I've been trying to get some good software for dvd ripping, but everytime I try I have issues due to transcode. I am begining to hate that program.

I'm running Mandriva 2006 installed from the dvd.

When I try to urpmi transcode it tells me it can't b/c it's missing libdps.so.1. According to rpmfind.net, that's in various x11 devel packages. But when I try to put them in, it says there are conflicts b/c I have newer packages.

Where am I going wrong? Or can someone just email the blasted library so I can manually stick it in? I'm about ready to kill on this one.

Thanks for any help!!

Tymanthius

well, you can't just install 1 x11 package. try to urpmi all x11 packages in one go, or manually find a mandrake repository and manually download all the new x11 packages in the repository and then do a batch install of all the packages. or update your slocate database and look for libdsp on your system. If it's there's output, then you have the file, it's just not named the way transcode is looking for it. create a symlink to the file on your computer with the name of the library transcode is looking for.

ln -s /usr/X11r6/lib/libdsp.so.0.X.X /usr/X11r6/libdsp.so.1

I use urpmi, so it grabs dependencies (if that's what you mean by downloading more than 1 X11 package). And I have tried EVERY package listed for Mandrake/Mandriva in rpmfind.net that listed libdps.

I've often done symlinking from libXXX.so.7 to libXXX.so.3 when a program expected an older version or what have you. So I looked. And looked, and looked for any dps library. No luck.

On as side note, I've not been real happy w/ Mandriva 2006, so I'm redownloading 2005 and I think I'm going to wipe & reload. I did something wierd when I updated last time, and my system has been twitchy since. So I'll fix it all in an easy/lazy way - reload. And I just make sure I put transcode in right at load time.

But I'm still looking for a good answer. I don't like it when a PC tells me 'no'.