[CentOS] strange missing dependency message from daily yum update

[vladislav rusanov]

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Richard E Miles wrote:
> I am getting a missing dependency message for
> libx264.so.54 is needed by package mplayer. The yum check-update for packages doesn't even show mplayer is to be updated. That library is in /us/bin on my system and when I run the mplayer that I have that's allready installed it runs fine. A ldd on mplayer shows it is referring to the correct /usr/bin/libx264.so.254.so.54.
> Why is yum failing to do the daily yum update?
> 
This is because you are going to update libx264.so.54 with newer
version, but mplayer requiers exactly this(not newer).
Try with
yum -x libx264.so.54 update

Regards! :)
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