[mythtv-users] OT - can't run mplayer

[James Pifer]

Darren,

Thanks, that worked. Also had to create one for libpostproc.so.0. It
plays now. 

James

On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 09:04, Darren Vincent Hart wrote:
> I have had .debs that don't create all the necessary symlinks for shared
> libraries.  Simply make the symlink yourself:
> 
> $cd /usr/lib
> $ln -s libxvidcore.so.2.1 libxvidcore.so.2
> $ln -s libxvidcore.so.2 libxvidcore.so
> 
> IIRC ldconfig should be doing that automatically, but...  I think you'll
> find the above works.
> 
> Darren
> 
> On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 06:13, James Pifer wrote:
> > Sorry for the OT, but searching google and archives didn't show much. I
> > loaded mplayer using: apt-get install mplayer. 
> > 
> > It seemed to load fine, but I can't start mplayer. I get an error:
> > [root at mythtv root]# mplayer
> > mplayer: error while loading shared libraries: libxvidcore.so.2: cannot
> > open shared object file: No such file or directory
> > [root at mythtv root]#
> > 
> > The xvidcore package got installed, and there is a libxvidcore.so.2.1 in
> > the /usr/lib directory, but not libxvidcore.so.2. 
> > 
> > Any suggestions?
> > Thanks,
> > James
> > 
> > 
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