On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 17:39, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am Sa, den 17.01.2004 schrieb chris clarke um 23:29: > > On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 16:04, Wayne Steenburg wrote: > > > On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 14:39, chris clarke wrote: > > > > Hi Everyone, > > > > > > > > I'm having some problems getting mplayer to install. I installed it > > > > on another Fedora machine about 2 months ago, no problem. But now, no > > > > luck :) > > > > > > > > I run the command "yum install mplayer" or "yum install mplayer*" and I > > > > get the same error message for both... > > > > > > > > .....identical dependency loop exceeded > > > > package mplayer needs libpostproc = 0:0.92-0.lvn.1.1 (not provideded) > > > > > > > > Anyone know a way around this? > > > > > > > > Chris Clarke > > > > > > It sounds like you don't have libpostproc on your system. To check for this do a: > > > > > > rpm -q libpostproc > > > > > > If it says the package is not found or if the version number is below > > > .92-0 You need to install a newer version. I googled on "libpostproc > > > Fedora rpm". It returned 219 results. I hope this helps. > > > > > > Wayne Steenburg > > > > > I ran rpm -q libpostproc and got this as a result > > > > libpostproc-1.0-0.5.pre2.20031107.fr > > > > So it looks like it's installed and up to date. Any idea how to > > convince yum it's there? > > > > Chris Clarke > > Install the mplayer package by freshrpms.net. Mixing the livna.org > repository and the freshrpms.net one leads to your problem. > > Alexander > > > -- > Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany > PGP key valid: made 13.07.1999 > PGP fingerprint: 2307 88FD 2D41 038E 7416 14CD E197 6E88 ED69 5653 > I tried installing the rpm's from freshrpms.net but I got a whole bunch of dependency errors. So I did a yum remove libpostproc followed by yum install mplayer* and everything worked fine... Chris Clarke
