[vlc] Re: Error during installation of vlc on FC3

[Benjamin PRACHT]

On Fri, Mar 04, 2005, santosy at iitk.ac.in wrote :
> I have installed FC3 on a Pentium 3 machine have 128 RAM. I have visited
> the link   http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-fedora.html
> and downloaded the following file
>     vlc-binary.tar.gz
>     videolan-client-0.8.1-1.1.fc3.rf.i386.rpm
> 
> Firstly I tried the rpm version but it gives eroor about dependencies.
> so i go for vlc-binary.tar.gz. but here also i got the same error message.
> to overcome it i have installed vlc-binary.tar.gz file using command
>         rpm -U vlc-binary.tar.gz --force --nodeps
>                so now It is installed on my system but it is giving error
> 
> "VLC media player 0.8.1 Janus
>  libhal.c 644 : Error connecting to system bus: Failed to connect to
> socket   /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory"
> 

This is more a warning than an error... it just means you haven't hal
installed, which is an optional component for VLC.

VLC carries quite a lot of dependancies. Did you first install all the
privided contrib RPMs ?

-- 
BigBen

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