On 2 September 2013 21:42, Tom Rosmond <rosm...@reachone.com> wrote: > Over the weekend on my workstation I did an SL re-install from 5.5 to > 6.4. So far my system seems to be running everything I want, with one > exception. I had 'mplayer' working under 5.5, but have a problem with > 6.4. I tried to install it from 2 different repos (atrpms, dag), but in > both cases there is a missing dependency with 'libltdl.so.3'. This > library was apparently available in 5.5, but in 6.4 has been upgraded to > 'libltdl.so.7', and the 'mplayer' RPM's aren't compatible. It is easy > to download and install the older version from the typical sites. > However, are there any unforeseen consequences doing this that might > cause problems? Or is there a preferred application from playing videos > (e.g. AVI files), in 6.4. > > T. Rosmond
I have found that the mplayer package from the LinuxTECH repository [1][2][3] is a perfect replacement for that which was previously available from Repoforge (a.k.a. RPMforge). Alan. [1] http://pkgrepo.linuxtech.net/el6/ [2] http://pkgrepo.linuxtech.net/el6/release/linuxtech.repo [3] http://pkgrepo.linuxtech.net/el6/release/RPM-GPG-KEY-LinuxTECH.NET