It appears you are using the debian-multimedia version (assuming from the svn in package name).
On the dmo-discussion mailing list the new policy towards NOT guilding the GUI was discussed recently. > On 11/28/11, Christian Marillat <marillat@???> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> As Debian, I intent to not build the mplayer GUI in the next package. We >> have a lot of fronted for various desktop (KDE or GNOME). So you might want to try specifically installing one of the frontends. Good luck. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111230145333.GB30427@hiro