Tom, Please don't top post. Tom Bishop wrote: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 2:23 PM, <m.roth at 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