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Ravenlost
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 Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 6:56 pm Post subject: Mplayer / Mplayerplug-in / Firefox on AMD64 |
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Hey! Just bought a new PC using an Athlon64 CPU.
It took me while to gather all the info I needed in order to reinstall Gentoo for AMD64. For the most part, I didn't have any issues except for 1 thing:
The hole mplayer, mplayerplug-in and firefox stuff! I wasn't able to find any definite answers has to "how to do it".
After much reading and foolling around I was able to set it all up with the following procedures which I've wrote:
Ok, here's what I've done:
| Code: | - emerge mozilla-firefox-bin (version 1.0.7 at the time)
- emerge mplayer-bin (version 1.0.20060217 at the time)
* mplayer-bin should emerge win32codecs as well.
If not, then emerge it yourself prior to mplayer (mine was version 20050412 at the time)
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A few "bugs" to fix:
| Code: | - rm /usr/bin/gmplayer-bin
- rm /usr/bin/mplayer-bin
- ln /opt/mplayer-bin/bin/mplayer-bin /usr/bin/mplayer
- ln /opt/mplayer-bin/bin/mplayer-bin /usr/bin/gmplayer
* notices theses are HARD links!
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If I didn't do that, my gmplayer (GUI) just wouldn't work!
Now, here's another "bug" fix:
| Code: | - ln -s /usr/lib32/real /usr/lib64/real
- ln -s /usr/lib32/win32 /usr/lib64/win32
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If I didn't do this, well it mplayer just didn't load the win32codecs, cause it's searching for them /usr/lib/win32, which really points to /usr/lib64/... by
default!
Finally, last thing: mplayerplug-in. Obviously, if you try to emerge the one currently in portage (v.3.21 at the time), it wants to emeger mplayer as well!
Plus, because we want a 32 bit plugin (cause firefox is in 32 bit for compatibility with flash, etc.), well we got to have it compiled has 32 bits...
The fix: http://sh.nu/download/ebuilds/mplayer/
The guy just seems to have prebuilt the plugin for 32 bit and has created an ebuild for it!
In short, I just followed :
| Code: | cd $PORTDIR_OVERLAY
wget -O - http://sh.nu/mplayer/mplayerplug-in-bin-3.11_portdir.tar.bz2 | tar xvfj -
cd $PKGDIR/All (most likely /usr/portage/packages/All...YMMV)
wget http://sh.nu/mplayer/mplayerplug-in-bin-3.11.tbz2
emerge -vKOa mplayerplug-in-bin
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And it worked fine! I just confirmed the plugin got installed under: /usr/lib32/nsbrowser/plugins
If they ain't there, have a look for: /opt/netscape/plugins/mplayerplug-in*
Found them? Then symlink them (or copy) to /usr/lib32/nsbrowser/plugins
Again, this is because it installs the plugin under /usr/lib/... which points to lib64. We're running firefox 32 bit here, so it's gotta be into the lib32 folder!
Hope this can help anyone out there!
Now the questions:
1) are theses "bugs" gonna fix about mplayer-bin and the win32codecs ?
2) if we've got a mplayer-bin especially made for AMD64 systems, why isn't there one for mplayerplug-in-bin ???
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| Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 12:52 pm Post subject: |
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Hey Raven
I'm just posting some feedback for you: your solution (library links) for playing win32 codecs saved my day. Thanks! |
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| Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 1:36 am Post subject: |
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| good work! will definitely come in handy - maybe do a wiki ? |
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Ravenlost
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| Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 8:27 pm Post subject: |
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Glad to be of some help  |
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shazam75
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| Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 11:42 pm Post subject: |
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hey,
under which directory do you actually put the links in ?
eg you have | Code: | | ln -s /usr/lib32/win32 /usr/lib64/win32 |
what directory are you in when you execute that ln command ?
thanks
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fakeid
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| Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 7:20 am Post subject: |
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good jod
it works for me
thx |
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luker0
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| Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 3:30 pm Post subject: |
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| shazam75 wrote: | hey,
under which directory do you actually put the links in ?
eg you have | Code: | | ln -s /usr/lib32/win32 /usr/lib64/win32 |
what directory are you in when you execute that ln command ?
thanks
shelton. |
It doesn't matter what directory you are in, since fully qualified paths are being used in that command.
