How-To: Compile and Install SMPlayer 0.6.2 in Debian Lenny

SMPlayer gained a lot of popularity lately due to its rich features and the ability to remember settings and time it was stopped for each movie/video file individualy. So you can close it while watching a movie, and next time you open that movie with SMPlayer it will continue from the time you closed it. SMPlayer is built using the Qt4 libraries.

Debian Lenny comes by default with SMPlayer 0.6.1, but you only need to follow a few easy steps in order to compile the latest 0.6.2 release.



1. Enable the sources repositories
Make sure the /etc/apt/sources.list file has a line which starts with deb-src, like this:

deb-src ftp://ftp.ro.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free

Then update your packages lists as root using apt-get update.

2. Install SMPlayer dependencies
Execute as root:

apt-get build-dep smplayer

3. Download SMPlayer source and uncompress it
Download the source from here then go to the directory where the smplayer-0.6.2.tar.bz2 file is located and uncompress it:

tar -xjf smplayer-0.6.2.tar.bz2

4. Compile and install SMPlayer
To compile the source, issue the following command in the smplayer-0.6.2 directory:

make QMAKE=/usr/share/qt4/bin/qmake

And to install it, execute as root:

make install

The application should now be properly installed in /usr/local/bin/smplayer.

Updated: Aug 25, 2008 (Created: Aug 25, 2008, v0.1)

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