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I have managed to setup an installation source on a SLES10 64 server but when Itry to install the vlc-video lan client from Software Management , it fails with the following:

vlc-0.8.6c-3.3.x86_64[20071001-104958] cannot be installed due to missing dependenciesThere are no installable providers of libdbus-1.so.3()(64bit) for vlc-0.8.6c-3.3.x86_64[20071001-104958]

vlc-beta-0.9.0-2.1586[20071001-104958] conflicts with other resolvablesvlc-beta-0.9.0-2.1586[20071001-104958] conflicts with vlc-0.8.6c-3.3.x86_64[20071001-104958]

vlc-beta-0.9.0-2.1586[20071001-104958] conflicts with other resolvables
vlc-beta-0.9.0-2.1586[20071001-104958] conflicts with vlc-0.8.6c-3.3.x86_64[20071001-104958]


I have tried to find the libdbus-1.so.3 to no avail

if i try to select 'do not install vlc-beta' it just ignores and gives the same error again.

Can anyone help please.

Are you certain you selected the 10.1 repository and not the 10.0?
SLES and SLED 10 are based on SUSE Linux 10.1, and not as the name would revel, on 10.0.

And you can not install vlc and vlc-beta together; they are exclusive to each other.

hey,

I've just seen that you were the user that already had trouble adding the Repository first. Good that this one is solved at all

Now back to SLES 10 (from your other post I can see that you really use the 10.1 repo):
SLES in fact is missing several libs (well, it's meant for servers and does not provide everything for a multimedia experiance at all). The easiest solution for you might be the tip we give to all SUSE Linux 10.1 users as well: also add a online repo of !0.1.

You can find one here:
http://ftp4.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse /distribution/SL-10.1/inst-source/suse

There, all depending libs should be available (I suggest you be careful in case some libs would be changed in version, which generally should not happen.. but who knows; maybe you have a test server for it? I unfortunately do not have access to a SLES box).

Thanks everyone for your advice and help. I have finally given up trying to get VLC installed on SLES10. Instead i have resorted to OpenSuse 10.2, and VLC installed first time with no probs whatsoever.

Thanks