HOWTO: 32bit mplayer on amd64 (wmv9)

[mlomker]

Seen this one before?

root@mlomkernote:/home/mlomker/downloads # mplayer32
mplayer32: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I've seen the error before but the file is there.

root@mlomkernote:/home/mlomker/downloads # locate libstdc++.so.5
/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5
/usr/lib/vmware/lib/libstdc++.so.5
/usr/lib/vmware/lib/libstdc++.so.5/libstdc++.so.5
/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5.0.7
/home/src/vmware-wk5/lib/lib/libstdc++.so.5
/home/src/vmware-wk5/lib/lib/libstdc++.so.5/libstdc++.so.5
root@mlomkernote:/home/mlomker/downloads #

I wonder if it is related to the VMware install? Could someone that has it working give me the output from:

root@mlomkernote:/home/mlomker/downloads # ls -l /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 18 2005-09-08 13:46 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 -> libstdc++.so.5.0.7
root@mlomkernote:/home/mlomker/downloads # ls -l /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5.0.7
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 832872 2005-02-10 17:14 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5.0.

[Conq]

Ahh, I forgot a dependancy, you need to
"sudo apt-get install ia32-libs-openoffice.org"

The other libs there are 64-bit libs, the 32-bit libs reside in either /lib32 or in /usr/lib32
I'll update the howto.

[mlomker]

Ahh, I forgot a dependancy, you need to
"sudo apt-get install ia32-libs-openoffice.org"

That changed the error message to a different file, which is progress.

root@mlomkernote:/etc/init.d # mplayer32
mplayer32: error while loading shared libraries: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

That file also exists and (according to apt-file) was included in ia32-libs. The openoffice problem is because I removed it...wonder if the others are because I run Kubuntu?

EDIT: Nevermind. I had to do an apt-get install --reinstall ia32-libs for some reason.

[gk_jam]

Followed the howto, but when I tried to run mplayer32 I got this error:

mplayer32: error while loading shared libraries: libdrm.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I did make sure to install the libs that were detailed. Any idea what this error is about and how to fix?

[Conq]

Have you tried to simply install the library libdrm1 (apt-get install libdrm1)?

[domenic]

hi, i'm a complete newbie, and would really like to play some sort of media files on my new ubuntu sys!!

I've a few questions. firstly if i install mplayer32 using dpkg should it appear in a menu somewhere?

since i couldn't find it anywhere else i had a look in synaptic for it, and it said it was installed. i tried to reinstall it but it came up with an error saying it couldn't find the .deb file in file:///home/./

now it is possible that i may have moved the file since i first installed it.

Any suggestions? If i wanted to uninstall and try again could i use synaptic or would i have to use dpkg and if so how??

any help would be greatly appreciated!!

[chihuahuaskowbo]

Have you tried to simply install the library libdrm1 (apt-get install libdrm1)?

I've got the same problem, but libdrm1 was already installed.
I also noticed that I don't have a /usr/lib/win32 folder. Could be connected somehow?
Any help appreciated.

[Buenaventura Durruti]

root@stallman:/home/fmmarzoa# mplayer32
mplayer32: error while loading shared libraries: libpng12.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
root@stallman:/home/fmmarzoa# ls -la /usr/lib/libpng12.so.*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2006-01-02 23:45 /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 -> libpng12.so.0.1.2.8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 161032 2005-08-22 18:52 /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0.1.2.8
root@stallman:/home/fmmarzoa# ldconfig
root@stallman:/home/fmmarzoa# mplayer32
mplayer32: error while loading shared libraries: libpng12.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

The libraries seems to be right there. Unfortunatly, I cannot use ltrace over mplayer32 due architecture incompatiblities to do a deeper debug, but if someone knows what's happen without further information...

[Buenaventura Durruti]

The previous problem was solved just installing ia32-libs-gtk, for some reason I didn't see that package before but it appear after an apt update and then I could install it. Anyway I've another library missing problem now:

root@stallman:/etc# mplayer32
mplayer32: error while loading shared libraries: libdrm.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I think I've now installed everything, so I do not figure out what's the problem.

[Buenaventura Durruti]

Ok, things can be done this way (I got these ideas from this thread on skype):

Download a 32bit version of libdrm, such as this:

libdrm1_1.0.3-2_i386.deb

Extract its files, this can be done with dpkg like:

dpkg -x libdrm1_1.0.3-2_i386.deb .

(The last dot means that files will be extracted in current directory).

After that, you should have an 'usr' subdirectory below your current one. So if you do:

#ls usr/lib/

from your current directory, it should show:

libdrm.so.1 libdrm.so.1.0.0

Ok, now we'll move these files to our /usr/lib32 directory, in which mplayer32 expects find them, to do that:

mv usr/lib/* /usr/lib32

Now if you do a:

ls -l /usr/lib32/libdrm*

You should get:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2006-01-03 23:37 /usr/lib32/libdrm.so.1 -> libdrm.so.1.0.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23032 2005-08-24 12:18 /usr/lib32/libdrm.so.1.0.0

Now just run ldconfig to update library cache:

ldconfig

And the problem with libdrm should be history.

(Of course, the majority of these actions needs root priviledges, so you should need to log as root or use sudo in each step.)