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04-16-2009, 01:13 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jan 2009
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VLC Media Player
i want to install VLC media player in mandriva linux 2009. i have tried the rpm packages from rpm.pbone.net but the rpm installation is not completed. i have downloaded the vlc from www.videolan.org but unable to install it. can anyone help me? i have mandriva 2009.0
Last edited by Sarath1245; 04-16-2009 at 01:45 AM.
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04-16-2009, 01:32 AM
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Registered: Apr 2009
Distribution: Slackware-12.2
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What distro are you on?
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04-16-2009, 01:33 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Mar 2006
Location: Sydney, Australia
Distribution: Fedora, CentOS, OpenSuse, Slack, Gentoo, Debian, Arch, PCBSD
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Probably mandriva 2009.
Did you follow these instructions http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-mandriva.html ?
Edit - sorry - just noticed how old the instructions are.
Last edited by billymayday; 04-16-2009 at 01:35 AM.
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04-16-2009, 01:39 AM
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Registered: Jul 2004
Location: France
Distribution: Arch Linux
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Why didn't you just install VLC from the Mandriva repositories? They work fine.
Did you configure your repositories using Easy-Urpmi? Failing to do so could explain that you did not find VLC in the repositories. See here:
http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/
Yves. |
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04-16-2009, 01:57 AM
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Haha. Linux is making me loose sleep.. |
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04-16-2009, 02:07 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Mar 2006
Location: Sydney, Australia
Distribution: Fedora, CentOS, OpenSuse, Slack, Gentoo, Debian, Arch, PCBSD
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That's OK -I simply couldn't resist - not trying to be rude!
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04-16-2009, 01:20 PM
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Distribution: Slackware-12.2
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You gave me a good laugh. Has the OP's issue been resolved?
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04-16-2009, 01:52 PM
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Registered: Mar 2009
Location: Hermosa Beach
Distribution: Mandriva KDE 4
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Quote:
Originally Posted by theYinYeti
Why didn't you just install VLC from the Mandriva repositories? They work fine.
Did you configure your repositories using Easy-Urpmi? Failing to do so could explain that you did not find VLC in the repositories. See here:
http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/
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I am running Mandriva KDE 4 and the Mandriva packages & PLF packages of VLC do NOT work in KDE 4.
The Gui will not load. |
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04-17-2009, 01:54 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jul 2004
Location: France
Distribution: Arch Linux
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Do you have scim-bridge-qt installed?
I had this problem recently with VLC, and found (on Internet) that scim-bridge-qt was the cause, even if not used (just by being installed). The solution was to use UIM instead of SCIM, at least for QT, and uninstall scim-bridge-qt.
Yves.
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04-17-2009, 01:04 PM
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Member
Registered: Mar 2009
Location: Hermosa Beach
Distribution: Mandriva KDE 4
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Quote:
Originally Posted by theYinYeti
Do you have scim-bridge-qt installed?
I had this problem recently with VLC, and found (on Internet) that scim-bridge-qt was the cause, even if not used (just by being installed). The solution was to use UIM instead of SCIM, at least for QT, and uninstall scim-bridge-qt.
Yves.
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I have the IME SCIM installed. Should I URPE SCIm and then Try to run VLC? |
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04-17-2009, 02:00 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jul 2004
Location: France
Distribution: Arch Linux
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SCIM itself is not the problem, just packages the name of which start with scim-bridge-qt. You can run for example:
urpme scim-bridge-qt3 scim-bridge-qt4
And then if later you find you miss some input methods in QT apps, then install the UIM equivalent, whatever that is (I'm new to those input methods; I did not need one until I started learning Japanese).
Yves.
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