GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 145602
gstreamer-universe install broken for FC2 yum
Last modified: 2005-06-30 15:13:55 UTC
Follow the instructions on the gstreamer download page for Fedora Core 2 to the point where you enter: yum install gstreamer-universe to receive the following errors: ........Unable to satisfy dependencies Package gstreamer-plugins-extra-video needs libfame-0.9.so.0, this is not available. Package gstreamer06-plugins-extra-video needs libfame-0.9.so.0, this is not available. Package gstreamer-GConf needs gstreamer-plugins = 0.8.1, this is not available. even though FC2 has a later version of libfame(libfame-0.9.so.1) already installed by default I resolved the libfame issue with rpm -ivh --force libfame-0.9.0-1.i386.rpm (I'm not sure if the bug here is on the gstreamer side for not supporting the newer version of libfame or if the bug is in the libfame rpm for not providing a link to the older libfame-0.9.so.0. Anyone care to comment?) Unfortunately the GConf dependancy for gstreamer-plugins = 0.8.1 was not so easy to resolve. FC2 ships with gstreamer-plugins-0.8.1-1 which IMHO should have satisfied the GConf dependancy requirement but it doesn't. Given my previous success with rpm --force I even tried rpm -ivh --force gstreamer-plugins-0.8.1-0.fdr.2.2.i386.rpm but that certainly didn't help matters at all. Are there any yum or rpm hackers out there that could explain what's wrong and how to fix this? Thanks
Hi, a few remarks - libfame is most certainly not in FC2 base, it's an MPEG encoder. So you have that from an additional repo, which leads me to assume you are mixing repos. Can you tell me which repo this libfame was coming from ? - never use --force unless you really know what you are doing with it. It messes up your consistency and /usr installs. - gstreamer-GConf is a long obsoleted package, I'm assuming you have really old packages lying around somewhere. Could you do an rpm -qa | grep gstreamer so I have some idea on what sort of stuff you have on your system ? Maybe also attach output of gst-feedback
Can you list the yum repositories in your /etc/yum.conf
I don't use yum, I use apt. Please reply to the questions so I can help you further.
Sorry for the slow reply, I have been miles away from the internet for the last day or two, but I'm back now. You are correct that I likely have rpm's from mixed repositories on my system. I can post all the information requested when I get back home to my computer tonight (I could also post all the rpm's in question on a site where they could be downloaded directly). But, I think I'll first throw a new hard drive in my box and start fresh with a completely fresh FC2 install. Perhaps I'll even use two drives one to test yum and the other to test apt get. That way we will know for sure we are all working from a well known state. I'd first like to establish at least one well known and easily repeatable way to get things working then we can chase corner case issues like rouge rpm's and the like afterwords if needed.
My bad... I must have had a bad mix of rpm's. I did a fresh install of FC2 and followed the instructions for installing gstreamer-universe and it seemed to work nearly flawlessly. I did get one error while it was installing packages which I'm not sure if I need to be concerned about. Here it is... ... gstreamer-editor 100 % done 25/44 /sbin/ldconfig: Input file /usr/lib/libnautilus-extension.so.1.0.0.#prelink#.mYpq15 not found. faad2 100 % done 26/44 ... I'm guessing that shouldn't affect anything outside of nautilus so I'm not too worried about that little hiccup installing faad2 for now as I plan to test directly with gst-player and totem for the next while. As a sanity check I ran a few sample files with gst-player from ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/samples/ with the following results: Played ogg/Vorbis/coyote.ogg Failed ogg/Theora/theora.ogg Played MOV/escapela.mov Failed avi/verona60avi56k.avi Failed game-formats/DUCK/sonic3dblast_intro.avi So I'm at less than a 50% success rate on a very small sample so far does that sound about like what should be expected? Are there any samples available that are known to work so I could validate my install a bit. If not, I plan to just continue testing more samples from this site over the weekend and post a summary of the results to the developers mailing list...
closing as it seems the RPM issue was resolved please open separate bugs for any media file not playing with recent version of gstreamer