Am trying to install MPlayer on Suse 9.3. Have gone to Packman site and downloaded the requisite files. Whenever I try to install the RPMs (w32codec-all or libdca or toolame) using YAST the following happens. 1. Install appears to go normally 2. At the 100% mark, I get a message indicating the RPM has failed to install 3. Details show "fatal region error detected" Any suggestions? Thanks in advance
On Saturday 30 April 2005 09:21 pm, William E. Shotts wrote:
Am trying to install MPlayer on Suse 9.3. Have gone to Packman site and downloaded the requisite files. Whenever I try to install the RPMs (w32codec-all or libdca or toolame) using YAST the following happens.
1. Install appears to go normally 2. At the 100% mark, I get a message indicating the RPM has failed to install 3. Details show "fatal region error detected"
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance
Sounds like a corrupt rpm database. I'd suggest a full backup, then try rpm --rebuilddb as the root user. Don't skip the backup, as there is no guarantee that the rebuild will be able to completely fix the problem. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
On Saturday 30 April 2005 10:26 pm, John Andersen wrote:
On Saturday 30 April 2005 09:21 pm, William E. Shotts wrote:
Am trying to install MPlayer on Suse 9.3. Have gone to Packman site and downloaded the requisite files. Whenever I try to install the RPMs (w32codec-all or libdca or toolame) using YAST the following happens.
1. Install appears to go normally 2. At the 100% mark, I get a message indicating the RPM has failed to install 3. Details show "fatal region error detected"
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance
Sounds like a corrupt rpm database. I'd suggest a full backup, then try rpm --rebuilddb as the root user. Don't skip the backup, as there is no guarantee that the rebuild will be able to completely fix the problem. Thanks for your response. I did the following:
1. Attempted to install using rpm -Uvh from terminal. Found out that the system thought the RPMs were already installed. I then went ahead with your suggestion and rebuilt the rpm database. MPlayer seems to run correctly and I have executed other RPMs since then and all seems fine. It is not clear to me whether anything has happened or not... probably my ignorance. Once, again, thanks.
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