Installing MPlayer via apt

[Andrew McVinnie]

I went to your URL, downloaded all three MPlayer files and tried to 
install them via RPM in the terminal. It did not install that way 
either, it had a crap load of dependancies that failed.

Andrew McVinnie

On Friday, May 23, 2003, at 06:39 AM, Jason Stevens wrote:

> I would like to install MPlayer using apt, but haven't managed to 
> figure
> out the process. The package I want is located at:
> http://ayo.freshrpms.net/yellowdog/3.0/ppc/RPMS.freshrpms
> I have already tried to add this location to my apt source list by
> running (as root) "pico /etc/apt/sources.list" and adding an entry for
> the new location, but it failed to work. Instead, a new file named
> "/etc/apt/sources.list" was created and running "apt-get install
> mplayer" does not find the package.
> Is there an easier way to install the package, or must I do something
> differently to the sources list?
>
>
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