Keith Antoine wrote: > On Fri, 12 Jul 2002 03:14, Matthew Carpenter wrote: > >>This is because libpng.so.2 is listed as an RPM dependency, but there is >>no RPM which claims to provide it. That is where you have to do a >>"--nodeps" and is one of the problems with RPM. This is part of the >>advantage to using Checkinstall when installing from source. If you >>compiled and installed libpng.so.2 with CheckInstall, all you should >>(theoretically) need to do is alter the "Provides" line to include the >>filename libpng.so.2 and you should be all set to install RPM's with deps >>for it. > > > I'll have to remember that one, but it is MPlayer thats not finding libpng.
For Mplayer, if you run "./configure --help" you'll see these lines: --with-extraincdir=DIR extra headers (png, dvb, mad, sdl, css, ...) in DIR --with-extralibdir=DIR extra library files (png, SDL, ...) in DIR use them to fix your mess. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo: http://netllama.ipfox.com 7:40pm up 86 days, 2:26, 3 users, load average: 0.06, 0.20, 0.45 _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
