To Build Gnome-MPlayer on Debian 5.0 Lenny

After compiling MPlayer on Debian 3.1 Sarge, I looked for a decent frontend to MPlayer. I found two frontends, SMplayer and Gnome-Mplayer. I chose to try Gnome-MPlayer because I am a GNOME person. However, Gnome-mplayer is not yet packaged for Debian 5.0 Lenny and previous releases. So I had to build Gnome-mplayer on my own. I downloaded the following packages in preparation for building Gnome-mplayer.

• gcc
  
• libasound2-dev
  
• libcurl4-gnutls-dev
  
• libdbus-glib-1-dev
  
• libdiscid0-dev
  
• libgpod-dev
  
• libgtk2.0-dev
  
• libmusicbrainz3-dev
  
• libneon26-gnutls-dev
  
• make

I downloaded Gnome-MPlayer source from the following location:

• http://code.google.com/p/gnome-mplayer/downloads/list

For Debian Lenny, download version 0.9.6. Versions higher than that requires latest GTK releases. I unpacked the Gnome-MPlayer source.

tar xzvf gnome-mplayer-0.9.6.tar.gz
cd gnome-mplayer-0.9.6

Then, I configured gnome-mplayer compilation:

./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --with-libgpod --with-libmusicbrainz3

Then, I initiated compilation:

make
make install

The following files are installed on the system after compiling Gnome-mplayer:

/usr/bin/gnome-mplayer
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mplayer.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mplayer.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mplayer.mo
/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mplayer.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mplayer.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mplayer.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mplayer.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mplayer.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mplayer.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mplayer.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mplayer.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mplayer.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mplayer.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mplayer.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mplayer.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mplayer.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mplayer.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_HK/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mplayer.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mplayer.mo
/usr/share/applications/gnome-mplayer.desktop
/usr/share/doc/gnome-mplayer/README
/usr/share/doc/gnome-mplayer/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/gnome-mplayer/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/gnome-mplayer/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/gnome-mplayer/INSTALL
/usr/share/doc/gnome-mplayer/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/gnome-mplayer/keyboard_shortcuts.txt
/usr/share/doc/gnome-mplayer/dbus.txt
/usr/share/doc/gnome-mplayer/plugin-interaction.txt
/usr/share/pixmaps/gnome-mplayer.png
/etc/gconf/schemas/gnome-mplayer.schemas