Error Installing mplayer with yum
chris clarke
chrisclarke at cogeco.ca
Sat Jan 17 22:29:27 UTC 2004
On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 16:04, Wayne Steenburg wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 14:39, chris clarke wrote:
> > Hi Everyone,
> >
> > I'm having some problems getting mplayer to install. I installed it
> > on another Fedora machine about 2 months ago, no problem. But now, no
> > luck :)
> >
> > I run the command "yum install mplayer" or "yum install mplayer*" and I
> > get the same error message for both...
> >
> > .....identical dependency loop exceeded
> > package mplayer needs libpostproc = 0:0.92-0.lvn.1.1 (not provideded)
> >
> > Anyone know a way around this?
> >
> > Chris Clarke
>
> It sounds like you don't have libpostproc on your system. To check for this do a:
>
> rpm -q libpostproc
>
> If it says the package is not found or if the version number is below
> .92-0 You need to install a newer version. I googled on "libpostproc
> Fedora rpm". It returned 219 results. I hope this helps.
>
> Wayne Steenburg
>
I ran rpm -q libpostproc and got this as a result
libpostproc-1.0-0.5.pre2.20031107.fr
So it looks like it's installed and up to date. Any idea how to
convince yum it's there?
Chris Clarke
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