hi

Im using redhat linux 5.1. i tried to download and install the vlc using repository. but after the packages downloaded, many packages were installed few only not installed. the error has came while installing is given below:

Transaction Check Error: file /usr/lib/libavdevice.so.52.1.0 conflicts between attempted installs of ffmpeg-0.5-3.el5.rf and ffmpeg-libs-0.4.9-0.52.20080908.el5
file /usr/lib/libavformat.so.52 conflicts between attempted installs of ffmpeg-0.5-3.el5.rf and ffmpeg-libs-0.4.9-0.52.20080908.el5
file /usr/lib/libavutil.so.49 conflicts between attempted installs of ffmpeg-0.5-3.el5.rf and ffmpeg-libs-0.4.9-0.52.20080908.el5
file /usr/lib/libswscale.so.0 conflicts between attempted installs of ffmpeg-0.5-3.el5.rf and ffmpeg-libs-0.4.9-0.52.20080908.el5
file /usr/lib/vhook/drawtext.so conflicts between attempted installs of ffmpeg-0.5-3.el5.rf and ffmpeg-libs-0.4.9-0.52.20080908.el5
file /usr/lib/vhook/fish.so conflicts between attempted installs of ffmpeg-0.5-3.el5.rf and ffmpeg-libs-0.4.9-0.52.20080908.el5
file /usr/lib/vhook/imlib2.so conflicts between attempted installs of ffmpeg-0.5-3.el5.rf and ffmpeg-libs-0.4.9-0.52.20080908.el5
file /usr/lib/vhook/null.so conflicts between attempted installs of ffmpeg-0.5-3.el5.rf and ffmpeg-libs-0.4.9-0.52.20080908.el5
file /usr/lib/vhook/ppm.so conflicts between attempted installs of ffmpeg-0.5-3.el5.rf and ffmpeg-libs-0.4.9-0.52.20080908.el5
file /usr/lib/vhook/watermark.so conflicts between attempted installs of ffmpeg-0.5-3.el5.rf and ffmpeg-libs-0.4.9-0.52.20080908.el5


please tell me the solution if any one knows.....

Which repository are you using?

Post the results of:

It should give us an idea of what repos you have been mixing. These types of errors are almost always due to mixing incompatible repos.

From vlc...

You can follow the vlc links to install vlc for RHEL 5.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-redhat.html

thorkelljarl

Your link points to the rpmforge which is what the rf in the rpms he is using refers to.

i am using epel.repo, epel-testing.repo ,rpmforge.repo, rpmforge-free-updates.repo, rpmforge-free-updates-testing.repo.

Are you sure you are not confusing rpmforge and rpmfusion on at least some of those? Generally rpmforge does not split free off into its own area, rpmfusion does.

In general using the testing part of a repo(on any repo) is not a good idea. If you have very many testing rpms installed there is no way to tell what is causing the issue.

It really would be better if you just posted the results of

yum repolist