lance wrote 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 i dl d gccNUMBER and libgccNUMBER but i still get the same error message when i try rpm rebuild or recompile i do this as root i dl d as root also thanks for the help any more idea what s going on i tried to just rpm rebuild mplayer NUMBER frNUMBER src rpm then i get mplayer NUMBER frNUMBER src rpm no such file or directory _______________________________________________ rpm list mailing list rpm list URL URL _______________________________________________ rpm list mailing list rpm list URL URL 