On Sunday 09 November 2003 04:40 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho! > > I had the same problem, but (probably) with a different program. I don't > remember which program, but there were "inter-dependencies" between two or > three sets of files, and none of them would install because they all > needed each other. What a pain! > > I finally got fed up and "told rpm" to load all of the programs - and the > darned thing went on and installed everything just as smooth as could be! > > Sorry, I only had this one experience, and I don't normally use rpm from > the command line, so I can't give you the details on what I did - but > instead of trying to install A and then install B, I gave the command > sequence to install A B - and it worked! > > Let us know if it works for you! > > Good luck! > > LeRoy > > > Hi, > > I know I'm not the first to have problems with dependencies, but it's > > the first time for me and I've been unable to find a page that tells me > > actually what to do in this case. > > > > I'm trying to install Mplayer. > > I downloaded mplayer-gui-1.0pre2-1.i386.rpm and double-clicked on it. > > and Kpackage reported the following: > > error: failed dependencies: > > mplayer-skin is needed by mplayer-gui-1.0pre2-1 > > mplayer-common = 1.0pre2 is needed by mplayer-gui-1.0pre2-1 > > libpng.so.2 is needed by mplayer-gui-1.0pre2-1 > > RESULT=1 > > > > so I went googling and found the first two files. > > [Oh btw what's up with the whole program being 1.8M but the SKIN IS OVER > > 4M???] snip> > > registered Linux user number 328618 One way you can handle this sort of thing is to put all of the rpms in one folder in your /home directory. Say "/home/LeRoy/filesIdownloaded" then cd to that folder and at the prompt type "rpm -Uvh *.rpm" and it will install them all in the needed order. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842
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