I haven't really been following this thread so sorry I've I'm way off
base here. But I did a yum update a few days ago which did a mplayer
upgrade and it hasn't worked since. I'm on fedora core btw.

On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 05:13, der.hans wrote:
> Am 16. Dec, 2003 schwätzte Deepak Saxena so:
> 
> > I still have not mastered this whole apt-get process and am trying to
> > figure out what to do at this point. I'm running knoppix 3.2 with
> > a customized sources file (attached) and trying to install mplayer
> > and I get the following. The problem seems pretty simple...I need
> > to update to newer versions of the libraries. The question is,
> > how do I do this, and how do I do it in such a way that it does
> > not break any other app that depends on these libraries?
> 
> See cafod.
> 
> https://www.LuftHans.com/unix/
> 
> I think I finally agree with Derek and recommend using upgrade rather than
> dist-upgrade. In your particular case I think that specifically should be
> the best way to go.
> 
> Use '-u' to see what upgrade or dist-upgrade is going to install/remove.
> 
> Also, look at www.apt-get.org and www.backports.org to see if there's a
> package of mplayer that'll work for what you already have installed.
> 
> ciao,
> 
> der.hans
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