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Dependencies suck

2nd March 2003


[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 · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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