[CentOS] installing 32 bit vlc on Centos 5.5??

Dave Stevens geek at uniserve.com
Mon Oct 11 05:58:51 UTC 2010


Quoting Scott Robbins <scottro at nyc.rr.com>:

> On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 10:36:19PM -0700, Dave Stevens wrote:
>> I'm in yum dependency hell using epel, rpmforge and rpmfusion repos to
>> install vlc on 32 bit Centos 5.5. Anyone have a better idea? Doesn't
>> really have to be vlc I just want to be able to play a dvd and Movie
>> Player complains about missing plugins without saying what they are.
>>
> Is movieplayer mplayer?

I don't think so I think it's Totem

  If not, that's what I'd suggest, it's always
> handled everything I've thrown at it--I install it from rpmforge.
>
> I also have rpmforge's vlc, (and rpm -qR |wc -l shows 140 dependencies),
> compared to mplayer's 84.
>
> I would strongly recommend using priorities.

ok, will do

>
> If you give a sample of the sort of dependency error you're getting,
> someone might be better able to help.
>

good idea, will have to wait until tomorrow now.

Thanks

d

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