I haven't used the newest SVN 'snapshot' build I've used the 1.4 code from the MPlayer website. I'm not the world's greatest expert when it comes to compiling, I'll be honest. So, following Oscar's post, I had a look into compiling it from source. Up till now, I've been using 19.10.0, which has been happy with the version of mplayer from the repos (1.2.1). I originally tried installing 20.6.0 - the previous release from norgo - but it kept falling flat on its face with 'Oops! mplayer has encountered a problem.', etc, etc. I, too, am a big fan of SMPlayer I've been using norgo's builds for several years. I've recently finished setting-up a new frugal of 32-bit Xenialpup 7.5 myself. So my newb new question is, 'What does xenialpup 7.5 need to get her done?' Should I be making a deb or a pet? I hunted around for instructions to make a pet from source but maybe I got lost in the high weeds. The instructions in install.txt gives a list of packages to be sure you have installed which I satisfied via PPM and it instructed me to load the devx_xenialppup_7.5.sfs which I did. create_deb.sh: line 15: fakeroot: command not found

create_deb.sh: line 14: fakeroot: command not found Rm: cannot remove 'src/smplayer': No such file or directory Rm: cannot remove 'build-stamp': No such file or directory I read the install.txt I am pretty sure it did what it said to make a deb file.

I downloaded the source for smplayer 21.1.0. I take it the general consensus from Oscar Talks, bigpup, and norgo is that the best way to go is just compile it on my xenialpup? even though I could try upgrading QT4 to QT5 or upgrade mpvplayer.or get a new Mplayer or compile that as well.but the most dependable way to go is compile it from source and learn to compile it, because, welcome to Linux. Thanks for your time and effort messing around with 21.1 everyone!

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