On 07/02/2019 07:06, Yasha Karant wrote:
> I have installed the latest VLC from
> yum install
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__dl.fedoraproject.org_pub_epel_epel-2Drelease-2Dlatest-2D7.noarch.rpm&d=DwIGaQ&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A&m=tt0QJWICwAdQhNuEHhQol8E0jpjb9LF0HoXj0RhJ-Cg&s=UokyKEAaXzuacgglhxv0zFAk9YmFqZUaMYPZ_TL5qr4&e=
> yum install
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__download1.rpmfusion.org_free_el_rpmfusion-2Dfree-2Drelease-2D7.noarch.rpm&d=DwIGaQ&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A&m=tt0QJWICwAdQhNuEHhQol8E0jpjb9LF0HoXj0RhJ-Cg&s=H87Q6eqsd_9iAq5g01Nc9hSzqRgd_4U2aHaCgWnEeZQ&e=
> yum install vlc
> 
> The vlc failed with the messages that appear below.  Based on these
> messages and a search on the web, I also did
> yum install qt4
> yum install qt5
> yum install libxkbcommon
> 
> All of the above yum install commands completed without failures.
> Nonetheless, the yum icon on the desktop does not start yum, and from a
> terminal using bash, one gets:
> 
> $ /usr/bin/vlc
> VLC media player 3.0.6 Vetinari (revision 3.0.6-0-g5803e85f73)
> [000000000163b1c0] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface.
> Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
> [00000000016f5500] skins2 interface error: cannot instantiate dialogs
> provider
> [00000000016c8e30] main playlist: playlist is empty
> [00000000016f5500] [cli] lua interface: L
> 
> I am using MATE , but will attempt this under KDE or GNOME if there is a
> reason to do that for VLC.
> 
> Any suggestions on what to do (e.g., are there one or more configuration
> files for running, not building, vlc or whatever that need to be changed?
> 
> Yasha Karant
> I would appreciate replies to [log in to unmask]

I see no problem with the version from the rpmfusion-free-updates repo

$ rpm -qa | grep vlc
vlc-3.0.6-17.el7.x86_64
vlc-core-3.0.6-17.el7.x86_64

John P