RH9 and mplayer .90 problems

[Stug]

Hi, I'm trying to install mplayer for linux with a gui. I've downloaded rpms from freshrpms for rh9, but when i try to install, it tells gives me a long list of dependencies, so I decided to try compiling the source. When I ./configure --enable-gui (which configures it, obviously, so that the GUI will be compiled), it tells me it can't find gtk...well that's odd, seeing as I'm typing this on Gnome...So I don't know what to do there...Next I tried compiling from the source WITHOUT the GUI. This time, it successfully compiled, but when I run "mplayer movie" it gives me no video, just the audio. I've tried telling it to use different drivers using the -vo switch, but to no avail...has anyone successfully gotten mplayer .90 working successfully (preferably w/GUI) on Redhat 9??

 

[Spyro]

Make sure that you have the gtk development libraries installed.

 

[cleverhandle]

It can't find gtk because you lack the development libraries needed for compiling GTK apps. Those libraries are in a separate package, like "gtk-devel", from the runtime files, "gtk". It would be easier to use apt-rpm, found at freshrpm, to handle the dependencies for you rather than try to compile it yourself.

 

[Stug]

Ok, installed gtk-devel and recompiled. it works fine. thanks a lot!

 

[Nothinman]

If the binaries were missing a lot of deps but the source compiled fine you're probably missing a lot of features, no idea if any of them are important to you or not though.

 

[Stug]

Well one thing's for sure: It doesn't have fortune!! Why would any linux distro come without FORTUNE???