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gonEH
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| Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 7:06 am Post subject: Re: Mplayer / Mplayerplug-in / Firefox on AMD64 |
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| Ravenlost wrote: |
| Code: | - rm /usr/bin/gmplayer-bin
- rm /usr/bin/mplayer-bin
- ln /opt/mplayer-bin/bin/mplayer-bin /usr/bin/mplayer
- ln /opt/mplayer-bin/bin/mplayer-bin /usr/bin/gmplayer
* notices theses are HARD links!
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If I didn't do that, my gmplayer (GUI) just wouldn't work!
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It just fixed mplayer-bin-1.0.20060302 |
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| Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 5:16 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for this wonderful post! I can now get MPlayer with GUI, it plays wmv files and mplayerplug.in is detected by Firefox!
But...for some reason, when I am trying to watch trailers on e.g. apple.com/trailers, it stops loading the movies at 99%...or it loads completely and then stops.
I have tested other sites as well, with the same result...
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| Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 1:41 pm Post subject: |
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Hi ravenlost and all
Been having alot of problems with mplayer. I followed your 'howto', thank you but there are a couple of things.
1 Is it best to unmerge mplayer 32 bit I presume? I did unmerge mine.
2 I got stuck on
cd $PKGDIR/All (most likely /usr/portage/packages/All...YMMV)
wget http://sh.nu/mplayer/mplayerplug-in-bin-3.11.tbz2
emerge -vKOa mplayerplug-in-bin
I have /usr/portage but haven't got the packages dir or All. Could you expand a bit here for a newbie?
and finally
3 when I launch gmplayer from the command line, mplayer starts up with gui but I get the message 'NEW FACE FAILED. Maybe the font path is wrong. Please supply the text font line file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf). Anyway I was able to watch an avi file ok.
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zaphyr
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| Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 1:44 pm Post subject: |
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| lmcogs wrote: |
I have /usr/portage but haven't got the packages dir or All. Could you expand a bit here for a newbie? |
You can just make the folders that you dont have 
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| Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 12:51 pm Post subject: Media types play OK but firefox crashes when I leave the pag |
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I followed the instructions to download and install mplayerplug-in-bin. I can now play from within firefox a wide variety of multi-media files but with one (important) problem. When I am playing (of when I have played) a multimedia file via the mplayerplug-in and I want to leave the page, all my firefox instances crash.
Any suggestions on how to cure this problem?
Many thanks in advance, kdvgent |
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Ravenlost
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| Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 1:22 pm Post subject: |
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| lmcogs wrote: | | Is it best to unmerge mplayer 32 bit I presume? I did unmerge mine. |
You should actualy KEEP mplayer 32 bit! You cannot use the mplayer in 64 bit with the win32codecs and the mplayerplug-in.
And has for the $PKGDIR/All folder, it's just like zaphyr said. Just :
| Code: | | mkdir -p /usr/portage/packages/All |
Form you NEW FACE FAILED error, well I don't know. Guess you'll need to google for that one my friend.
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Ravenlost
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| Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 1:25 pm Post subject: Re: Media types play OK but firefox crashes when I leave the |
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| kdvgent wrote: | | I followed the instructions to download and install mplayerplug-in-bin. I can now play from within firefox a wide variety of multi-media files but with one (important) problem. When I am playing (of when I have played) a multimedia file via the mplayerplug-in and I want to leave the page, all my firefox instances crash. |
You do have mozilla-firefox-bin right?
I'd try just re-merging them. Could be a conflict somehow between plugins or something. Dunno. |
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luker0
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| Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 1:43 am Post subject: |
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When trying to load firefox-bin I get the following errors and no plugin:
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LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /opt/netscape/plugins/mplayerplug-in-wmp.so [/opt/netscape/plugins/mplayerplug-in-wmp.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory]
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This is for each of the files in the plugins directory. Any ideas?
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troebel
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| Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 1:00 pm Post subject: |
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First of all, I would like to thank the topic starter for solving this problem
I've been looking for this for a while, and now it works!!
| luker0 wrote: | When trying to load firefox-bin I get the following errors and no plugin:
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LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /opt/netscape/plugins/mplayerplug-in-wmp.so [/opt/netscape/plugins/mplayerplug-in-wmp.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory]
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This is for each of the files in the plugins directory. Any ideas? |
looks like there's nothing in your /opt/netscape/plugins/ directory, have you checked already??
