[CALUG] VLC - conflicts/circular RPM dependencies?

junekis at comcast.net junekis at comcast.net
Sat Feb 11 13:00:23 CST 2006


The red carpet package manager from Novell works very well

Or, the --force and --no_deps flags on RPM can *sometimes* break a logjam, if used with caution
 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Rajiv Gunja <opn.src.rocks at gmail.com>
> I no longer have the pateince to debug pkg issues. I know, it goes against
> half the people in our calug or more. But since I have been looking for a
> windows alternative, I expect everything to just work. I came across VLC
> player, when I downloaded a cricket match Australia Vs World XI. I installed
> VLC from Xandros Networks and it just worked. By the way, my OS is Xandros
> 3.0 Deluxe. It is very similar to Windows, with the power of Linux. Xandros
> Network uses apt-get in the back ground.
> 
> -GGR
> 
> ---
> Rajiv G Gunja
> System Analyst / Engg
> SUN / AIX / HPUX / Linux Admin
> IM: AOL / Yahoo / MSN : ggvrsn
> 
> 
> 
> On 1/12/06, James Ewing Cottrell 3rd <JECottrell3 at comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> > One other observation. You placed an option (--force) after an argument.
> > Unless you have seen specific examples where that works, place the
> > options first.
> >
> > You probably need --nodeps as well as --force. In fact, you probably
> > want --nodeps *instead* of --force. They should have renamed --force as
> > "--downgrade-or-overwrite" instead. Reread the options carefully.
> >
> > JIM
> >
> > Browne at t-online.de wrote:
> > > Hi CALUG,
> > >     Has anyone successfully installed the VLC media player?  I have
> > > Fedora Core 3
> > > with a 2.6.9 kernel.  As you can see below, the fatal error is "file
> > > /usr/lib/libvcdinfo.so.0.0.1
> > > conflicts between attempted installs of vcdimager-libvcd-0.7.20-1.1.vlc
> > > and libvcd-0.7.20-3"
> > > Those two packages are themselves provided in the tarball (contents
> > > shown below), so that
> > > seems strange.  It's no different if I do the " rpm -U vlc/* --force" as
> > > specified on the web
> > > page.  If I try to do the individual RPMs, I see;
> > > badger# rpm -U cdinfo-0.71-0.i386.rpm --force
> > > error: Failed dependencies:
> > >         libcdio.so.0 is needed by cdinfo-0.71-0.i386
> > >         libiso9660.so.2 is needed by cdinfo-0.71-0.i386
> > >         libvcdinfo.so.0 is needed by cdinfo-0.71-0.i386
> > >         libvcdinfo.so.0(VCDINFO_0) is needed by cdinfo-0.71-0.i386
> > > badger#
> > >
> > > although (in the first instance), I see that libcdio.so.3 is installed
> > > as part of libcdio-0.71-0:
> > > badger# l /usr/lib/libcdio.so.3*
> > > lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    16 Jan  3 13:43 /usr/lib/libcdio.so.3 ->
> > > libcdio.so.3.0.0
> > > -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 80200 Nov 28  2004 /usr/lib/libcdio.so.3.0.0
> > > badger#
> > >
> > > Surely it can't be telling me to revert to libcdio.so.0???  Can anyone
> > offer
> > > any suggestions on this?
> > >
> > > Thanks - Ed
> > >
> > >
> > 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -------------------------------
> > > badger# rpm -Uvih --nodeps *.rpm
> > > warning: a52dec-0.7.4-7.1.fc3.fr.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key
> > > ID e42d547b
> > > warning: package libmodplug = 1:0.7-2vlc was already added, replacing
> > > with libmodplug <= 1:0.7-3vlc
> > > warning: package libpostproc = 1.0-0.11.pre5.1.fc2.fr was already added,
> > > replacing with libpostproc <= 1.0-0.12.20041025.1.fc3.fr
> > > warning: package vcdimager = 0.7.20-1.1.vlc was already added, replacing
> > > with vcdimager <= 0.7.20-3
> > > Preparing...                ###########################################
> > > [100%]
