Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho!

I had the same problem, but (probably) with a different program. I don't
remember which program, but there were "inter-dependencies" between two or
three sets of files, and none of them would install because they all
needed each other. What a pain!

I finally got fed up and "told rpm" to load all of the programs - and the
darned thing went on and installed everything just as smooth as could be!

Sorry, I only had this one experience, and I don't normally use rpm from
the command line, so I can't give you the details on what I did - but
instead of trying to install A and then install B, I gave the command
sequence to install A B - and it worked!

Let us know if it works for you!

Good luck!

LeRoy


> 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
> Piano, Synthesizer
> Thailand.
>
> registered Linux user number 328618




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