Hey, folks,
a co-worker raves that vlc is the bestestplaysthemostformats media player there is, including being able to resize videos. I see it's only over on repoforge for CentOS, but trying to install it at home (I'm running 5.8, 32-bit), it wants about 30 or more dependencies, and one or two of them, of course, have conflicts.
Has anyone installed it in a 5.x environment? If so, what did you do?
mark
I think you may want to look at getting it from repo like rpmforge
http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/RPMForge
might want to make sure if you want to start using a third party repo that you install priorities and understand how it works ;)
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 2:23 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Hey, folks,
a co-worker raves that vlc is the bestestplaysthemostformats media player there is, including being able to resize videos. I see it's only over on repoforge for CentOS, but trying to install it at home (I'm running 5.8, 32-bit), it wants about 30 or more dependencies, and one or two of them, of course, have conflicts.
Has anyone installed it in a 5.x environment? If so, what did you do?
mark
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Tom,
Please don't top post.
Tom Bishop wrote:
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 2:23 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
a co-worker raves that vlc is the bestestplaysthemostformats media player there is, including being able to resize videos. I see it's only over on repoforge for CentOS, but trying to install it at home (I'm running 5.8, 32-bit), it wants about 30 or more dependencies, and one or two of them, of course, have conflicts.
Has anyone installed it in a 5.x environment? If so, what did you do?
I think you may want to look at getting it from repo like rpmforge
http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/RPMForge
might want to make sure if you want to start using a third party repo that you install priorities and understand how it works ;)
I think you didn't read all of what I asked: none of the std. repos for CentOS have it (nor for 6.2); it seems to be at repoforge, yes, I do know how to add another repo, and the problem is the dependencies of dependencies.
I was *hoping* that either a) someone had a workaround to let me install it, or b) had another repo source that might have fewer dependencies.
mark
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 3:00 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
I was *hoping* that either a) someone had a workaround to let me install it, or b) had another repo source that might have fewer dependencies.
On a 5.x box with rpmforge repo installed but disabled, I did a: yum --enablerepo=rpmforge install vlc and downloaded/installed 43 packages, no conflicts. I keep epel disabled on this one too, maybe that is conflict - or something already installed from there.
Les Mikesell wrote:
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 3:00 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
I was *hoping* that either a) someone had a workaround to let me install it, or b) had another repo source that might have fewer dependencies.
On a 5.x box with rpmforge repo installed but disabled, I did a: yum --enablerepo=rpmforge install vlc and downloaded/installed 43 packages, no conflicts. I keep epel disabled on this one too, maybe that is conflict - or something already installed from there.
Thanks, Les, I'll try that this evening.
mark
Le 18/06/2012 22:00, m.roth@5-cent.us a écrit :
I think you didn't read all of what I asked: none of the std. repos for CentOS have it (nor for 6.2); it seems to be at repoforge, yes, I do know
it's not in centos base, but as far as third party repos go repoforge is as standard as it gets. If you have epel configured and active you can get conflicts though. If you enable only centos and repoforge installing vlc should work, otherwise it means you have already installed some packages from another third party repo that cause a conflict. vlc does have a lot of deps, as do most other media players. That's not something to worry about. BTW you may want to try xine and mplayer as well, also available in repoforge and also very good players.
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