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I downloaded mplayer-gui-1.0pre2-1.i386.rpm and tried to install it using installing gui packages and got error that I need it mplayer-skin.... and I said OOOOOOOOKKKKKKKKKK,, I went online and downloaded mplayer-skin-default-1.0-2.noarch.rpm...I tried to install it using install packages gui and now, I got error saying that I need it the mplayer file above....wtf, is there a way to install both at the same time where it doesn't ask me about the other....
I think yum is the tool that will also download dependencies for Fedora (Is that your distro?). Using wildcards for rpm just allows multiple rpms to be installed from a local directory without worrying about which order they need to be installed in.
Yeah, something like yum will really, really, help with this, as an ongoing solution. You will see this over and over again. However, in this case you are really close, You only need mplayer-common, then use the wild card thing and rpm will figure out what has to be installed first, second, etc.
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