installing xmms-mp3 fails due to dependency issues

[Adam Voigt]

It's actually not US-law as far as I know, Redhat's just playing it
safe. Seeing as how none of the other distro's due this, I do think they
are being a little too on the cautious side. Reguardless, to make MP3's
work for me, I downloaded the xmms-mp3 RPM from freshrpms.net, you might
want to give that a try.



On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 17:11, Tobias Weisserth wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> I have followed the ESR howto from
> http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Fedora-Multimedia-Installation-HOWTO/index.html to
> enable a few things that stupid US legislation crippled away from
> Fedora.
> 
> But even after following the tutorial point by point I get this:
> 
> # yum install xmms-mp3
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Base
> Server: Fedora Core 1 Dag Wieers' repository
> Server: Macromedia flash-plugin site
> Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (stable)
> Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (testing)
> Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (unstable)
> Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Released Updates
> Finding updated packages
> Downloading needed headers
> Resolving dependencies
> ....identical dependency loop exceeded
> package xmms-mp3 needs xmms = 1.2.7 (not provided)
> 
> Trying up2date results in the same error.
> 
> I then checked which version I have installed:
> 
> # xmms --version
> xmms 1.2.8
> 
> This sucks. I thought yum and up2date were supposed to solve
> dependencies themselves? And why isn't version 1.2.8 sufficient to
> install xmms-mp3? I have done a normal installation of Core 1 and
> updated the packages via yum, using mirror servers from the list Fedora
> provides. I then followed the howto.
> 
> Has anyone encountered the same problem? Please help me solve this.
> These whole patent issues are SO ridiculous. Maybe it's better to base
> Fedora in a non-US country right away to avoid this mess. Sorry, but I
> have no tolerance for this kind of "intellectual property" shit.
> 
> kind regards,
> Tobias W.
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Adam Voigt
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