> > >         package libcddb-0.9.6-1 is already installed
> > >         package libcdio-0.71-0 is already installed
> > >         file /usr/lib/libvcdinfo.so.0.0.1 conflicts between attempted
> > > installs of vcdimager-libvcd-0.7.20-1.1.vlc and libvcd-0.7.20-3
> > > badger#
> > >
> > > badger% l /home/edbrown/firefox_downloads/vlc-binary.tar
> > > -rw-rw-r--  1 edbrown edbrown 16128000 Jan  3 13:22
> > > /home/edbrown/firefox_downloads/vlc-binary.tar
> > > badger% l
> > > total 16032
> > > drwxr-xr-x   2 root    root       4096 Dec 10  2004 .
> > > drwxr-xr-x  37 root    root       4096 Jan  3 19:11 ..
> > > -rw-rw-r--   1 edbrown edbrown   50861 Nov 27  2004
> > > a52dec-0.7.4-7.1.fc3.fr.i386.rpm
> > > -rw-rw-r--   1 edbrown edbrown   97436 Nov 27  2004
> > > aalib-1.4.0-5.1.fc3.fr.i386.rpm
> > > -rw-r--r--   1 root    root      38166 Nov 27  2004
> > cdinfo-0.71-0.i386.rpm
> > > -rw-rw-r--   1 edbrown edbrown   74734 Nov 27  2004
> > > faac-1.24-1.1.fc3.fr.i386.rpm
> > > -rw-rw-r--   1 edbrown edbrown  206017 Nov 27  2004
> > > faad2-2.0-2.20040923.1.fc3.fr.i386.rpm
> > > -rw-rw-r--   1 edbrown edbrown  256686 Nov 27  2004
> > > imlib2-1.1.2-2.1.fc3.fr.i386.rpm
> > > -rw-rw-r--   1 edbrown edbrown  499448 Nov 27  2004
> > > lame-3.96.1-2.1.fc3.fr.i386.rpm
> > > -rw-r--r--   1 root    root      36767 Nov 28  2004
> > libcddb-0.9.6-1.i386.rpm
> > > -rw-r--r--   1 root    root      62073 Nov 28  2004
> > libcdio-0.71-0.i386.rpm
> > > -rw-rw-r--   1 edbrown edbrown   29211 Nov 28  2004
> > > libdvbpsi-0.1.4-1.1.fc3.fr.i386.rpm
> > > -rw-rw-r--   1 edbrown edbrown   34379 Nov 28  2004
> > > libdvdcss-1.2.8-4.1.fc3.fr.i386.rpm
> > > -rw-rw-r--   1 edbrown edbrown   82885 Nov 28  2004
> > > libdvdnav-0.1.10-2.1.fc3.fr.i386.rpm
> > > -rw-rw-r--   1 edbrown edbrown   56025 Nov 28  2004
> > > libdvdread-0.9.4-5.1.fc3.fr.i386.rpm
> > > -rw-rw-r--   1 edbrown edbrown   42691 Nov 28  2004
> > > libid3tag-0.15.1b-3.1.fc3.fr.i386.rpm
> > > -rw-rw-r--   1 edbrown edbrown   81392 Nov 28  2004
> > > libmad-0.15.1b-3.1.fc3.fr.i386.rpm
> > > -rw-r--r--   1 root    root     111410 Nov 28  2004
> > > libmodplug-0.7-2vlc.i386.rpm
> > > -rw-r--r--   1 root    root     111495 Nov 28  2004
> > > libmodplug-0.7-3vlc.i386.rpm
> > > -rw-rw-r--   1 edbrown edbrown   41057 Sep 19  2004
> > > libpostproc-1.0-0.11.pre5.1.fc2.fr.i386.rpm
> > > -rw-rw-r--   1 edbrown edbrown   43604 Nov 28  2004
> > > libpostproc-1.0-0.12.20041025.1.fc3.fr.i386.rpm
> > > -rw-rw-r--   1 edbrown edbrown   50934 Jun 20  2004
> > libtar-1.2.11-1.i386.rpm
> > > -rw-rw-r--   1 edbrown edbrown   92592 Sep 19  2004
> > libvcd-0.7.20-3.i386.rpm
> > > -rw-rw-r--   1 edbrown edbrown  211356 Nov 28  2004
> > > lirc-0.6.6-4.1.fc3.fr.i386.rpm
> > > -rw-rw-r--   1 edbrown edbrown   93764 Nov 28  2004
> > > mpeg2dec-0.4.1-0.20040610.2.1.fc3.fr.i386.rpm
> > > -rw-r--r--   1 root    root     386817 Nov 28  2004
> > openslp-1.2.0-1.i386.rpm
> > > -rw-rw-r--   1 edbrown edbrown  541752 Nov 28  2004
> > > vcdimager-0.7.20-1.1.vlc.i386.rpm
> > > -rw-rw-r--   1 edbrown edbrown  519969 Sep 19  2004
> > > vcdimager-0.7.20-3.i386.rpm
> > > -rw-rw-r--   1 edbrown edbrown 1148386 Nov 28  2004
> > > vcdimager-libvcd-0.7.20-1.1.vlc.i386.rpm
> > > -rw-r--r--   1 root    root    8435083 Dec 10  2004 vlc-0.8.1-1.i386.rpm
> > > -rw-rw-r--   1 edbrown edbrown 2209460 Nov 28  2004
> > > wxGTK-2.4.2-5.1.fc3.fr.i386.rpm
> > > -rw-rw-r--   1 edbrown edbrown   16059 Nov 28  2004
> > > wxGTK-gl-2.4.2-5.1.fc3.fr.i386.rpm
> > > -rw-rw-r--   1 edbrown edbrown  273393 Nov 28  2004
> > > wxGTK-stc-2.4.2-5.1.fc3.fr.i386.rpm
> > > -rw-rw-r--   1 edbrown edbrown  163537 Nov 28  2004
> > > wxGTK-xrc-2.4.2-5.1.fc3.fr.i386.rpm
> > > badger%
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