Error creating mplayer .deb package...

[BarnacleJack]

I was following what apparently is the only howto out there from http://www.princessleia.com/MPlayer.html. I made it all the way to the final step of running

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DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="--disable-rutime-cpudetection --enable-gui --disable-trc --enable-live --with-livelibdir=/usr/local/lib/live==enable -real --with-reallibdir=/usr/src/mplayer/rp9codecs/" fakeroot debian/rules binary

It errors out stating the debian/rules binary is not found. I'm currently logged in as root so I can't imagine it being a PATH issue.

/usr/bin/fakeroot: line 150: debian/rules: No such file or directory

The above is the exact message I see returned from the command. Now, I've been trying to find an answer to this issue but I am guessing everyone just compiles and installs it from source without building a package for later use. I cant' seem to find any info on this issue. Googling the error gives me 3 non-helpful pages. I tried searching here and came across a site that linked me to this page.. http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint ... ld.en.html.

After reading through it all I found alot of information and learned some things but it still didn't help me get past t his issue. I'm hoping someone out here can point out a step or two this Debian nub might have forgotten.

[jobezone]

Why not use the packages from http://debian.video.free.fr/ ? Follow the instructions in that site to add the repository source line for you specific Debian (Sarge, testing, or unstable).
This is the only other repository I use besides Debian's, and I've never had problems with it.

[dawgie]

Have you tried using checkinstall to build the package? It does most of the work for you.