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luker0
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| Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 7:06 pm Post subject: |
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| troebel wrote: |
looks like there's nothing in your /opt/netscape/plugins/ directory, have you checked already?? |
All the files are there, as well as a couple of other places too. I'll double check permissions tonight, but I remember them being world readable.
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Ravenlost
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| luker0 wrote: | | troebel wrote: |
looks like there's nothing in your /opt/netscape/plugins/ directory, have you checked already?? |
All the files are there, as well as a couple of other places too. I'll double check permissions tonight, but I remember them being world readable. |
Try this: (create a backup of the implicated folders prior!!)
See that all your plugins are physically in: /opt/netscape/plugins/
Then, empty all the content of both folders (again, make a backup somewhere!!)
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rm -rf /usr/lib32/nsbrowser/plugins/*
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rm -rf /usr/lib64/nsbrowser/plugins/*
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Then just symlink all the plugins in /opt/netscape/plugins/ to each lib folder like so:
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ln -s /opt/netscape/plugins/mplayerplug-in.so /usr/lib32/nsbrowser/plugins/mplayerplug-in.so
ln -s /opt/netscape/plugins/mplayerplug-in.so /usr/lib64/nsbrowser/plugins/mplayerplug-in.so
and so on...
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* Just watch out for particular plugins which ARE NOT under /opt/netscape/plugins! Like my java plugins is actually in /opt/blackdown-jre-1.4.2.03/plugin/amd64/mozilla/libjavaplugin_oji.so
and /opt/java32/plugin/i386/mozilla/libjavaplugin_oji.so for the lib32 folder!
See what I mean? Maybe stuff just isn't copied in the proper places.. so you'll reset all of that!
But hey! I ain't responsible if you delete something you waren't supposed to 
In theory, I don't think you need them under the lib64 folder.. cause we're all in 32 bits here! But lets just make sure with a big band aid! 
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| Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 10:03 pm Post subject: |
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Shouldn't the files in /opt/netscape/plugins/mplayerplug-in* be linked into /usr/lib32/nsbrowser/plugins/ instead of /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins/. On an AMD64 system /usr/lib/ is just a symlink for /usr/lib64/
On my system these files are installed when using the package: | Code: | >>> Merging net-www/mplayerplug-in-bin-3.11 to /
--- /etc/
>>> /etc/mplayerplug-in.conf
--- /opt/
--- /opt/netscape/
--- /opt/netscape/plugins/
>>> /opt/netscape/plugins/mplayerplug-in-gmp.xpt
>>> /opt/netscape/plugins/mplayerplug-in-gmp.so
>>> /opt/netscape/plugins/mplayerplug-in-qt.xpt
>>> /opt/netscape/plugins/mplayerplug-in-rm.xpt
>>> /opt/netscape/plugins/mplayerplug-in-wmp.so
>>> /opt/netscape/plugins/mplayerplug-in.so
>>> /opt/netscape/plugins/mplayerplug-in-wmp.xpt
>>> /opt/netscape/plugins/mplayerplug-in-qt.so
>>> /opt/netscape/plugins/mplayerplug-in-rm.so
>>> /opt/netscape/plugins/mplayerplug-in.xpt
--- /usr/
--- /usr/lib/
--- /usr/lib/nsbrowser/
--- /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins/
>>> /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins/mplayerplug-in-gmp.xpt -> /opt/netscape/plugins/mplayerplug-in-gmp.xpt
>>> /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins/mplayerplug-in-gmp.so -> /opt/netscape/plugins/mplayerplug-in-gmp.so
>>> /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins/mplayerplug-in-qt.xpt -> /opt/netscape/plugins/mplayerplug-in-qt.xpt
>>> /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins/mplayerplug-in-rm.xpt -> /opt/netscape/plugins/mplayerplug-in-rm.xpt
>>> /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins/mplayerplug-in-wmp.so -> /opt/netscape/plugins/mplayerplug-in-wmp.so
>>> /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins/mplayerplug-in.so -> /opt/netscape/plugins/mplayerplug-in.so
>>> /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins/mplayerplug-in-wmp.xpt -> /opt/netscape/plugins/mplayerplug-in-wmp.xpt
>>> /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins/mplayerplug-in-qt.so -> /opt/netscape/plugins/mplayerplug-in-qt.so
>>> /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins/mplayerplug-in-rm.so -> /opt/netscape/plugins/mplayerplug-in-rm.so
>>> /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins/mplayerplug-in.xpt -> /opt/netscape/plugins/mplayerplug-in.xpt
--- /usr/share/
--- /usr/share/doc/
>>> /usr/share/doc/mplayerplug-in-bin-3.11/
>>> /usr/share/doc/mplayerplug-in-bin-3.11/javascript.txt.gz
>>> /usr/share/doc/mplayerplug-in-bin-3.11/locking_rules.txt.gz
>>> /usr/share/doc/mplayerplug-in-bin-3.11/README.gz
>>> /usr/share/doc/mplayerplug-in-bin-3.11/INSTALL.gz
>>> /usr/share/doc/mplayerplug-in-bin-3.11/ChangeLog.gz |
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gnomen
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| Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 4:32 pm Post subject: |
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The mplayer-bin tricks works for me. Thanks a lot!
