Thomas H. George wrote: > I am trying to run fakeroot debian/rules binary to install mplayer. > The program aborts with the message, " the GUI requires GTK devel > packages (which were not found)" > > My setup is Sarge with XWindows started with gdm but I probably do > not have the whole Gnome package installed as I normally use icewm. I > don't need a lot of bells and whistles as the programs I use: > openoffice, xfig, gimp, cups, pysol and mozilla work fine but I would > like to add mplayer-plugin to watch TV clips.
You can see exactly what packages are required to build mplayer by looking for the line beginning with "Build-Depends:" (and maybe also a line beginning with "Build-Depends-Indep:") in the mplayer-<version>/debian/control file. I'd guess you at least need to install libgtk2.0-dev. But are you aware that Christian Marillat (a Debian developer) has already created unofficial Debian packages of mplayer? As root, add the following lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list: deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ sarge main deb-src ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ sid main then run "apt-get update ; apt-get install mplayer-386 mozilla-mplayer" and you should be all set. (Note: you can install mplayer-586 or mplayer-k6 instead of mplayer-386 to get a version more optimized for your system, depending on your CPU.) regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/ Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
