On Sunday 09 Nov 2003 9:19 pm, Merlin Zener wrote: > Hi, > I know I'm not the first to have problems with dependencies, but it's > the first time for me and I've been unable to find a page that tells me > actually what to do in this case. > > I'm trying to install Mplayer. > I downloaded mplayer-gui-1.0pre2-1.i386.rpm and double-clicked on it. > and Kpackage reported the following: > error: failed dependencies: > mplayer-skin is needed by mplayer-gui-1.0pre2-1 > mplayer-common = 1.0pre2 is needed by mplayer-gui-1.0pre2-1 > libpng.so.2 is needed by mplayer-gui-1.0pre2-1 > RESULT=1 > > so I went googling and found the first two files. > [Oh btw what's up with the whole program being 1.8M but the SKIN IS OVER > 4M???] > > mplayer-common was the first one to finish downloading, so I > double-clicked on it and got: > error: failed dependencies: > mplayer = 0.92 is needed by mplayer-common-0.92-1 > RESULT=1 > > so now it seems I've got two programs saying they need each other, but > neither will install first... > What should I do next? > > TIA for your help... > > :) > > -- > Merlin Zener Kpackage does not resolve dependencies. So if you use it you will have to download and install all the dependencies. An easier way is to get mplayer-gui-0.92-0.1plf.i586.rpm from PLF. ( http://plf.zarb.org/ ) I think you are using Mandrake 9.0 aren't you? They have a version there for Mandrake 9.0.
Now to make sure you do not get dependency problems go here http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php and follow the instructions to declare a urpmi source for plf (Hint:- Many of the servers are quite slow. Club-Internet is the best I have found) You can now just go to your Mandrake Software install gui type mplayer-gui in the box and everything will install nicely. If you have already defined a PLF source in the past, and yet you cannot find the mplayer version you want, then you need to update your sources. urpmi.update -a in a root terminal will do that for you. derek -- ---------------------------------- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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