On 13/07/13 08:15, Yasha Karant wrote:
> On 07/12/2013 05:38 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote:
>> On 07/12/2013 01:05 PM, Yasha Karant wrote:
>>> The issue is that the application would not pass configure without
>>> disabling these options.  I have tried the various pre-built RPMs for
>>> vlc that have been mentioned, but all the ones that I have found have
>>> dependencies that cause conflicts with other versions of the same
>>> dependency (typically, some .so package).  Because the linux application
>>> environment is not polymorphic with encapsulation, one cannot have both
>>> versions of some such dependency installed.
>>
>> Hi Yasha,
>>
>>     It was a total pain in the butt the first few times
>> through.  I had to do a lot of "rpm -e xxx" and waiting
>> until yum would finally stop bitching.
>>
>>     I did get there eventually and haven't had a problem
>> since.  Stick to it and you will get there too.
>>
>> -T
>
> Hi Todd,
>
> My understanding is that your procedure can result in system instability
> because of the lack of polymorphism and encapsulation.  If one uses
> repositories other than those from SL6 or from those repositories that
> claim the use thereof will not introduce stock (SL6x) incompatibilities,
> then getting an application that requires such incompatible RPMs may
> cause problems.  The solution of erasing the conflicting RPM and
> presumably loading a replacement RPM that is not part of the stock
> compatible distribution can "break" other applications that are
> dependent upon such RPMs.
>
> Building from a SRPM probably will not solve the problem because the
> source RPM presumably requires the same RPMs (or SRPMs) that either do
> not exist for stock SL6x or conflict with stock SL6x RPMs.  Again -- are
> there any SL6x compatible source packages or installable RPMs that
> supply the functionalities that I had to disable in building the current
> production vlc application from source?
>
> Yasha Karant
>
I have vlc 2.0.7 installed on my SL6 i686 laptop.  It's from rpmfusion, 
which has, I understand, stricter policies on compliance than ATrpms.  I 
don't know what, if any, restrictions were applied in the build, and I 
haven't tried it on many file formats, but it works well for me.  Have 
you tried/considered it?

Perhaps I should add that I'm also using an elrepo kernel and kde-unstable.

Here's the 64-bit version. extras, devel are there too.

http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/el/updates/testing/6/x86_64/vlc-2.0.7-1.el6.x86_64.rpm

John P