[vlc] Re: Problem installing vlc on Fedora Core 4

[Jean-Paul Saman]

Regis Gras wrote:
> I want to install vlc on a Fedora Core 4
> I done what was explained in VLC media player for Fedora 4
> 
> download and install the publickeys
> vlc.repo vlc-contrib.repo ... in /etc/yum.repos.d  (copy and paste the 
> content of the page web)
> and I tried to use
> 
> yum install vlc

First you need to run: yum update

> No Match for argument: vlc
> Nothing to do
> 
> That is strange because yum search vlc find vlc-devel
> 
> So, I tried to install directly the rpm
> Download and uncompress vlc-fc4.tar.gz, and
> rpm -ivh fedora/4/i386/vlc/0.8.5/base/*.rpm .....
You need to install contribs first:
rpm -ivh fedora/4/i386/vlc/0.8.5/contrib/*.rpm

and then by hand add with yum the dependencies that are missing. The 
first method would have done that for you automatically.

> and, now, rpm complains about some dependencies
> error: Failed dependencies:
>        libSDL_image-1.2.so.0 is needed by vlc-0.8.5-1.i386
>        libImlib2.so.1 is needed by caca-utils-0.9-1.i386
> 
> Could some one help me to install vlc on FC4 ?
> 
> Thank you
> 

Gtz,
Jean-Paul Saman.

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