Linux newbie trying to install VLC

[one]

Hello there.

Newbie trying to shift from windows to linux.

I've tryed mandrake 9.2 but after installing and watching one .avi movie it crashed and the sound dosen't work so i moved to fedora core 2 the DVD version. Install went fine but there's no media player.

Downloaded VLC i think its 0.7.2 /1.1? copyed it to a folder and un tar/GZed used rpm -Uvlc/* --force, and it failed to install due to dependencies. so i downloaded fedor1-updates un tar/GZed in to vlc folder and rpm -Uvlc/* --force, and it failed again.

I've tryed for 3 days and iam about to tear my hair out. If you know what iam doing wrong or know of a easyer media player/distro to install please tell me.

Here's whats displayed during installtion.

warning: vlc/a52dec-0.7.4-6.1.fc2.fr.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e42d547b

Warning:package speex = 1.0.3-2.1 was already added, replacing with speex <=1.15-1

error: Failed dependencies:
speex = 1.0.3-2.1 is needed by speex-devel-1.0.3-2.1
libdv.so.4 is needed by (installed) gstreamer-plugings-0.8.1-1
libdv.so.4 is needed by (installed) dvgrab-1.5-2
libdv.so.4 is needed by (installed) pwlib-1.6.5-1
speex = 1.0.3-2.1 is needed by (installed) speex-devel-1.0.3-2.1


Thank you for reading

P.S I have not got my computer to connect to the net yet as i have a alcatel speed touch usb modem (green frog) so i can't yum or up2date.

[lukastris]

I'm getting the same indications while trying to install vlc. I am using FC2 on a dell notebook. I downloaded the tar package and FC update. after decompressing the files I used the rpm command and got the exact readout as the other guy. Please provide assistance, any would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Would be great if you can e-mail step-by-step to shingli82@yahoo.com

[Anonymous but helping]

you just have to satisfy all those dependencies with the appropiate packages. Some of them are not included in the -updates pack you downloaded so you have to download them separately.

I'd recoomend to use a repository in the internet (sorry you will be almost unarmed without an inet connection) like rpm.pbone.net or http://www.romfind.net . Just enter in the search window the name of the missing library and it will show you tons of rpms including it. Try to select the one correspondiing to your distro (so you won't find new dependency problems between the new package version and what your distro installed), rpm -Uvh it and there you go.

I normally put all packages in one dir and do a rpm -Uvh *. So you don't have to install them one by one...

good luck!

[me again]

http://www.rpmfind.net !!!

[one]

Thank you for answering whoever you are.

I'll try and download the missing files and post here weather i succeed or not.

One more thing, Are all programs on the net for linux come with missing dependencies? or is it fedora? I only ask cause i only tryed two distros and iam a newbie and don't have any experience installing stuff.

Also anyone care to throw in what they consider to be a good first linux distro?

Thanks again for answering.

[one]

Hello again.

I've downloaded two rpms (speex-1.0.3-2.1.i386.rpm & libdv-0.101-2.1.i386.rpm) and it seem to fix one of the dependencies (speex = 1.0.3-2.1 is needed by speex-devel-1.0.3-2.1 ). Now i just get:

libdv.so.4 is needed by (installed) gstreamer-plugings-0.8.1-1
libdv.so.4 is needed by (installed) dvgrab-1.5-2
libdv.so.4 is needed by (installed) pwlib-1.6.5-1

I've done a search and it points to libdv-0.101-2.1.i386.rpm as the right rpm pack but it's stll asking for libdv.so.4 so iam stomped.

Anyone know what libdv.so.4 is and where i can get it? I've searched but can't find the rpm

Thanks for reading