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author | diego <diego@b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2> | 2002-12-29 15:10:02 +0000 |
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committer | diego <diego@b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2> | 2002-12-29 15:10:02 +0000 |
commit | 7f69df17784d0a7b09aefc08e6e89868565e8e0f (patch) | |
tree | 7f0234ba5fc4769216d30fefdb7b0aae5bd4c0ec /DOCS/documentation.html | |
parent | c8b0ddfe4e1570b83b815a3c9befced24e4d2875 (diff) |
Linux ports section reworked, RPM section added, based on a patch by Alex.
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diff --git a/DOCS/documentation.html b/DOCS/documentation.html index 60af81f301..8af4b5e178 100644 --- a/DOCS/documentation.html +++ b/DOCS/documentation.html @@ -267,7 +267,12 @@ </LI> <LI><A HREF="#ports">6. Ports</A> <UL> - <LI><A HREF="#debian">6.1 Debian packaging</A></LI> + <LI><A HREF="#linux">6.1 Linux</A> + <UL> + <LI><A HREF="#debian">6.1.1 Debian packaging</A></LI> + <LI><A HREF="#rpm">6.1.2 RPM packaging</A></LI> + </UL> + </LI> <LI><A HREF="#bsd">6.2 *BSD</A> <UL> <LI><A HREF="#freebsd">6.2.1 FreeBSD</A></LI> @@ -1533,36 +1538,50 @@ end <H1><A NAME="ports">6. Ports</A></H1> -<H2><A NAME="debian">6.1 Debian packaging</A></H2> +<H2><A NAME="linux">6.1 Linux</A></H2> -<P>To build the package, get the cvs version, or .tgz and uncompress it, - and cd into programs directory:</P> +<P>The main development platform is Linux on x86, altough MPlayer works on many + other Linux ports.</P> -<PRE> - cd main - fakeroot debian/rules binary -</PRE> -<P>(... mplayer detects hardware/software, builds itself and.. ) - dpkg-deb: building package `mplayer' in `../mplayer_0.90-1_i386.deb'.</P> +<H3><A NAME="debian">6.1.1 Debian packaging</A></H3> -<P>And now just become root, and:</P> +<P>To build a Debian package, run the following command in the MPlayer source + directory:</P> <PRE> - dpkg -i ../mplayer_0.90-1_i386.deb as root. + fakeroot debian/rules binary </PRE> -<P>Here's how it looks like:</P> +<P>As root you can then install the <CODE>.deb</CODE> package as usual:</P> <PRE> - eyck@incubus:/src/main$ sudo dpkg -i ../mplayer_0.90-1_i386.deb - Password: - (Reading database ... 26946 files and directories currently installed.) - Preparing to replace mplayer 0.50-1 (using ../mplayer_0.90-1_i386.deb) - Unpacking replacement mplayer ... - Setting up mplayer (0.90-1) ... + dpkg -i ../mplayer_<version>.deb </PRE> +<P>Christian Marillat has been making unofficial Debian MPlayer, MEncoder and + font packages for a while, you can (apt-)get them from his + <A HREF="http://marillat.free.fr/">homepage</A>. These packages are highly + unofficial, however, as Christian made and redistributed these packages when + MPlayer was still not fully GPLed and + <A HREF="users_against_developers.html#binary">binary redistribution</A> + not allowed. Christian ignored requests to stop redistributing his packages, + which caused bad blood with MPlayer developers. Binary redistribution is not + a problem anymore, but we <B>do not support</B> these packages!</P> + + +<H3><A NAME="rpm">6.1.2 RPM packaging</A></H3> + +<P>Dominik Mierzejewski created and maintains official Red Hat RPM packages of + MPlayer. They are available from his + <A HREF="http://www.piorunek.pl/~dominik/linux/pkgs/mplayer/">homepage</A>. + Please read the instructions there and report problems to him, not us.</P> + +<P>There are other RPM versions (SuSE now includes MPlayer in their official + distribution, Mandrake packages are available from the + <A HREF="http://plf.zarb.org/">P.L.F</A>) of MPlayer, but none of them is + officially supported.</P> + <H2><A NAME="bsd">6.2 *BSD</A></H2> |