make sure you rebuild as root and you re in the directory that you downloaded the file also it might complain of a few dependencies but you can get these at URL except for gccNUMBER which you can find on your red hat cd red hat ftp or URL after you rebuild the source rpm it should install a binary rpm in usr src redhat rpms iNUMBER with all dependencies met install mplayer with rpm ivh mplayer NUMBER frNUMBER rpm and you should be good to go one last thing you will need the winNUMBER codecs i found them on google create a directory usr lib winNUMBER and place the codecs in there good luck lance on thu NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER at NUMBER NUMBER rob bains wrote hello i just installed redhat NUMBER NUMBER and i think i have everything working properly anyway i want to install mplayer because i heard it can play quicktime movs i apt get source mplayer and dl d it to usr src i tried to just rpm rebuild mplayer NUMBER frNUMBER src rpm then i get mplayer NUMBER frNUMBER src rpm no such file or directory any help or a link to some document would be appreciated thanks rob _______________________________________________ rpm list mailing list rpm list URL URL _______________________________________________ rpm list mailing list rpm list URL URL 