problems installing 0.7 on linux

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drnemo

problems installing 0.7 on linux

Postby drnemo » 19 Jan 2004 11:39

Hi

I've downloaded the two RPM's from videolan.org, uncompressed them, and
when running rpm -U vlc/* --force, it say's:

error : Failed dependencies
mozilla = 35:1.2.1 is needed by (installed) galeon-1.2.7-3

What's wrong, and how do I fix it ??

BR
Anders

alie

mozilla = 35:1.2.1 is needed by (installed) galeon-1.2.7-3

Postby alie » 05 Feb 2004 18:03

I was having the same problem. I believe what's happening is that when you install VLC, some of the RPMs included in the distrubution attempt to upgrade the Mozilla web browser. Redhat Linux 9 comes with Mozilla 1.2.1, and the VLC install is attempting to upgrade it to Mozilla 1.4.1. Unfortunately the galeon web browser expects Mozilla 1.2.1 to be installed, so it won't allow the upgrade to 1.4.1.

I don't know if there is a way to force galeon to be happy with 1.4.1. My thought is that galeon would most likely work with a slightly newer version. In any event, I don't use galeon (I usually use either Mozilla or Netscape), so I simply removed galeon and then installed VLC.

If you wish to do this same thing, you can remove galeon with the command

rpm -e galeon

(the -e means erase).

Then proceed with the standard

rpm -U vlc/* --force

That should do the trick.

Good luck!

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Postby thevideomakersclub » 08 Mar 2004 04:33

Yep This works like a charm. It takes a while for the rpm precess to run about 3 mins. But it works once it is done. Just run vlc, wait a few secs for the welcome message and then you can type h for a help listing.

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