Error Installing mplayer with yum

Wayne Steenburg w.steenburg at myactv.net
Sat Jan 17 21:04:29 UTC 2004


On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 14:39, chris clarke wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> 	I'm having some problems getting mplayer to install.   I installed it
> on another Fedora machine about 2 months ago, no problem.  But now, no
> luck :)
> 
> 	I run the command "yum install mplayer" or "yum install mplayer*" and I
> get the same error message for both...
> 
> .....identical dependency loop exceeded
> package mplayer needs libpostproc = 0:0.92-0.lvn.1.1 (not provideded)
> 
> 	Anyone know a way around this?
> 
> Chris Clarke

It sounds like you don't have libpostproc on your system. To check for this do a:

rpm -q libpostproc

If it says the package is not found or if the version number is below
.92-0 You need to install a newer version. I googled on "libpostproc
Fedora rpm". It returned 219 results. I hope this helps.

Wayne Steenburg





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