mplayer should not depend on mplayer-nogui

[José Alburquerque]

Binary package hint: mplayer

gmplayer is no longer available in mplayer package because it depends on the mplayer-nogui package. I'm running karmic.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Jun 11 17:50:07 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: mplayer 2:1.0~rc3+svn20090426-1ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.30-8.9-generic
SourcePackage: mplayer
Uname: Linux 2.6.30-8-generic x86_64

[Reinhard Tartler (siretart)]

José Alburquerque <email address hidden> writes:

> Public bug reported:
>
> Binary package hint: mplayer
>
> gmplayer is no longer available in mplayer package because it depends on
> the mplayer-nogui package. I'm running karmic.

parse error.

gmplayer is included in the mplayer package as /usr/bin/gmplayer. it
needs to depend on mplayer-nogui for various reasons.

what is the problem here?

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Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4

[José Alburquerque (jaalburquerque)]

Sorry. The only problem I'm experiencing is that now mplayer is not available in the nautilus menus (i.e. Open with..., etc.) for media files. I'm not sure if it was there before, but now it is not in the "Applications->Sound & Video" menu either. Also, running gmplayer from the command line (without any media file) fails for me with the following:

[06:29][jose@sweety: ~]$ gmplayer
Warning unknown option vo_dxr3_device at line 6
MPlayer UNKNOWN-4.4.0 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.
[skin] file ( /usr/share/mplayer/skins/default/skin ) not found.
Skin not found (default).
[06:29][jose@sweety: ~]$

The blue skin package is installed. The mplayer-skins package is not.

If I install the mplayer-skins package, it starts, but with the attached error window and if I change the skin to blue, it doesn't take.

It's just that none of this was a problem before the change. I'll try to find a way to fix these errors here, but it may be necessary to make sure everything works well otherwise. Thanks.

[José Alburquerque (jaalburquerque)]

One correction: The blue skin does take. The error window still comess up. Again, I'll try to find a way to fix that error.

[José Alburquerque (jaalburquerque)]

And I should say that the blue skin did not take with my old configuration folder (~/.mplayer) in the home folder. If I remove the folder and start from scratch it takes. I'm attaching a gzip of the folder in case you'd like to test it.

[Reinhard Tartler (siretart)]

Please, only one problem at a time. The original reporter requested the mplayer package to no longer depend on mplayer-nogui without properly explaining the problem.

Another issue is the missing or wrong .desktop file for the gnome/kde menu. Yes, that is a bug, but please file a seperate bug for that.

The third issue is about the error message at start. Thanks for the analysis that this is because of user configuration, but again, please file a separate bug for this.

[José Alburquerque (jaalburquerque)]

Okay. I will file separate bug reports for the desktop files and for the configuration. Not having mplayer depend on mplayer-nogui is not exactly what I was worried about. I just didn't quite understand that what's missing is the desktop files. Please feel free to close this bug.

[Reinhard Tartler (siretart)]

on submitters request