mdg Posted March 17, 2003 Report Share Posted March 17, 2003 I'm trying to install Mplayer following illogic-al's tutorial http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php...ghlight=mplayer, but I get this error at the unpacking stage: $ tar xvzf MPlayer-0.90rc4.tar.bz2 gzip: stdin: not in gzip format tar: Child returned status 1 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors What's this mean? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ump Posted March 17, 2003 Report Share Posted March 17, 2003 It has been compressed using Bzip2 not gzip I think you nedd to do bunzip2 filename | tar -xvf please don't hold me to the exact syntax but I think that is close then again I could be off by a mile check both info bzip2 and man bzip2 to be sure hope this helps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtweidmann Posted March 17, 2003 Report Share Posted March 17, 2003 You can always use Konqueror to de-compress archives if your (like me) feeling lazy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronin Posted March 17, 2003 Report Share Posted March 17, 2003 Means its not a gzip file but bzipped. Go tar -xjvf filename to extract it. But I have to ask why are you doing it that way and not using urpmi? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdg Posted March 17, 2003 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2003 My urpmi was not working right(update source problems). I downloaded the mplayer rpm plus some other deps and I'll give it a try tomorrow. Thanks for the help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronin Posted March 18, 2003 Report Share Posted March 18, 2003 My urpmi was not working right(update source problems). I downloaded the mplayer rpm plus some other deps and I'll give it a try tomorrow. Thanks for the help Check here http://speculation.org/garrick/urpmifaq.txt and here http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php for urpmi and setting up sources. If you have your sources set up properly you shouldn't have to get the app or any deps. In this case just open a term, su, enter root pass then urpmi mplayer. And bobs your uncle it should install. :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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