Just a follow up though I've noticed that I'm way off the thread. yum
upgrade of mplayer worked great for me. and the mplayer-plugin for
mozilla works better for me than crossover plugin or plugger or just
about anything else I've tried so far. 


On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 08:57, Carl Parrish wrote:
> 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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