But when trying to load the mplayerplug-in I get the errors below. Any idea what I am doing wrong?
| Code: | LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib32/nsbrowser/plugins/mplayerplug-in-gmp.so
[/usr/lib32/nsbrowser/plugins/mplayerplug-in-gmp.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64]
LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib32/nsbrowser/plugins/mplayerplug-in-qt.so
[/usr/lib32/nsbrowser/plugins/mplayerplug-in-qt.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64]
LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib32/nsbrowser/plugins/mplayerplug-in-rm.so
[/usr/lib32/nsbrowser/plugins/mplayerplug-in-rm.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64]
LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib32/nsbrowser/plugins/mplayerplug-in-wmp.so
[/usr/lib32/nsbrowser/plugins/mplayerplug-in-wmp.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64]
LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib32/nsbrowser/plugins/mplayerplug-in.so
[/usr/lib32/nsbrowser/plugins/mplayerplug-in.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64] |
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Joffer
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| Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 10:35 pm Post subject: |
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| gnomen wrote: | The mplayer-bin tricks works for me. Thanks a lot!
But when trying to load the mplayerplug-in I get the errors below. Any idea what I am doing wrong?
| Code: | LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib32/nsbrowser/plugins/mplayerplug-in-gmp.so
[/usr/lib32/nsbrowser/plugins/mplayerplug-in-gmp.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64]
LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib32/nsbrowser/plugins/mplayerplug-in-qt.so
[/usr/lib32/nsbrowser/plugins/mplayerplug-in-qt.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64]
LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib32/nsbrowser/plugins/mplayerplug-in-rm.so
[/usr/lib32/nsbrowser/plugins/mplayerplug-in-rm.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64]
LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib32/nsbrowser/plugins/mplayerplug-in-wmp.so
[/usr/lib32/nsbrowser/plugins/mplayerplug-in-wmp.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64]
LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib32/nsbrowser/plugins/mplayerplug-in.so
[/usr/lib32/nsbrowser/plugins/mplayerplug-in.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64] |
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I think you forgot to use the "use package only" (-K) so you ended up compiling the mplayerplug-in-3.11 instead of just installing the already compiled files in the package... The errormsg says you have compiled a 64-bit version if I'm not mistaken.
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gnomen
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| Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 4:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Joffer wrote: | | I think you forgot to use the "use package only" (-K) so you ended up compiling the mplayerplug-in-3.11 instead of just installing the already compiled files in the package... The errormsg says you have compiled a 64-bit version if I'm not mistaken. |
You are right of course. I screwed up with the pkgdir and the -K option. It seems to work anyway though. Thanks for the quick answer! Takk skal du ha |
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Joffer
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| Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 4:20 pm Post subject: |
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| gnomen wrote: | | Joffer wrote: | | I think you forgot to use the "use package only" (-K) so you ended up compiling the mplayerplug-in-3.11 instead of just installing the already compiled files in the package... The errormsg says you have compiled a 64-bit version if I'm not mistaken. |
You are right of course. I screwed up with the pkgdir and the -K option. It seems to work anyway though. Thanks for the quick answer! Takk skal du ha |
Bare hyggelig
Anyway, I've made a mini-HOWTO about mplayerplug-in and Opera/Firefox-bin which perhaps does a cleaner install with less fuzz.. based on a lot of info from this thread..
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