ken wrote: > Subsequent to trying to "yum update"-- it failed--, I tried to resolve > the dependencies piecemeal: > # yum update faad2 > .... > --> Processing Dependency: libfaad.so.0 for package: ffmpeg > ---> Package faad2.i386 0:2.7-1.el5.rf set to be updated > --> Finished Dependency Resolution > ffmpeg-0.5-2.el5.rf.i386 from installed has depsolving problems > --> Missing Dependency: libfaad.so.0 is needed by package > ffmpeg-0.5-2.el5.rf.i386 (installed) > Error: Missing Dependency: libfaad.so.0 is needed by package > ffmpeg-0.5-2.el5.rf.i386 (installed) > .... > # rpm -q ffmpeg > ffmpeg-0.5-2.el5.rf > Could it be that there's a packaging error in faad2 ? the yum output tells you exactly what is going on here. ffmpeg needs the file libfaad.so.0. $ yumdownloader -q faad2 ... faad2 -2.7 -1 .el5 .rf .i386 .rpm | 354 kB 00:00 $ rpm -qlp --provides ./faad2-2.7-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm | grep libfaad.so libfaad.so.2 /usr/lib/libfaad.so.2 /usr/lib/libfaad.so.2.0.0 $ the updated faad2 package does not provide libfaad.so.0; it provides libfaad.so.2, and thus it is not compatible with the installed ffmpeg package. your choices are essentially as follows: * if you need the updated faad2 for some other reason, uninstall ffmpeg * if you don't need the updated faad2, add faad2 to your exclusion list for yum so that you don't keep seeing messages about it * request a rebuild of ffmpeg against the updated faad2 -steve p.s. please keep further discussion of this issue on <users at lists.rpmforge.net >, where it belongs :) -- If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction. - Fabian, Twelfth Night, III,v http://five.sentenc.es -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: PGP.sig Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 195 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20091106/9e31f4fe/attachment-0005.sig>