Installing VLC player in Fedora Core 4

nigham · #1 23rd June 2005, 12:13 PM

Has anybody managed to install vlc in FC3/4? From the downloaded rpms on the vlc site, it gives me lots of dependency errors. i've installed some of them but some appear to be impossible.

e.g. libFLAC.so.4 cannot be installed because libFLAC.so.7 is installed and needed by something else. and i have tried yum with dag, dries and freshrpms but they appear to have no package for videolan-client.

someone help!

Jman · #2 24th June 2005, 05:27 AM

livna has it. I'm listening to it right now in FC4.

nigham · #3 24th June 2005, 06:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jman

livna has it. I'm listening to it right now in FC4.

Can you share your repository? I am not able to download thru
http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/4/i386/

Thanks

ogo · #4 24th June 2005, 02:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nigham

Can you share your repository? I am not able to download thru
http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/4/i386/

Thanks

nigham: the livna repository's videolan-client rpms are available at the following urls. if you're subscribed to the european school of rpm repositories, i suggest you stick with them.

vlc-0.8.2-0.lvn.0.1.test2.4.i386
vlc-devel-0.8.2-0.lvn.0.1.test2.4.i386.rpm

laltopi · #5 24th June 2005, 03:26 PM

Can you also point to some links to test the mozilla plugin for vlc?

ogo · #6 24th June 2005, 03:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by laltopi

Can you also point to some links to test the mozilla plugin for vlc?

edit: excuses. having checked out the vlc mozilla plugin page, i saw that there was actually one for gnu/linux, mac os x and ms windows.

i don't think it exists. for embedded media, i use mplayerplug-in. binary rpm for Fedora Core 3 seems to be working fine on FC 4.

mplayerplug-in
mplayerplug-in-2.85-1.FC3.i386.rpm

for earlier versions, you could check out the dag repository.
http://dag.wieers.com/packages/mplayerplug-in/

snoze · #7 24th June 2005, 04:40 PM

So far I am unable to install this successfully. it is still giving error message

ogo · #8 24th June 2005, 05:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by snoze

So far I am unable to install this successfully. it is still giving error message

haven't tried the livna package myself. are you getting dependency problems? perhaps, messages reading like "no package provides libdvbpsi.so.1", etc.? if you use the freshrpms repo with yum, you should better wait for a proper freshrpms fc 4 package. yum will solve the dependency problems for you.
but if you really can't wait, just check out rpm.pbone.net for livna's fc 4 vlc package to see which libraries that package requires. you should have everthing on your linux box to be able to install vlc. try installing the rpm with the package installer, and it will tell you what you need. then you can search the rpm.pbone.net to install the missing dependencies.
rpm.pbone.net also hosts livna's vlc plugin for mozilla.

laltopi · #9 1st August 2005, 04:40 PM

The livna package is busted since the updates to libcddb and libcdio. Does any other repo have a better build?

oakwcj · #10 1st August 2005, 05:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by laltopi

The livna package is busted since the updates to libcddb and libcdio. Does any other repo have a better build?

Freshrpms [http://stentz.freshrpms.net] has it.

ghaefb · #11 1st August 2005, 05:14 PM

Quote:

libFLAC.so.4 cannot be installed because libFLAC.so.7 is installed and needed by something else.

When that happens, the rpm requires a library that is older than the installed I do this.
For example if you have libFLAC.so.7 in /usr/lib/ but the rpm requires libFLAC.so.4.

As root I link a new .so.7 to an old .so.4 like this:

Code:

ln -s /usr/lib/libFLAC.so.7 /usr/lib/libFLAC.so.4

The rpm will still complain about the missing library, so I install it with --nodeps flag.
So this usually works.

