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carpenter

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Registered: 2024-04-21

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why mplayer exists in my OS?

I use arch + XFCE, I didn't install mplayer, I know parole player belongs to XFCE,  but why mplayer exists in my OS?

is that because I have ever installed some Malware software ?

mesaprotector

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Registered: 2024-03-03

Posts: 198

Re: why mplayer exists in my OS?

Almost certainly not malware. You should run "pacman -Qi mplayer" to see why it was installed. If it says "installed as a dependency for another package", then look here: https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/mplayer/ and see if any of the "required by" packages ring a bell.

mpan

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Re: why mplayer exists in my OS?

Hello. I don’t see how you made connection between mplayer and malware.

You may use pactree from package pacman-contrib. To show a dependency tree listing all packages which depend on mplayer:

pactree -r mplayer

Last edited by mpan (2024-05-16 09:09:18)

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carpenter

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Registered: 2024-04-21

Posts: 14

Re: why mplayer exists in my OS?

Almost certainly not malware. You should run "pacman -Qi mplayer" to see why it was installed. If it says "installed as a dependency for another package", then look here: https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/mplayer/ and see if any of the "required by" packages ring a bell.

thanks, it helps me a lot, may be mplayer is include in xfce

carpenter

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Registered: 2024-04-21

Posts: 14

Re: why mplayer exists in my OS?

Hello. I don’t see how you made connection between mplayer and malware.

You may use pactree from package pacman-contrib. To show a dependency tree listing all packages which depend on mplayer:

pactree -r mplayer

thanks, now I got the pactree trick