doc wrote:
Death Angel wrote:
Maybe you should try vlc...
VLC lacks full SuSE support. I downloaded and tried to YaST install vlc-0.7.1-0.pm.1.i586.rpm
Here are the broken dependencies:
libmpeg2 (i have libmpeg3 installed) libcdio libcddb 0.9.4- libdvdcss 1.2.8- libdvdpsi3 0.1.3 libffmpeg xosd 2.2.5- libavcodec.so
Between the recommended packman.links2linux.com site and Google I was able to find all of the missing dependencies. I discovered that my desktop lacked even more dependencies and spent a good deal longer hunting them down. vlc works nicely as far as I have tested it ... the time spent chasing dependencies has left little to actually try vlc except for some streaming audio! Note to extreme-newbies: Don't give up if a dependency fails when YaST loads it -- note the list of failed dependencies and run those, then return and try again. Sometimes more than one of the files you need to resolve dependencies may be buried in one. Sometimes the naming doesn't precisely direct you, e.g. liborbit is inside of orbit along with another dependency. Keep poking around, watch carefully for helpful hints, watch for the correct versions, e.g. everything for the same processor class such as i586 instead of i686 or something even more significant such as mistakenly downloading the alpha or sparc file because you were focused on the "libdvdcss" part and not the i586 vs sparc part of the long file name. Stay the course and post to the list -- there is lots of real valuable help here -- though some are more patient with newbies than others! -- Thanks! & 73, doc kd4e West Central Florida Drake, Heathkit, Kenwood, TenTec, Yaesu Radio Life: http://www.gospelcom.net/twr/ Linux-Incompatible hardware is defective! USA Pres. Election 2004: http://www.rnc.org/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~