But note that this is a bad practise. Something may go wrong when doing such non standard library hacks.

terry_g · #12 1st August 2005, 10:27 PM

This worked for me . yum install videolan-client

Raafi · #13 2nd August 2005, 02:20 AM

I am still getting missing dependencies

Code:

[root@localhost ~]# yum install vlc
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
livna                     100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
updates-released          100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Downloading header for vlc to pack into transaction set.
vlc-0.8.2-0.lvn.1.4.i386. 100% |=========================|  53 kB    00:01
---> Package vlc.i386 0:0.8.2-0.lvn.1.4 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: libcdio.so.5 for package: vlc
--> Processing Dependency: libcddb.so.0 for package: vlc
--> Processing Dependency: libcdio.so.5(CDIO_5) for package: vlc
--> Processing Dependency: libdvdnav.so.4 for package: vlc
--> Processing Dependency: libdvbpsi.so.1 for package: vlc
--> Processing Dependency: libmpeg2.so.0 for package: vlc
--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Downloading header for libdvbpsi to pack into transaction set.
libdvbpsi-0.1.3-0.lvn.4.4 100% |=========================| 3.1 kB    00:00
---> Package libdvbpsi.i386 0:0.1.3-0.lvn.4.4 set to be updated
---> Downloading header for libdvdnav to pack into transaction set.
libdvdnav-0.1.10-0.lvn.1. 100% |=========================| 3.6 kB    00:00
---> Package libdvdnav.i386 0:0.1.10-0.lvn.1.4 set to be updated
---> Downloading header for mpeg2dec to pack into transaction set.
mpeg2dec-0.4.0-0.lvn.4.b. 100% |=========================| 5.0 kB    00:00
---> Package mpeg2dec.i386 0:0.4.0-0.lvn.4.b.4 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: libcddb.so.0 for package: vlc
--> Processing Dependency: libcdio.so.5 for package: vlc
--> Processing Dependency: libcdio.so.5(CDIO_5) for package: vlc
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Missing Dependency: libcdio.so.5 is needed by package vlc
Error: Missing Dependency: libcddb.so.0 is needed by package vlc
Error: Missing Dependency: libcdio.so.5(CDIO_5) is needed by package vlc
[root@localhost ~]# yum install videolan-client
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
livna                     100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
updates-released          100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 285 kB    00:06
updates-re: ################################################## 818/818
Added 0 new packages, deleted 7 old in 12.68 seconds
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package vlc.i386 0:0.8.2-0.lvn.1.4 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: libcdio.so.5 for package: vlc
--> Processing Dependency: libcddb.so.0 for package: vlc
--> Processing Dependency: libcdio.so.5(CDIO_5) for package: vlc
--> Processing Dependency: libdvdnav.so.4 for package: vlc
--> Processing Dependency: libdvbpsi.so.1 for package: vlc
--> Processing Dependency: libmpeg2.so.0 for package: vlc
--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package libdvbpsi.i386 0:0.1.3-0.lvn.4.4 set to be updated
---> Package libdvdnav.i386 0:0.1.10-0.lvn.1.4 set to be updated
---> Package mpeg2dec.i386 0:0.4.0-0.lvn.4.b.4 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: libcddb.so.0 for package: vlc
--> Processing Dependency: libcdio.so.5 for package: vlc
--> Processing Dependency: libcdio.so.5(CDIO_5) for package: vlc
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Missing Dependency: libcdio.so.5 is needed by package vlc
Error: Missing Dependency: libcddb.so.0 is needed by package vlc
Error: Missing Dependency: libcdio.so.5(CDIO_5) is needed by package vlc
[root@localhost ~]#

So maybe the best bet is to wait until Yum resolves the Missing Dependencies

terry_g · #14 2nd August 2005, 03:25 AM

I had the same problem when I tried to install with yum install vlc. But "yum install videolan-client" worked without a hitch on two computers!

Raafi · #15 2nd August 2005, 09:24 PM

thanks terry, but as you can see, i tried both ways

anyway, kplayer is playing everything so far

i still need a dvd program to watch dvds