Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[dvw86]

I downloaded the mplayer and xmms DotPups and ran the installers. All the files appear to be there but the applications do not run.

[GuestToo]

they make symlinks in /opt ... if you don't have /opt, it won't work (most Puppy's come with /opt ... if you have an option 2 hard drive install, you can just create /opt)

also, it's the wrappers in my-application/bin that make the symlinks ... you can not run the executables in the program folder directly

mplayer and gmplayer make the symlinks and runs the mplayer executable ... it sends program output to /dev/null, because it was filling up xerrs.txt ... mplayer2 also executes mplayer, but you can see output like help and error messages

try opening an rxvt window and typing
mplayer2 name-of-file.avi
(or whatever your movie file is called), to see what error messages you get

[dvw86]

Thanks, that fixed it!

[Kal]

Thanks Guest Too, I forgot about adding /opt.
Thanks again, Kal

[GuestToo]

i should have added a line to add /opt if it wasn't there ... i thought all Puppy's had /opt
it would just need this line:

[ -d /opt ] || mkdir /opt

[Bancobusto]

Hey, I'm a little late in respondong but thanks alot! I couldn't figure it out - XmmS would work when running off of the live CD, but not when I did a HD install...
Anyways, that helps!

Cheers