[MPlayer-users] Re: libxvidcore.so.4 for SuSE 9.0?

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Thursday, 19 February 2004 at 06:38, Michael Waters wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2004, Jens Kjaerulff wrote:
> > 
> > Searching google, it is evident that this question has been up various
> > places before - but I find no answers.. .
> > 
> > When I try to install Mplayer for SuSE 9.0
> > 
> > http://packman.links2linux.de/?action=128
> > 
> > 
> > through the 'Yast', I am informed that I need
> > 'libxvidcore.so.4'. I have tried to install rpms with very similar names
> > that I found at RMP search
> > http://rpm.pbone.net/
> > 
> > but seemingly to little avail.
> > 
> > Where would I find the correct rpm?
> 
> hmmm, don't know about rpms, sorry... but mplayer doesn't really need
> libxvidcore for anything unless you want to encode with it.  Maybe you
> can force install ?  On my system, libxvidcore.so.4 is just a link to
> libxvidcore.so.4.0 . Maybe you're just missing a symlink ?

If it's linked with it (you can check by using ldd on the binary), then it
won't work without it. I guess the RPM would be named xvid or xvidcore
or perhaps libxvidcore?

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