[SWLUG] can anyone help? Installing avi-xmms

[dan]

Telsa Gwynne wrote:

>On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 11:03:24AM +0000 or thereabouts, dan wrote:
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>>Peter Prior wrote:
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>>>Do you have gcc installed ?
>>>you can check by doing: rpm -qa |grep gcc
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>>yeha i think so
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>>[dan at localhost ~]$ rpm -qa |grep gcc
>>gcc-3.0.4-3
>>libgcc-3.4.3-4
>>[dan at localhost ~]$
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>There is something horribly wrong here. Generally, different rpms
>which go together should be the same version number (because they 
>all came from the same source originally). So "foo", "libfoo" and
>"foo-devel" should all have the same version number.
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>Your gcc packages don't match each other, let alone what I would 
>expect to see on Fedora Core 3. I have gcc-3.4.2-6.fc3 and friends,
>for what it's worth, on FC3.
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>I have the nasty feeling that you installed these using a --force
>or a --nodeps option to rpm. Did you? 
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>Out of curiosity, does "rpm -V gcc libgcc" report anything, or 
>only silence? (-V is --verify).
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>Incidentally, my earlier message seems not to have arrived yet;
>but is the point of this exercise to learn how to compile, or to
>get something onto the machine which will play video files? If
>it's the latter, there is lots ready-compiled for Fedora, and
>it will be faster to get one of those from a reputable rpm site.
>http://freshrpms.net/ is a good start: look for totem, xine or
>mplayer. If you use Gnome, you probably want totem. 
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>Telsa
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aah apprently i installed the wrong ones... ooppsss  well i am learning 
very quickly now