VLC dependencies
 

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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.

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.

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?

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

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...

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

cool!!!!!

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

You rock jailbate....