mplayer problems

[Ian Malone]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> A day or so back i hit a web site that needed mplayer, which went thru 
> the motions of downloading the file, but when it tried to play it, 
> stopped immediately, several times.
> 
> Today I thought I'd see if yumex could help and told it to install a few 
> more skins and other mplayer accessories.
> 
> It starts process the queue, and fails because it can't find mplayer, 
> but if I goto the removal screen, mplayer shows as installed and I can't 
> uninstall it because of all the other dependencies.
> 
> rpm says this version is installed:
> [root at diablo ~]# rpm -q mplayer
> mplayer-1.0pre8-0.6.20060406
> but yumex reports this
> Missing Dependency: mplayer = 1.0-0.39.20060412.lvn5 is needed by 
> package mplayer-gui
> So obviously thats a livna item, but its not shown as being available.
> 
> Which magic twanger do I need folks?
> 

At a guess you've installed from incompatible repos, I think the
Livna packages are not, in general, compatible with freshrpms,
atrpms et al (mplayer-1.0pre8-0.6.20060406 sounds like atrpms
or freshrpms).  So either rpm -e mplayer, or use yum's
--disablerepo switch to ignore livna and install mplayer-gui from
the same repo as mplayer.

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imalone