[CALUG] VLC - conflicts/circular RPM dependencies?

James Ewing Cottrell 3rd JECottrell3 at Comcast.NET
Thu Jan 12 21:07:02 CST 2006


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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