[CentOS] failed dependencies during mplayer installation.

Thu Jun 19 08:48:07 UTC 2008
John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>

Gopinath Achari wrote:
> hi 
> i am new to linux while installing mplayer
>
> [gopinath at localhost Desktop]$ rpm -ivh
> mplayer-1.0-0.37.rc1try2.el5.rf.i386.rpm
> mplayer-fonts-1.1-3.0.rf.noarch.rpm 
> warning: mplayer-1.0-0.37.rc1try2.el5.rf.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA
> signature: NOKEY, key ID 6b8d79e6
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         libaa.so.1 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.37.rc1try2.el5.rf.i386
>         libcaca.so.0 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.37.rc1try2.el5.rf.i386
>         libcucul.so.0 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.37.rc1try2.el5.rf.i386
>   
...


Don't use `rpm` to install it, use yum

 # yum install mplayer

I note that package is from the rpmforge repository (since its name 
includes .rf.), so you could add support for rpmforge to your system via...

# rpm -Uvh 
http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm

THEN do the "yum install mplayer"