videolan

Paulo Cavalcanti promac at gmail.com
Sat Feb 10 14:30:18 UTC 2007


>
>
> As far as I know, livna and freshrpms are not compatible. Perhaps
> that's why you are getting this problem?


It is not properly a question of being compatible. They offer, in general,
different versions of the same packages. Sometimes, this does not matter,
but if the version of a required shared library is different, then, there is
no way...

Freshrpms always uses an embedded ffmpeg for vlc and xine, for instance.
Therefore it is not affected when ffmpeg is upgraded. But there are a lot of
other dependencies, such as x264, faac, faad, libdvdcss, libdvdread, etc...


>From your error messages: "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" I get the impression that the newer aalib was
> probably installed from freshrpms (hence it ends with rf) as part of
> installing xine. And that is conflicting with the older aalib from
> livna.
>
> rf means rpmforge. It is from Dries. Nonetheless, aalib has no practical
use, and nobody will ever need it. Its version is not important.

I always compile my own version of vlc and mplayer, because I like different
options. But this is not necessary. Just choose a repo you like, and install
all dependencies. Livna is a good repo, but it is not more compatible to
Fedora then other repos, as some people like to say.

-- 
Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
LCG - UFRJ
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