Installing mplayer on kubuntu

By jeltsch on Thu, 03/29/2007 - 22:16
  1. edit /etc/apt/sources.list and uncomment the lines for universe (remove the "" in front of the lines)
  2. add a line similar to universe see the example: http://fi.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy multiverse
  3. download any extra codecs: wget http://www2.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/all-20050412.tar.bz2
  4. unpack the codecs: tar -xvjf all-20050412.tar.bz2

    5. as sudo:

  5. create the directory for the codecs: mkdir /usr/lib/win32
  6. move the "codecs" to the new directory: mv all-20050412/* /usr/lib/win32
  7. install mplayer: apt-get install mplayer-586
  8. install mplayer fonts: apt-get install mplayer-fonts