mplayer-skins (and other mplayer packages) lack the default skin

[AleksanderAdamowski]

Binary package hint: mplayer-skins

I'm running Kubuntu 6.06.

I've noticed that if I install mplayer, it won't run unless launched from a terminal.

I've noticed that gmplayer always returns the following error and then exits right upon launch:

[skin] file ( /usr/share/mplayer/Skin/default/skin ) not found.
Skin not found (default).

The /usr/share/mplayer/Skin/default directory is empty.

After I've copied the contents of the "mini" skin to this directory, gmplayer started worling correctly.

Here are the package versions that I'm using:

$ dpkg -l | grep mplayer
ii kmplayer-base 0.9.1.99+0.9.2-rc1-0ubuntu1 Base files for KMPlayer
ii kmplayer-konq-plugins 0.9.1.99+0.9.2-rc1-0ubuntu1 KMPlayer plugin for KHTML/Konqueror
ii mozilla-mplayer 3.17-1ubuntu1 MPlayer-Plugin for Mozilla
ii mplayer 0.99+1.0pre7try2+cvs20060117-0ubuntu8 The Ultimate Movie Player For Linux
ii mplayer-586 0.99+1.0pre7try2+cvs20060117-0ubuntu8 The Ultimate Movie Player For Linux (dummy p
ii mplayer-skins 2-6 Skins for the Ubuntu mplayer Package

[Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Thanks in advance.

[Ryan Kavanagh (ryanakca)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

[AleksanderAdamowski (aadamowski)]

No need to reopen, I didn't experience this bug in later Ubuntu releases.