On Tue October 16 2007 11:15:41 am Stan Goodman wrote:
> I did <find -name "mplayer*"> from "/" as root, and turned up nothing
> recognizable.

Try 'locate <string>' as normal user, e.g. in this case 'mplayer':

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> locate mplayer
<... snipped lines 1 thru 35>:
/usr/share/doc/packages/MPlayer/DOCS/man/cs/mplayer.1
/usr/share/doc/packages/MPlayer/DOCS/man/de/mplayer.1
/usr/share/doc/packages/MPlayer/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1
/usr/share/doc/packages/MPlayer/DOCS/man/es/mplayer.1
/usr/share/doc/packages/MPlayer/DOCS/man/fr/mplayer.1
/usr/share/doc/packages/MPlayer/DOCS/man/hu/mplayer.1
/usr/share/doc/packages/MPlayer/DOCS/man/it/mplayer.1
/usr/share/doc/packages/MPlayer/DOCS/man/pl/mplayer.1
/usr/share/doc/packages/MPlayer/DOCS/man/ru/mplayer.1
/usr/share/doc/packages/MPlayer/DOCS/man/zh/mplayer.1

And "DOCS" seems to 'shout' at you ;-)

hth & regards,

Carl

p.s.: you'll want to run 'updatedb' to index newly created/added files or they 
won't be 'located' until the next automatic indexing has taken place.
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