install problems

[James Lawrence]

Alexander Dalloz wrote:

>Am Do, den 01.07.2004 schrieb James Lawrence um 19:17:
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>The solution first: use up2date, yum or even apt if you don't want to
>handle dependencies by hand, which can be tricky especially when trying
>to install multimedia applications with a lot of dependencies.
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>>hi all,
>>tryingto install  xvidcap  slowly solving dependancy problems.   when i 
>>try to install ffmpeg  with this.... "rpm -ivh 
>>ffmpeg-0.4.8-3.1.fc2.fr.i386.rpm"   i get this...
>>[jim at My_World livecapture]$ rpm -ivh ffmpeg-0.4.8-3.1.fc2.fr.i386.rpm
>>warning: ffmpeg-0.4.8-3.1.fc2.fr.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key 
>>ID e42d547b
>>error: Failed dependencies:
>>        lame is needed by ffmpeg-0.4.8-3.1.fc2.fr
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>>so, i did this....rpm -qa | sort -o ~/rpmlist7.txt   to see what rpms 
>>were installed snip of rpmlist
>>lame-libs-3.95.1-1
>>less-382-3
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>>it shows that lame is installed so i tried to update it no can do.     i 
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>No, it does no show that lame is installed! It show only a lame-libs
>package being registred in the rpm db.
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>>downloaded lame (plain lame)
>>and tried to install and this is what i get.....
>>[root at My_World livecapture]# rpm -ivh lame-3.96-1.1.fc2.dag.i386.rpm
>>warning: lame-3.96-1.1.fc2.dag.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 
>>6b8d79e6
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>Ever thought about installing the GPG key from Dag's repository (or any
>other you use like freshrpms.net)?
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>>Preparing...                ########################################### 
>>[100%]
>>        file /usr/lib/libmp3lame.so.0.0.0 from install of 
>>lame-3.96-1.1.fc2.dag conflicts with file from package lame-libs-3.95.1-1
>>[root at My_World livecapture]#
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>Often discussed the side effects of mixing repositories. Or should I say
>in this case packages from different repositories?
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>>what do I do from here ?   here is a list of all packages i got to try 
>>to install  xvidcap....
>>*faac-1.24-1.1.fc2.dag.i386.rpm    gvidcap-1.1.3-fdr.i386.rpm
>>*faad2-2.0-1.1.fc2.fr.i386.rpm     lame-3.96-1.1.fc2.dag.i386.rpm
>>ffmpeg-0.4.8-3.1.fc2.fr.i386.rpm
>>* installed
>>please help
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>Take a decision which repository you want to use and mainly stay with
>that one. Configure your up2date, yum or apt to use that repository and
>safe yourself headaches.
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>Alexander
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what if i remove lame-libs-3.95.1-1 i did a dependancy check and another 
program needs it but what do i do?