I'm brand new to linux

[Ford Prefect]

... just installed my first distro yesterday, eeedora, the fedora 8 based project for the eee pc and I like it a lot. I've always used windows in the past but considering the limited amount of hard drive space and the fact that I've been wanting to give the linux stuff a shot forever I though I might as well make the switch now. I want to actually learn this stuff so I thought it'd be best to go with a something hopefully a bit more true to linux than eeebuntu or some of the other alternatives. Maybe that's not true, just the impression I had.


Anyways, it's been fine so far. Skype, GIMP, deluge, open office, wireless, figured out how to download/configure all that, but I'm having quite a bit of trouble with vlc and the audio in general.

Eeedora comes with pulseaudio, but when I try and download vlc it says I first need some pulse audio files. I try to download the missing files, no luck. So I remove pulse and try and download it again, thinking this time it might come with the need dependencies.

Try and download pulse audio again and...

Error: Missing Dependency: pulseaudio-core-libs = 0.9.7-0.17.svn20071017.fc8 is needed by package pulseaudio
Error: Missing Dependency: libpulsecore.so.4 is needed by package pulseaudio


Soo I try and find the pulseaudio-core-libs-0.9.7-0.17.svn20071017.fc8.i386.rpm
and it tells me I already have something newer on my system.


What am I supposed to do?

Thanks.


-F☺rd

[BiOPSY]

Lets try to uncomplicate matters here, try this first:
yum install vlc

If this does not work, check your Yellowdog Update Manager repository settings.

The error message you are showing, doesn't look like an installation operation, it looks like a removal operation.

[Ford Prefect]

tried vlc again and came away with this:

Error: Missing Dependency: libpulse.so.0(PULSE_0) is needed by package vlc


not exactly sure how to do the other part, buut a yum check-update told me this:


fedora-release.noarch 8-6.transition updates
flac.i386 2:1.2.1-1_14.fc8 atrpms
fuse.i386 2.7.4-8_10.fc8 atrpms
fuse-libs.i386 2.7.4-8_10.fc8 atrpms
libraw1394.i386 1.3.0-8_11.fc8 atrpms
livna-release.noarch 8-2 livna

Thanks!


-F☺rd

perhaps a 'yum upgrade' ? sometimes the updates are far enough behind that an upgrade is needed, if this doesn't work then you will probably have to remove a few packages before moving on

[BiOPSY]

Try this instead:
yum install vlc pulseaudio-libs

Without pressing 'y' for install, post th eoutput, and then press 'y' for install, and post any errors you recieve.

Livna repository and Fedora updates have all the required packages, are you trying to install VLC from a binary or an RPM file directly?

[Ford Prefect]

Originally Posted by BiOPSY

Try this instead:
yum install vlc pulseaudio-libs

Without pressing 'y' for install, post th eoutput, and then press 'y' for install, and post any errors you recieve.

Livna repository and Fedora updates have all the required packages, are you trying to install VLC from a binary or an RPM file directly?

Didn't even get that far:

Package pulseaudio-libs - 0.9.7-0.17.svn20071017.fc8.i386 is already installed.
Nothing to do

Originally Posted by MR FLIBBLE

perhaps a 'yum upgrade' ? sometimes the updates are far enough behind that an upgrade is needed, if this doesn't work then you will probably have to remove a few packages before moving on

Tried and got...

Error: Missing Dependency: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26.6-49.fc8 is needed by package fuse-kmdl-2.6.26.6-49.fc8



This sucks. I think I might just install a fresh copy and go from there.

-F☺rd

[BiOPSY]

You sure you included both the "vlc" and "pulseaudio-libs" package names on the yum install command line?

Did it not print anything out for VLC?

[Ford Prefect]

Originally Posted by BiOPSY

You sure you included both the "vlc" and "pulseaudio-libs" package names on the yum install command line?

Did it not print anything out for VLC?

Ooops, forgot to include the vlc part. With that included I get this error:

Error: Missing Dependency: libpulse.so.0(PULSE_0) is needed by package vlc


-F☺rd

[BiOPSY]

Alright man, I'm losing my patience, read this good, run this command:
yum install vlc pulseaudio-libs

Then give us the data it says, DO NOT RUN JUST YUM INSTALL VLC OR YUM INSTALL PULSEAUDIO-LIBS.

Get it?

[PirateJoe]

Originally Posted by Ford Prefect

Tried and got...

Error: Missing Dependency: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26.6-49.fc8 is needed by package fuse-kmdl-2.6.26.6-49.fc8



This sucks. I think I might just install a fresh copy and go from there.

-F☺rd

Seems to me this is very bad. Or possibly not that bad at all. whats the output of `ls /boot'?