On Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:18:55 -0500, Roman wrote:
On March 3, 2009 04:01:26 pm kanenas@hawaii.rr.com wrote:
what's the latest concensus on installing vlc in a 64 bit system? if the packman repository is used, there is a bunch of unresolved dependncies, if the vlc repository is used, vlc would replace some libs that would break mplayer. I already have a bunch of stuff from packman, including ffmpeg and liboil3 and i don't want to start a dependencies war in my system. is compiling the answer? or do i have to forget vlc and forgo the tiny portion of videos that mplayer fails in? thanks, d.
I am running Mplayer and VLC. Both Mplayer and VLC have never experienced dependency problems on my Linux box w/openSUSE 11.0 and openSUSE 11.1 -64-bit.
Mplayer and VLC were installed from the pacman and videlan repositories.
I've also run into this dependency issue, FWIW - it seems that on x86_64 trying to update libvlc2 requires the deinstallation of vlc-0.9.8a, vlc- qt-0.98a, an dvlc-noX-0.98a. My system tells me that libvlc2 = 0.9.8a cannot be provided. This happens when trying to update libvlc to 1.0.0-2009022402.1 - this with everything in the VideoLan repository. It seems that libvlc2 is the underlying culprit. Do you see the 1.0.0 release listed above in your repo? Jim -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org