fedora and xine.

[Pritesh Shah]

hi,

thanks for the reply and sorry for posting it in the wrong mailing list.

Pritesh.


On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 18:05:40 -0400, Sean Middleditch
<elanthis at awesomeplay.com> wrote:
> Pritesh Shah wrote:
> 
> >I'm trying to install xine in my system. i downloaded the binaries
> >from freshrpms for fedora 2. i got i think all the prerequisite
> >packages needed installed. when i'm trying to install xine it reports
> >the following error:
> >
> ># rpm -ivh xine-0.99.2-1.1.fc2.fr.i386.rpm
> >warning: xine-0.99.2-1.1.fc2.fr.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key
> >ID e42d547b
> >error: Failed dependencies:
> >        libcurl.so.2 is needed by xine-0.99.2-1.1.fc2.fr
> >
> >
> The first problem is that curl is very poorly packaged.  Libraries
> should be packages such that they are parallel installable.  I have
> already filed a bug against the curl package for this.
> 
> For the fix, I just made a symlink from libcurl.so.2 to libcurl.so.3.
> They seem to be compatible enough for Xine to at least run.  It might
> reduce stability, though I haven't seen any problems.  I don't run Xine
> over the network, however.
> 
> Finally, this list is about developing Fedora, not user questions - use
> fedora-test-list for that.
>