Error Installing mplayer with yum

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Sa, den 17.01.2004 schrieb chris clarke um 23:29:
> On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 16:04, Wayne Steenburg wrote:
> > On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 14:39, chris clarke wrote:
> > > Hi Everyone,
> > > 
> > > 	I'm having some problems getting mplayer to install.   I installed it
> > > on another Fedora machine about 2 months ago, no problem.  But now, no
> > > luck :)
> > > 
> > > 	I run the command "yum install mplayer" or "yum install mplayer*" and I
> > > get the same error message for both...
> > > 
> > > .....identical dependency loop exceeded
> > > package mplayer needs libpostproc = 0:0.92-0.lvn.1.1 (not provideded)
> > > 
> > > 	Anyone know a way around this?
> > > 
> > > Chris Clarke
> > 
> > It sounds like you don't have libpostproc on your system. To check for this do a:
> > 
> > rpm -q libpostproc
> > 
> > If it says the package is not found or if the version number is below
> > .92-0 You need to install a newer version. I googled on "libpostproc
> > Fedora rpm". It returned 219 results. I hope this helps.
> > 
> > Wayne Steenburg
> > 
> I ran rpm -q libpostproc and got this as a result
> 
> libpostproc-1.0-0.5.pre2.20031107.fr
> 
> So it looks like it's installed and up to date.  Any idea how to
> convince yum it's there?
> 
> Chris Clarke

Install the mplayer package by freshrpms.net. Mixing the livna.org
repository and the freshrpms.net one leads to your problem.

Alexander


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