[CentOS] failed dependencies during mplayer installation.

Thu Jun 19 08:49:10 UTC 2008
Ryan Lewon <xorl at xorl.net>

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 01:48:07AM -0700, John R Pierce wrote:
> 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"
Agreed. That would be the easiest/smartest way to deal with it.




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