Can't build MPlayer

Garrett Cooper youshi10 at u.washington.edu
Wed Apr 4 08:50:07 UTC 2007


Andrew wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> it seems that one of the files required to build MPlayer (namely
> "realplay") is unfetchable. A previous attempt at building it 11 days
> ago had returned the same error. I am attaching the output from
> "make build".
>
> Regards,
> Andrew
>
>
> --------------- BEGIN MAKE BUILD OUTPUT ---------------
> ===>   mplayer-0.99.8_5 depends on executable: realplay - not found
> ===>    Verifying install for realplay in
> /usr/ports/multimedia/linux-realplayer
> ===>  Vulnerability check disabled, database not found
> => RealPlayer-10.0.7.785-20060201.i586.rpm doesn't seem to exist in
> /usr/ports/distfiles/.
> => Attempting to fetch from
> https://helixcommunity.org/download.php/1917/.
> fetch:
> https://helixcommunity.org/download.php/1917/RealPlayer-10.0.7.785-20060201.i586.rpm:
> size mismatch: expected 6650006, actual 0
> => Attempting to fetch from
> ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/.
> fetch:
> ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/RealPlayer-10.0.7.785-20060201.i586.rpm:
> File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
> => Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this
> => port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/ and try again.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/multimedia/linux-realplayer.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/multimedia/mplayer.
> --------------- END MAKE BUILD OUTPUT ---------------
Someone made a note about this approximately a week ~ a week and a half 
ago on the list. I'd search through the archives a bit to find the brief 
thread describing what to do.
-Garrett


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