Gene Heskett wrote:
Gene Heskett wrote:
Ian Malone wrote:
Gene Heskett wrote:
A day or so back i hit a web site that needed mplayer, which went
thru the motions of downloading the file, but when it tried to play
it, stopped immediately, several times.
Today I thought I'd see if yumex could help and told it to install a
few more skins and other mplayer accessories.
It starts process the queue, and fails because it can't find
mplayer, but if I goto the removal screen, mplayer shows as
installed and I can't uninstall it because of all the other
dependencies.
rpm says this version is installed:
[root@diablo ~]# rpm -q mplayer
mplayer-1.0pre8-0.6.20060406
but yumex reports this
Missing Dependency: mplayer = 1.0-0.39.20060412.lvn5 is needed by
package mplayer-gui
So obviously thats a livna item, but its not shown as being available.
Which magic twanger do I need folks?
At a guess you've installed from incompatible repos, I think the
Livna packages are not, in general, compatible with freshrpms,
atrpms et al (mplayer-1.0pre8-0.6.20060406 sounds like atrpms
or freshrpms). So either rpm -e mplayer, or use yum's
--disablerepo switch to ignore livna and install mplayer-gui from
the same repo as mplayer.
There are not, nor has there been, any freshrpms or atrpms even listed
in the repo lists. The only oddball is crash-hat. I'll try disabling
livna though, just for effects. Thanks.
Based on that, I tried this since yum was complaining about the mplayer
installed being newer than the lvn5 version:
First I dl'd the livna version with FF, saving it locally, then:
[root@diablo src]# rpm -Uvh --oldpackage
mplayer-1.0-0.39.20060412.lvn5.i386.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
libdvdread.so.3 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.39.20060412.lvn5.i386
libenca.so.0 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.39.20060412.lvn5.i386
liblirc_client.so.0 is needed by
mplayer-1.0-0.39.20060412.lvn5.i386
liblzo.so.1 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.39.20060412.lvn5.i386
libopenal.so.0 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.39.20060412.lvn5.i386
mplayer-fonts >= 1.1-0.lvn.2 is needed by
mplayer-1.0-0.39.20060412.lvn5.i386
So I'm well on the way to dependency hell, and mplayer isn't working.
I've NDI where the installed mplayer that doesn't work came from, and
short of an FC5 reinstall, apparently no way to fix it. But all trails
will be checked as suggested by folks here.
yum.log.1 shows:
Apr 22 04:54:34 Installed: mplayer.i386 5:1.0pre8-0.6.20060406
Apr 22 04:54:35 Installed: mplayerplug-in.i386 3.21-1.lvn5
Apr 23 18:31:28 Updated: mplayerplug-in.i386 3.25-1.lvn5
Now, I think yumex and its automatic dependency stuff could probably
resolve this IF I could get it to show me the mplayer.x.lvn5 as being
available, but I cannot because it thinks the installed one is newer.
So I'm apparently damned if i do, and damned if i don't.
But I was able to get yumex to fix it, by letting it delete the
dependencies too, and then reinstall it all from livna. Hopefully this
till get it back among the living.
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Cheers, Gene
