Re: VLC on Fedora Core 5

[Les Mikesell <lesmikesell gmail com>]

Peter Horst wrote:
> Has anyone managed to get VLC up and running on FC 5?  I am having a 
> devil of a time.  I'm using videolan's own packages, but running 'yum 
> install vlc' produces:
>
> Error: Missing Dependency: libgnutls.so.11(GNUTLS_REL_1_0_9) is needed 
> by package vlc
> Error: Missing Dependency: libgnutls.so.11 is needed by package vlc
> Error: Missing Dependency: libdbus-1.so.1 is needed by package vlc
>
> These are old versions of libraries that are already on my system - is 
> it wise to install old software?  And if it's not a bad thing to do, how 
> does one do it using yum or rpm?  Alternatively, has anyone tried 
> building this software from source?
>
> Any help greatly appreciated.

Look at

http://rpm.livna.org/rlowiki/UsingLivna

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