videolan

[Les Mikesell]

François Patte wrote:

>> You can use the Livna repository.
>>
>> As described in this email
>> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-October/msg00009.html,
>>
>> do as root :
>> rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm
>> yum install vlc
> 
> This is always the problem with livna: they put some interesting things
> but "old fashionned": their packages depends on older libraries than
> those you have already installed and when you try to install something
> it turns into a nightmare... 

It's the other way around.  Livna is compatible with fedora core/extras 
and doesn't replace those libraries.  The other third party repositories 
may or may not conflict.

If you haven't added things from other repositories, livna's vlc will 
install fine.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




so I did not go beyond this sequence:
> 
> 1st act:
> 
> yum -d 4 --enablerepo=livna install vlc
> 
> <snip>
> 
> Dependencies Resolved
> 1171055405.34
> 
> =============================================================================
>  Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size
> =============================================================================
> Installing:
>  vlc                     x86_64     0.8.6a-1.lvn6.1  livna             7.8 M
> Installing for dependencies:
>  SDL_image               x86_64     1.2.5-4.fc6      extras             43 k
>  aalib                   x86_64     1.4.0-0.11.rc5.fc6  extras
>    75 k
>  faac                    x86_64     1.25-2.lvn6      livna              82 k
>  faad2                   x86_64     2.0-19.20050131.lvn6  livna
>     202 k
>  jack-audio-connection-kit  x86_64     0.102.20-3.fc6   extras
>   136 k
>  lame-libs               x86_64     3.97-3.lvn6      livna             327 k
>  libcddb                 x86_64     1.3.0-1.fc6      extras             72 k
>  libcdio                 x86_64     0.77-3.fc6       extras            261 k
>  libdvbpsi               x86_64     0.1.5-2.lvn6     livna              39 k
>  libfreebob              x86_64     1.0.0-3.fc6      extras            155 k
>  libmp4v2                x86_64     1.5.0.1-2.lvn6   livna             264 k
>  libtar                  x86_64     1.2.11-8.fc6     extras             30 k
>  libupnp                 x86_64     1.4.1-2.fc6      extras             98 k
>  twolame                 x86_64     0.3.8-1.lvn6     livna              77 k
>  vcdimager               x86_64     0.7.23-3.lvn6    livna             662 k
>  x264                    x86_64     0-0.8.20061028.lvn6  livna
>    227 k
> 
> Transaction Summary
> =============================================================================
> Install     17 Package(s)
> Update       0 Package(s)
> Remove       0 Package(s)
> 
> Transaction Check Error:   package aalib-1.4.0-5.fc6.rf (which is newer
> than aalib-1.4.0-0.11.rc5.fc6) is already installed
> 
> 
> 2nd act:
> 
> rpm -e aalib-1.4.0-5.fc6.rf
> 
> erreur: Dépendances requises:
> 	libaa.so.1 est nécessaire pour (déjà installé) xine-0.99.4-8.fc6.rf.i386
> 	libaa.so.1 est nécessaire pour (déjà installé)
> xine-lib-extras-1.1.3-3.fc6.i386
> 
> 
> translation: aalib in its newer version version is necessary to xine....
> 
> Shall I do rpm -e xine ? Of course not! Because I will find some other
> dependencies and I will have to remove a lot of packages....
> 
> 
> Ther are a lot of problems like this; to share libraries between many
> packages is a very good thing and this is a good way *but* sometimes the
> way it is done is awfull because the "new" version of some library is
> not so new for the package you want to install and the installation
> could be done in spite of the version number of the package which
> installed these libraries...
> 
> When you know a lot about the package you want to install, you can go
> straight and use some strong arguments like "nodeps" or "force" but when
> you don't know much.... you give up.
> 
> I give up untill the compatibility between what I have installed and
> what I want to install become better....
> 
> Thanks anyway.
> 
> François