[vlc] Re: Problems installing VLC 0.7 on linux

[Jason Luka]

Torsten Spindler wrote:

>On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 11:31, Anders Bøje Larsen wrote:
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>>I've downloaded the two RPM's from videolan.org, uncompressed them, and
>>when running rpm -U vlc/* --force, it say's:
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>Installing rpms with rpm --force is a good way to make your system
>useless. This basically tells rpm to ignore almost all problems.
>I'd recommend you try 
>rpm -Uvh vlc/*
>first. v and h give some more information on what rpm is doing.
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>>error : Failed dependencies
>>  mozilla = 35:1.2.1 is needed by (installed) galeon-1.2.7-3
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>You have a software called galeon that needs mozilla in version 1.2.1. If you 
>don't use galeon, it's safe to uninstall it with
>rpm -e galeon
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>Bye,
>Torsten
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The reason --force was added to the command line is because apparently 
rpm thinks libcdio-0.65cvs is newer than libcdio-0.65, making upgrading 
from test3 to the full release a pain in the neck.  It probably won't be 
worth the trouble of keeping it in there on the page.

Jason Luka

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