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[root@miskatonic tmp]# rpm -i mplayer-gui-0.90rc4-2.i386.rpm 
error: failed dependencies:
	mplayer-skin is needed by mplayer-gui-0.90rc4-2
[root@miskatonic tmp]# rpm -i mplayer-skin-default-1.6-3.noarch.rpm 
error: failed dependencies:
	mplayer-gui is needed by mplayer-skin-default-1.6-3

Sigh. I guess I’ll stick with the console version.

Posted 2nd March 2003 at 2:47 pm

This is Dependencies suck by Simon Willison, posted on 2nd March 2003.

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You can install multiple RPMs at once, and that is the way to resolve circular dependancies. rpm -i mplayer-gui-0.90rc4-2.i386.rpm mplayer-skin-default-1.6-3.noarch.rpm
David Dorward - 2nd March 2003 15:19 - #
Aaah, thanks for that :)
Simon Willison - 2nd March 2003 15:29 - #
if only every linux distro had apt/portage
Gavin Dearden - 2nd March 2003 19:58 - #
It's a bit stupid that the skin has a dependency on the gui. Sure, the skin is useless without the gui, but it doesn't _require_ it. Silly pacakgers, IMHO :)
Richard Jones - 2nd March 2003 20:51 - #
Or you can also do the --nodeps option, to sidestep circular ones (e.g. upgrading mozilla). Use cautiously.
Joe Grossberg - 3rd March 2003 18:50 - #
Do you mean Linux suck? Cause when something sucks in Windows, you go on and on about how Microsoft sucks? Why do just stop there and say dependencies suck, rather than going more and claiming that Linux suck? Is it because your bashing of Microsoft makes you more believable and make you look like an authority over vast number of operating system issues, even the ones in the ATM industry.

Oh wait, there is more? You are a standards guy right? Why don't you rant about standards here? Just use the word standard randomly here and there and say that we need standards on Linux and claim that every vendor out there is stupid. Why didn't you do that?

Sergio - 29th January 2004 23:01 - #
how to install filename.noarch.rpm. i am using fc3. have tried it twice. it gives back the comment saying it cannot be installed.
bharatt - 23rd November 2005 06:03 - #
I am looking 4 mplayer dependencies. Help!
Noko - 13th March 2006 09:11 - #

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