Re: MPlayer 0.92-4 and SuSE 9.0

On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 17:45:38 -0500
"Jose J. Cintron" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Just installed SuSE 9.0 and when I try to install MPlayer I get a 
> message saying that libsmbclient.so.0 is needed.  2 questions come to
> mind
> 
> 1. Why does Mplayer need smbclient?
> 2. I already have libsmbclient3 installed, what is it looking for?
> 
> I even tried creating a sym link to libsmbclient3.so.0 to no avail.
> 
> Any help will be appreciated.
>

Two options:
1. use the --nodeps flag (this will produce dependency warnings of yast2
each time you start it)
2. install mplayer from source, you'll have better performance

Regards,
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