VLC dependencies

apolo · 08-11-2003, 01:42 PM

Was up all...

I'm trying to install VLC media player in Red-Hat 9 and I installed 20 of the 22 dependencies that it needed but I cant seem to resolve the last 2.

error: Failed dependencies:
libasound.so.2 is needed by vlc-0.6.1-1
libasound.so.2(ALSA_0.9) is needed by vlc-0.6.1-1

I installed ALSA and I do have the libasound.so.2 file in /usr/lib but it still gives me the missing dep's. HELP!!!! LOL.

Later,
Apolo.

jailbait · 08-11-2003, 03:53 PM

libasound.so.2 is a link to some other file. Check to make sure that the target file really exists and libasound.so.2 is not pointing to a non-existant file.

apolo · 08-11-2003, 06:35 PM

Yup, the file its linking to is in the same directory, it's...

/usr/lib/libasound.so.2.0.0

this file is not linking to nothing else and the libasound.so.2.0.0 file is there. Any other ideas why it's not working?

jailbait · 08-11-2003, 07:41 PM

Are you installing from source or rpm?

If you are installing from source then /usr/lib may not be in /etc/ld.so.conf.

If you are installing from rpm then libasound may not be in the rpm data base. Try:
rpm -qi libasound

apolo · 08-11-2003, 09:06 PM

I was installing from rpm's, and your right

# rpm -qi libasound
package libasound is not installed

I installed alsa drivers, I reas somewhere that it has libasound, i installed that from binaries, could that be the issue? i have no idea what to do now... Please Help put me on the right track...

jailbait · 08-11-2003, 09:19 PM

When rpm checks whether dependencies are installed it does not check the whole system. It just looks in the rpm database. So if you know that a package is installed, but was not installed using rpm, then you can use the rpm --nodeps option. --nodeps says to install the rpm package regardless of what the rpm program thinks might be missing.

You can put yourself to sleep by reading:
man rpm

apolo · 08-11-2003, 10:28 PM

cool!!!!!

Works perfect, I just had to use the --nodeps flag...

You rock jailbate....