[MPlayer-users] Problem in installing MPlayer RPM packages

[Dominik Mierzejewski]

On Saturday, 22 March 2003, Stephen Liu wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
[...] 
> To confirm
> # rpm -Uvh --test 
> /home/satimis/Download/MediaPlayer/libpng-1.0.12-2.i386.rpm
> Preparing...                ########################################### 
> [100%]
> package libpng-1.0.12-2 is already installed

Why do you do that? What do you hope to achieve?

> To confirm
> # rpm -Uvh --test 
> /home/satimis/Download/MediaPlayer/libpng-devel-1.0.12-2.i386.rpm
> Preparing...                ########################################### 
> [100%]
> package libpng-devel-1.0.12-2 is already installed

As above.

> # rpm -Uvh --test 
> /home/satimis/Download/MediaPlayer/libpng-1.0.14-0.7x.4.i386.rpm
> error: failed dependencies:
>         libpng = 1.0.12 is needed by libpng-devel-1.0.12-2

Why do that?

> I could not locate "libpng-1.0.12.rpm" from Internet

Huh?

> # rpm -ivh --test 
> /home/satimis/Download/MediaPlayer/libpng-1.0.14-0.7x.4.i386.rpm
> Preparing...                ########################################### 
> [100%]
> file /usr/lib/libpng.so.2 from install of libpng-1.0.14-0.7x.4 conflicts 
> with file from package libpng-1.0.12-2
> file /usr/share/man/man5/png.5.gz from install of libpng-1.0.14-0.7x.4 
> conflicts with file from package libpng-1.0.12-2

Why do that when an older version is already installed? That's when you
should use upgrade mode.

> ]# rpm -Uvh --test 
> /home/satimis/Download/MediaPlayer/libpng-devel-1.0.14-0.7x.4.i386.rpm
> error: failed dependencies:
>         libpng = 1.0.14 is needed by libpng-devel-1.0.14-0.7x.4
> 
> I could not locate "libpng-1.0.14.rpm" from Internet

Huh?

Why don't you just do
rpm -Uvh libpng-1.0.14-0.7x.4.i386.rpm libpng-devel-1.0.14-0.7x.4.i386.rpm
?

> Kindly advise how to proceed.  Thanks in advance.

`man rpm` would be a good start.

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