yum can't install mplayer or xine on rh9

Chuck Campbell campbell at accelinc.com
Thu Jul 15 13:34:00 UTC 2004


I've been trying to install mplayer and the mozilla plug-in on my rh9 box.
I've also tried to install xine and its plug-in on the same box.

I've gotten stuck with both.

Mplayer attempt does this:
[root at helium root]# yum install mplayer
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Red Hat Linux 9 base
Server: Fedora Legacy Utilities for Red Hat Linux 9
Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (stable)
Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (testing)
Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (unstable)
Server: macromedia.mplug.org - Flash Plugin
Server: Red Hat Linux 9 updates
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
Resolving dependencies
......Unable to satisfy dependencies
Package mplayer needs libdv.so.2, this is not available.

I tried this:
[root at helium root]# yum install mplayer libdv
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Red Hat Linux 9 base
Server: Fedora Legacy Utilities for Red Hat Linux 9
Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (stable)
Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (testing)
Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (unstable)
Server: macromedia.mplug.org - Flash Plugin
Server: Red Hat Linux 9 updates
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
Cannot find a package matching libdv
Resolving dependencies
......Unable to satisfy dependencies
Package mplayer needs libdv.so.2, this is not available.

I thought I'd try xine instead.

Xine does this:
[root at helium root]# yum install xine
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Red Hat Linux 9 base
Server: Fedora Legacy Utilities for Red Hat Linux 9
Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (stable)
Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (testing)
Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (unstable)
Server: macromedia.mplug.org - Flash Plugin
Server: Red Hat Linux 9 updates
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
Resolving dependencies
......Unable to satisfy dependencies
Package xine-lib needs libspeex.so.1, this is not available.

Then I tried this:
[root at helium root]# yum install xine libspeex
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Red Hat Linux 9 base
Server: Fedora Legacy Utilities for Red Hat Linux 9
Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (stable)
Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (testing)
Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (unstable)
Server: macromedia.mplug.org - Flash Plugin
Server: Red Hat Linux 9 updates
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
Cannot find a package matching libspeex
Resolving dependencies
......Unable to satisfy dependencies
Package xine-lib needs libspeex.so.1, this is not available.

My yum.conf is here:
 
[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
pkgpolicy=newest
distroverpkg=redhat-release
tolerant=1
exactarch=1
retries=1

[base]
name=Red Hat Linux $releasever base
baseurl=http://mirror.datapipe.net/fedoralegacy/redhat/$releasever/os/$basearch/

[updates]
name=Red Hat Linux $releasever updates
baseurl=http://mirror.datapipe.net/fedoralegacy/redhat/$releasever/updates/$basearch/

[legacy-utils]
name=Fedora Legacy Utilities for Red Hat Linux $releasever
baseurl=http://mirror.datapipe.net/fedoralegacy/redhat/$releasever/legacy-utils/$basearch/

[livna-stable]
name=Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (stable)
baseurl= http://rpm.livna.org/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/yum/stable
  http://livna.cat.pdx.edu/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/yum/stable
#gpgcheck=1

[livna-unstable]
name=Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (unstable)
baseurl=http://rpm.livna.org/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/yum/unstable
  http://livna.cat.pdx.edu/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/yum/unstable
#gpgcheck=1

[livna-testing]
name=Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (testing)
baseurl=http://rpm.livna.org/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/yum/testing
  http://livna.cat.pdx.edu/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/yum/testing
#gpgcheck=1 

[macromedia.mplug.org]
name=macromedia.mplug.org - Flash Plugin
baseurl=http://macromedia.mplug.org/apt/redhat/$releasever
  http://sluglug.ucsc.edu/macromedia/apt/redhat/$releasever
  http://ruslug.rutgers.edu/macromedia/apt/redhat/$releasever
  http://macromedia.rediris.es/apt/redhat/$releasever
#gpgcheck=1

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
thanks,
-chuck






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