So I installed Mandrake 10.1 on a spare computer and I was trying to install Mplayer. But there was an error: Bad gcc version. So I downloaded gcc 4.0.1 and tried to install that but there was another error saying it couldn't build in the source directory. What do I need to do?

8/25/2005 1:11:31 AM

i'm gonna take a guess here and assume you're not sticking to packages made for mandrake....

as with anything linux, you'll be better off sticking to packages compiled and made for your distro. you CAN build pretty much anything from source, but with distros like mandrake, it'll get messy. case in point is trying to build a vanilla kernel on redhat - redhat applies so many redhat-specific patches to thier kernels that it's a very rare case you can manage to have a fully working redhat system with a vanilla kernel (before you apply the redhat-specific patches, of course - if they even apply cleanly to whatever vanilla you're trying to patch against)....that's just one example, but a lot of the more "user-friendly", "we're gonna do something assbackwardsdifferentfromeverybody else" just dont put stuff together to be friendly to people building thier own packages.

that said, i don't use mandrake, so i'm sure someone else can help you with mandrake specific stuff or direct you to some mandrake package repository so you can get your mplayer package...but my recommendation if you want to work with linux at the level you're trying to is to learn more about it and switch to a more low-level friendly distro like slackware.

8/25/2005 1:51:11 AM

it's a known redhat/mandrake issue. I ran redhat years ago and came across it and I think i just upgraded gcc with a freshrpm build, but I really don't remember. Can't help you too much specifically with Mandrake, but I would start looking around for an updated gcc package for it.
http://mplayerhq.hu/~diego/DOCS/HTML/en/gcc-296.html

8/25/2005 2:40:52 AM