mplayer problems
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Sun May 14 21:03:10 UTC 2006
On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 11:33 -0700, oldman wrote:
> 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?
> >
> >
> Not much help, but I found the same problem. Nothing changed in
> mplayer lately, so it might be the new firefox? I think I didn't see
> the problem before that one. Keep an eye out for a new mplayerplug-in,
> maybe in sourceforge.
>
> Scott
Go to:
http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_5_installation_notes.html
for instaructions on this question and others.
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Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>
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