On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 11:33 -0700, oldman 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? > > > > > Not much help, but I found the same problem. Nothing changed in > mplayer lately, so it might be the new firefox? I think I didn't see > the problem before that one. Keep an eye out for a new mplayerplug-in, > maybe in sourceforge. > > Scott Go to: http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_5_installation_notes.html for instaructions on this question and others. -- Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
