Missing Dependencies

[Paul Higgins]

Are you sure you don't mean apt-get?  Because the apt package (as opposed to 
apt-get) sounds seriously half-baked.  Here's part of the very brief manpage 
for apt:

"APT  is  a management system for software packages.  It is still under 
development; the snazzy front ends are  not  yet  available.   In the 
meantime, please see apt-get(8)."

and:

"This manpage isn’t even started."

Try "man apt-get" and you should get a little more satisfaction.

I never had any trouble with mplayer when installing, so I really can't 
comment on your experience; however, for me, actually _using_ mplayer proved 
to be problematic.  So far, all it does is crash on launch.  I'm not yet 
brave enough to compile big multimedia apps like mplayer from source, which 
is likely the best way to actually get it working.  Instead, I took the 
advice of people on this list and installed xine, which does work very well.

In addition to using yum and apt-get at the command line, I also use Synaptic, 
which is a tool from Debian.  I've been particularly spoiled by Synaptic--my 
work machine runs Debian 3.1r2 ("Sarge"), and it's practically the only thing 
I use on that machine.  Synaptic has been ported to Fedora and therefore YDL, 
and I haven't regretted installing it.  It's a very nice GUI version of 
apt-get, and it can install .deb and .rpm packages, in both source and 
executable forms.

You might want to see what's available using these tools first before you 
compile anything.  (The repository list for apt-get and Synaptic is located 
in /etc/apt/sources.list).

-PRH

On Tuesday 12 September 2006 01:43, Justin Hill wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I'm a linux noob. Yay.
>
> Anyways, I have had trouble installing almost everything I've tried. I
> seem to be missing a whole lot of dependencies for apps such as apt,
> mplayer and xmms. I figure I just need to find some new repositories to
> add to my yum.conf file. For example, when I tried installing apt via
> yum, I got this:
> Error: Missing Dependency: libreadline.so.4 is needed by package apt
> Error: Missing Dependency: librpmio-4.3.so is needed by package apt
> Error: Missing Dependency: librpmdb-4.3.so is needed by package apt
> Error: Missing Dependency: librpm-4.3.so is needed by package apt
>
> And when trying to compile the XMMS source, I got this:
> checking for C compiler default output... configure: error: C compiler
> cannot create executables
>
> When trying to install mplayer via yum, I got this:
> Error: Missing Dependency: libfribidi.so.0 is needed by package mplayer
> Error: Missing Dependency: libxmms.so.1 is needed by package mplayer
>
> Hmmm...I've searched through the forums, but haven't found any answers,
> so any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.