it turned out that dag repositories is already listed in
my SL5.2 installation, i.e. I have the file /etc/yum.repos.d/dag.repo
but inside it had the line
 enabled=0
I changed to
 enabled=1
and now 
 yum install vlc
works.
Stefano

On 1/23/2009 4:28 PM, Stefano Belforte wrote:
> http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/vlc/
> seems down (at least now) anyhow
> according to VLAN site the dagwieers stuff is for
> Fedore 1,2,3 i.e. before LS5, one should use "You can have 0.8.5 here 
> for FC 4 and 5 on FreshRPMs."
> BUt the rpm from there complaints about a zilion missing
> dependencies:
> 
> On 1/2[root@SL51 belforte]# rpm -iv 
> http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/fedora/linu
> x/5/videolan-client/videolan-client-0.8.5-2.fc5.i386.rpm
> Retrieving 
> http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/fedora/linux/5/videolan-client
> /videolan-client-0.8.5-2.fc5.i386.rpm
> warning: /var/tmp/rpm-xfer.kEFSJV: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key 
> ID e42d54
> 7b
> error: Failed dependencies:
>       libSDL_image-1.2.so.0 is needed by videolan-client-0.8.5-2.fc5.i386
>       liba52.so.0 is needed by videolan-client-0.8.5-2.fc5.i386
>       libaa.so.1 is needed by videolan-client-0.8.5-2.fc5.i386
>       libcddb.so.2 is needed by videolan-client-0.8.5-2.fc5.i386
>       libcdio.so.6 is needed by videolan-client-0.8.5-2.fc5.i386
>       libdbus-1.so.2 is needed by videolan-client-0.8.5-2.fc5.i386
>       libdvbpsi.so.4 is needed by videolan-client-0.8.5-2.fc5.i386
>       libdvdnav.so.4 is needed by videolan-client-0.8.5-2.fc5.i386
>       libdvdread.so.3 is needed by videolan-client-0.8.5-2.fc5.i386
>       libebml.so.0 is needed by videolan-client-0.8.5-2.fc5.i386
>       libfaac.so.0 is needed by videolan-client-0.8.5-2.fc5.i386
>       libfaad.so.0 is needed by videolan-client-0.8.5-2.fc5.i386
>       libgnutls.so.12 is needed by videolan-client-0.8.5-2.fc5.i386
>       libgnutls.so.12(GNUTLS_1_2) is needed by 
> videolan-client-0.8.5-2.fc5.i38
> 6
>       libiso9660.so.4 is needed by videolan-client-0.8.5-2.fc5.i386
>       liblirc_client.so.0 is needed by videolan-client-0.8.5-2.fc5.i386
>       libmatroska.so.0 is needed by videolan-client-0.8.5-2.fc5.i386
>       libmodplug.so.0 is needed by videolan-client-0.8.5-2.fc5.i386
>       libmpcdec.so.3 is needed by videolan-client-0.8.5-2.fc5.i386
>       libmpeg2.so.0 is needed by videolan-client-0.8.5-2.fc5.i386
>       libopendaap.so.0 is needed by videolan-client-0.8.5-2.fc5.i386
>       libvcdinfo.so.0 is needed by videolan-client-0.8.5-2.fc5.i386
>       libwx_baseu-2.6.so.0 is needed by videolan-client-0.8.5-2.fc5.i386
>       libwx_baseu-2.6.so.0(WXU_2.6) is needed by 
> videolan-client-0.8.5-2.fc5.i
> 386
>       libwx_baseu_net-2.6.so.0 is needed by 
> videolan-client-0.8.5-2.fc5.i386
>       libwx_baseu_xml-2.6.so.0 is needed by 
> videolan-client-0.8.5-2.fc5.i386
>       libwx_gtk2u_adv-2.6.so.0 is needed by 
> videolan-client-0.8.5-2.fc5.i386
>       libwx_gtk2u_adv-2.6.so.0(WXU_2.6) is needed by 
> videolan-client-0.8.5-2.f
> c5.i386
>       libwx_gtk2u_core-2.6.so.0 is needed by 
> videolan-client-0.8.5-2.fc5.i386
>       libwx_gtk2u_core-2.6.so.0(WXU_2.6) is needed by 
> videolan-client-0.8.5-2.
> fc5.i386
>       libwx_gtk2u_core-2.6.so.0(WXU_2.6.2) is needed by 
> videolan-client-0.8.5-
> 2.fc5.i386
>       libwx_gtk2u_html-2.6.so.0 is needed by 
> videolan-client-0.8.5-2.fc5.i386
>       libwx_gtk2u_qa-2.6.so.0 is needed by videolan-client-0.8.5-2.fc5.i386
>       libwx_gtk2u_xrc-2.6.so.0 is needed by 
> videolan-client-0.8.5-2.fc5.i386
>       libxosd.so.2 is needed by videolan-client-0.8.5-2.fc5.i386
> [root@SL51 belforte]#
> 
> 3/2009 3:54 PM, Alessio Curri wrote:
>> Stefano Belforte wrote:
>>> Are there plans to make VLC available ?
>>> It is a very good multimedia player, but no RPM for SL are available yet
>>> http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
>>>
>>> Stefano
>>>
>>>   
>> you can use the dag repository
>>
>> http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/vlc/
>>
>> Alessio
>>
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