Looks like you are trying to install a Cooker package. Cooker is the *development* thread of the Mandrake distro. It can vary considerably from the released distro. Installing Cooker packages will very quickly lead you into dependency hell and can easily break your system.
Newbies should keep away from them. derek On Wednesday 27 Nov 2002 1:10 am, Wei Wang wrote: > I am trying to install libalsa2-0.9.0 from binary rpm. Dependency fail > reads: error: failed dependencies: > libalsa-data is needed by libalsa2-0.9.0-0.8rc2mdk > libasound.so.1 is needed by libarts2-2.2.1-5mdk > libasound.so.1 is needed by kdelibs-2.2.1-5mdk > libasound.so.1 is needed by kdelibs-sound-2.2.1-5mdk > libasound.so.1 is needed by libSDL1.2-1.2.2-1mdk > (and 13 other similar dependency fails for libasound.so.1 is needed by ...) > RESULT=1 > > libalsa-data-0.9.0 rpm install gives dependency fail like this: > error: failed dependencies: > libalsa2 = 0.9.0 is needed by libalsa-data-0.9.0-0.10rc6mdk > RESULT=1 > > As far as the circular dependency between libalsa2 and libalsa-data, maybe > I could solve it by install the two rpm together? Like "rpm -i libalsa2 > libalsa-data"? Haven't tried that coz I think the libasound.so.1 dependency > problem would still jump out. What confused me here is that I have > libasound.so.1 in usr/lib/ provided by alsa-lib0.5.10-2mdk.rpm. And also > the libarts2, kdelibs, kdelibs-sound, libSDL1.2 etc are alreay installed in > my system. Why does the system report libasound.so.1 is needed by these > already installed packages? > > > > > ps. the other libalsa2 dependency fail includes: > libasound.so.1 is needed by kdebase-2.2.1-7mdk > libasound.so.1 is needed by libsmpeg0.4-0.4.4-3mdk > libasound.so.1 is needed by libSDL_image1.2-1.2.0-2mdk > libasound.so.1 is needed by libao2-0.8.0-3mdk > libasound.so.1 is needed by arts-2.2.1-5mdk > libasound.so.1 is needed by kdemultimedia-2.2.1-2mdk > libasound.so.1 is needed by libSDL_mixer1.2-1.2.0-3mdk > libasound.so.1 is needed by libSDL_net1.2-1.2.2-1mdk > libasound.so.1 is needed by mures-0.4-2mdk > libasound.so.1 is needed by xmms-smpeg-0.3.4-4mdk > libasound.so.1 is needed by nethack_falconseye-3.3.1_jtp_1.9-3mdk > libasound.so.1 is needed by rocksndiamonds-2.0.0-4mdk > libasound.so.1 is needed by xmms-more-vis-plugins-1.4.0-3mdk
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