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hi all.. i am trying to install mplayer from the rpm package..and i get these results..
warning: mplayer-1.0-0.14.pre6a.1.fc3.fr.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, keyID e42d547b
error: Failed dependencies:
libXvMCW.so.1 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.14.pre6a.1.fc3.fr.i386
libaa.so.1 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.14.pre6a.1.fc3.fr.i386
libdvdread.so.3 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.14.pre6a.1.fc3.fr.i386
libfaad.so.0 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.14.pre6a.1.fc3.fr.i386
libfribidi.so.0 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.14.pre6a.1.fc3.fr.i386
liblirc_client.so.0 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.14.pre6a.1.fc3.fr.i386
liblzo.so.1 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.14.pre6a.1.fc3.fr.i386
libmad.so.0 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.14.pre6a.1.fc3.fr.i386
libmp3lame.so.0 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.14.pre6a.1.fc3.fr.i386
libpostproc = 1.0-0.14.pre6a.1.fc3.fr is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.14.pre6a.1.fc3.fr.i386
libpostproc.so.0 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.14.pre6a.1.fc3.fr.i386
libxmms.so.1 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.14.pre6a.1.fc3.fr.i386
libxvidcore.so.4 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.14.pre6a.1.fc3.fr.i386
mplayer-fonts is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.14.pre6a.1.fc3.fr.i386
when you've yum or apt-get installed, all you've to do is to type:
yum install mplayer
or
apt-get install mplayer
and all dependencies, codecs, fonts and default gui will be downloaded from a server near you. Taking care of dependencies by hand and one by one is a thing from the last century with so many nice tools available for Linux as apt-get, yast, urpmi, apt-get, emerge...
root@ip-058 name]# yum install mplayer
Setting up Install Process
Setting up Repo: base
repomd.xml 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
Setting up Repo: updates-released
repomd.xml 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
base : ################################################## 2622/2622
updates-re: ################################################## 794/794
No Match for argument mplayer
Nothing to do
You have not configured extra yum repostories. Do a google search for DAG, Freshrpms, Livna and Newrpms as well as fedoraproject.org. They all provide extra packages for Fedora and there are instructions on how to setup yum or apt sources. Personally I think you are better off using the fedoraprojet.org, dag and freshrpms repositories because they are a lot more reliable than the others.
for yum's output problem listed above, I would download the mplayer rpm from www.rpmfind.net and then I would use
yum install <the complete name of the mplayer rpm>
it should work. That's what I did each time I used yum.
And of course the command should be run from the directory where the mplayer rpm has been downloaded to.
the problem with the
Code:
yum install mplayer
above
is that yum cannot find the mplayer argument, the name isn't right, if one writes the complete name of the mplayer rpm it should work just fine.
i have the same problem with dependencies. After using "yum install mplayer-vidix-ATI-Radeon-1.0pre5-2.i386.rpm" (I have downloaded that rpm previously), it downloaded (almost) all the dependencies and then I got following error message:
Error: missing dep: liblirc_client.so.0 for pkg mplayer
is it a problem with yum? I use yum.conf from fedorafaq.
Originally posted by djionel82 for yum's output problem listed above, I would download the mplayer rpm from www.rpmfind.net and then I would use
yum install <the complete name of the mplayer rpm>
it should work. That's what I did each time I used yum.
And of course the command should be run from the directory where the mplayer rpm has been downloaded to.
the problem with the
Code:
yum install mplayer
above
is that yum cannot find the mplayer argument, the name isn't right, if one writes the complete name of the mplayer rpm it should work just fine.
Sorry, but you are wrong. You must be thinking about the rpm command. To install a rpm, you do, type the hole name of the package and have run (or specify) the path to the application. eg:
rpm -ivh /home/user/temp/mplayer1.0xxx.rpm
With yum or apt-get, only the application name is necessary _and_ it will download the application from the net, handling the dependencies.
apt-get install mplayer
The version it will download and install is the one available on the repositories specified on the apt.conf file.
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