Error Installing mplayer with yum (SOLVED)

[chris clarke]

On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 17:39, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> 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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I tried installing the rpm's from freshrpms.net but I got a whole bunch
of dependency errors. So I did a

yum remove libpostproc followed by

yum install mplayer* and everything worked fine...

Chris Clarke