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Everything seems to be installed:

$ apt list mplayer\*
Listing... Done
mplayer-doc/focal,focal 2:1.3.0-8build5 all
mplayer-gui/focal,now 2:1.3.0-8build5 amd64 [installed]
mplayer-skin-blue/focal,focal 1.11-2 all
mplayer-skins/focal,focal,now 3.2build1 all [installed,automatic]
mplayer/focal,now 2:1.3.0-8build5 amd64 [installed,automatic]

but when I run gmplayer, I see "Error in skin config file at line 6":

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That file actually doesn't exist (There is one called main.png though)

MWB
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This is an old issue that I thought had been resolved? However I can confirm that it occurs on my 20.04 system as well. The fix is easy enough and is drawn from the linked bug report:

First install imagemagick:

sudo apt-get install imagemagick

Then convert all the png files in the 'default' skin directory to the correct format. Change to this directory as follows:

cd /usr/share/mplayer/skins/default

And then run the following loop:

for FILE in *.png
do
sudo convert $FILE -define png:format=png24 $FILE
done

This resolved the issue on my system and should also work on yours...

andrew.46
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