[SOLVED] Mandriva One 2010 Spring -- Can’t Install libmp3lame.so.0

Lucky Joestar · 12-25-2010, 09:18 AM

I’m new to Mandriva. I tried downloading a libmp3lame.so RPM from Penguin Liberation Front and installing it, but the installation lurched. It keeps saying that it’s unable to install it. Looking in /usr/bin/, sure enough, the file isn’t there. (That’s where Audacity tried looking for it.) RPMdrake is no big help either. It shows that a Lame package is installed, but the relevant file isn’t among the listed files in the packages, and I tried hunting through other packages for the relevant file with no luck. What am I doing wrong?

andrewthomas · 12-25-2010, 10:22 PM

The file should be in the /usr/lib or /usr/lib64 directory not /usr/bin.

Code:

andrew@andrew-asus:/usr/lib64$ ls -al libmp3lame.so*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     19 Nov  1 18:49 libmp3lame.so -> libmp3lame.so.0.0.0*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     19 Nov  1 18:49 libmp3lame.so.0 -> libmp3lame.so.0.0.0*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 290792 Nov  1 18:49 libmp3lame.so.0.0.0*

knudfl · 12-26-2010, 12:07 AM

Welcome to LQ.

The package(s) liblame* : The PLF repo ..
http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/?language=en
Just click : Add PLF medias

# urpmq --fuzzy liblame
.......will reply : liblame-devel liblame-static-devel liblame0

# urpmi liblame0 : Will provide /usr/lib/libmp3lame.so.0

..

Lucky Joestar · 12-29-2010, 10:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by andrewthomas

The file should be in the /usr/lib or /usr/lib64 directory not /usr/bin.

You’re right. That was a typo on my part. It’s not in /usr/lib.

Also, I tried to urpmi the file in a console, as knudfl suggested, only to be told there was no such package. ;_;

knudfl · 12-30-2010, 03:59 AM

Quote:

I tried to urpmi the file ...

# urpmi <file> : Sorry, not possible.

# urpmi liblame0 : Will work.
( I got version 3.98.4-1plf2010.1 installed.)

Are you sure you got the PLF repo installed ?
http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/?language=en

ls /etc/urpmi/mediacnf.d/ : PLF Mandriva-2010.1<arch>

..

Lucky Joestar · 12-30-2010, 09:50 AM

Thank you immensely, knudfl! Adding the PLF media did the trick, and I was able to install the codec. I just checked Audacity, and it found the newly installed lame codec.