rpm problem, now mplayer/gpm is busted :-(

[Steven W. Orr]

On Wednesday, Dec 10th 2008 at 17:29 -0000, quoth Michael Schwendt:

=>On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:01:44 -0500 (EST), Steven wrote:
=>
=>> Somehow I have the following packages installed:
=>> 
=>> mplayer-gui-1.0-0.103.20080903svn.fc10.i386
=>> gnome-mplayer-0.9.2-2.fc10.i386
=>> mplayer-1.0-0.103.20080903svn.fc10.i386
=>> gnome-mplayer-common-0.9.2-2.fc10.i386
=>> 
=>> The problem is that when I try to run mplayer, it does with:
=>> 
=>> 529 > mplayer Happy_Penguin.wmv
=>> mplayer: error while loading shared libraries: libgpm.so.1: cannot open 
=>> shared object file: No such file or directory
=>> 
=>> I have a libgpm.so.2 that comes with the latest 
=>> gpm-devel-1.20.5-1.fc10.i386
=>> 
=>> The gpm libs I have are:
=>> 
=>> [root at saturn ~]# ls -l /usr/lib/libgpm*
=>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25856 Jul 17 06:29 /usr/lib/libgpm.a
=>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    15 Dec  7 19:21 /usr/lib/libgpm.so -> libgpm.so.2.1.0
=>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    15 Dec  7 19:18 /usr/lib/libgpm.so.2 -> libgpm.so.2.1.0
=>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 59446 Jul 17 06:29 /usr/lib/libgpm.so.2.1.0
=>> 
=>> [root at saturn ~]# rpm -qa | grep gpm
=>> gpm-1.20.5-1.fc10.i386
=>> gpm-devel-1.20.5-1.fc10.i386
=>> 
=>> And, when I run ldd, I get this:
=>> 
=>> 533 > ldd /usr/bin/mplayer | grep gpm
=>>          libgpm.so.1 => not found
=>> 
=>> Is it me or is there a problem?
=>
=>$ ldd /usr/bin/mplayer|grep gpm
=>        libgpm.so.2 => /usr/lib/libgpm.so.2 (0x004d5000)
=>
=>Can you show a bit more about your /usr/bin/mplayer?
=>"ll /usr/bin/mplayer && rpm -V mplayer"
=>"mplayer | head -5"


Sure.

576 > ls -l /usr/bin/mplayer
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8353364 Nov 24 19:57 /usr/bin/mplayer
577 > rpm -V mplayer
578 > mplayer | head -5
mplayer: error while loading shared libraries: libgpm.so.1: cannot open 
shared object file: No such file or directory


Does this help?

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