when + MPlayer was still not fully GPLed and + binary redistribution + not allowed. Christian ignored requests to stop redistributing his packages, + which caused bad blood with MPlayer developers. Binary redistribution is not + a problem anymore, but we do not support these packages!
+ -- eyck@incubus:/src/main$ sudo dpkg -i ../mplayer_0.90-1_i386.deb - Password: - (Reading database ... 26946 files and directories currently installed.) - Preparing to replace mplayer 0.50-1 (using ../mplayer_0.90-1_i386.deb) - Unpacking replacement mplayer ... - Setting up mplayer (0.90-1) ... -+
Dominik Mierzejewski created and maintains official Red Hat RPM packages of + MPlayer. They are available from his + homepage. + Please read the instructions there and report problems to him, not us.
+ +There are other RPM versions (SuSE now includes MPlayer in their official + distribution, Mandrake packages are available from the + P.L.F) of MPlayer, but none of them is + officially supported.