hi there,

thanks for your quick replies.

I have just been onto here: http://maemo.org/packages/package_in...svn20091221-4/

Downloaded the .deb almal file and put it into my data directory on my n900 attempted to run it to which i am getting an error saying:
unable to install Mplayer movie player' (command line only). some application packages required for the installation are missing.

What should i do about that?

In xterminal i have entered 'apt-get update' to which it told me fialed to update all the reps i have added which i htink is down to the fact the phone has no internet on it.

i downloaded the file from here: http://maemo.org/downloads/product/Maemo5/mplayer/ which is mplayer.install and i put this into my data dir from 'my computer' via windows so its now in the main nokia n900 folder on the phone.
However when i go to x terminal and then type apt-get install mplayer it tells me it cannot find the file on E: or something.

any other recommendations?

thanks so much again for your help.