hello *
i have tried in vain to install vlc player (video lan) on fedora 13 and these are the errors i got.
1st fedora tells me i need 'lua' which try to install but tells me its installed like you can see.

To minimise errors i disable all dependencies and lastly it tells me 'fribidi' not found.
I HAVE LEFT OUT THE VERBOSE OUTPUT.
code:
[root@myself vlc-1.1.12]#./configure
configure: error: Could not find lua. Lua is needed for some interfaces (rc, telnet, http) as well as many other custom scripts. Use --disable-lua to ignore this error.

[root@myself vlc-1.1.12]# rpm -qa lu*
lua-5.1.4-4.fc12.i686

[root@myself vlc-1.1.12]# ./configure --disable-lua --disable-mad --disable-avcodec --disable-postproc --disable-a52

configure: error: Package requirements (fribidi) were not met:

No package 'fribidi' found

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables FRIBIDI_CFLAGS
and FRIBIDI_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.
[root@myself vlc-1.1.12]#

Possible solutions : 1) # yum install vlc
From : http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration
Ref. : http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-fedora.html


Or 2) , if you really want to build it yourself :
# yum install fribidi-devel

.

fedora 13 is a DEAD version
it hit it's "End Of Life" 6 months ago
it is no longer supported .

please install the CURRENT version
fedora 15 or in 2 weeks fedora 16

also see mjm's page on installing VLC it is in the fedora 15 ( and old/unsupported 13 ) repos
http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f13.html

http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mj...a-f13.html#vlc



but fedora 13 is NOT SUPPORTED any longer

ok John VV, you make fedora 13 look very ahhh i don't know but how is "not useful" for a nice word. the issue am trying to solve is the vlc installation because i have done it on old mint8, and want to try it on fedora.

I will still follow the links thanks.

Thanks for the links i go straight into using yum to install.

All dependencies and vlc installed well but there is a conflict error how should i treat it.
i used this "yum install vlc" these are some of the error messages.




Transaction Check Error:
file /usr/lib/libfaad.so.2.0.0 from install of faad2-libs-1:2.7-1.fc11.i586 conflicts with file from package libfaad2-1:2.7-16.fc13.i686

Error Summary
-------------

[root@myself lib]#

[root@myself lib]# vlc
Command not found. Install package 'vlc-core' to provide command 'vlc'? [N/y]
* Running..
* Resolving dependencies..
* Installing packages..
The following packages have to be installed:
libebml-0.7.8-3.fc12.i686 Extensible Binary Meta Language library
live555-0-0.27.2010.04.09.fc13.i686 Live555.com streaming libraries
lirc-libs-0.8.6-7.fc13.i686 LIRC libraries
a52dec-0.7.4-15.fc11.i586 A free ATSC A/52 stream decoder
lame-libs-3.98.3-1.fc13.i686 LAME MP3 encoding library
ffmpeg-libs-0.6-3.fc13.i686 Libraries for ffmpeg
libmatroska-0.8.1-5.fc12.i686 Open audio/video container format library
libva-freeworld-0.31.1-1.sds4.fc13.i686 Video Acceleration (VA) API for Linux
twolame-libs-0.3.12-4.fc11.i586 TwoLAME is an optimised MPEG Audio Layer 2 encoding library based on tooLAME
libcddb-1.3.2-4.fc13.i686 Library (C API) for accessing CDDB servers
faad2-libs-1:2.7-1.fc11.i586 Shared libraries of the FAAD 2 AAC decoder
x264-libs-0.0.0-0.27.20100130git3659b81.fc13.i686 Library for encoding H264/AVC video streams
libmpeg2-0.5.1-8.fc12.i686 MPEG-2 decoder libraries
libdvbpsi-0.1.7-1.fc13.i686 Library for MPEG TS and DVB PSI tables decoding and generation
libvpx-0.9.6-1.fc13.i686 VP8 Video Codec SDK
fribidi-0.19.2-2.fc12.i686 Library implementing the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm
vcdimager-0.7.23-13.fc13.1.i686 VideoCD (pre-)mastering and ripping tool
libdca-0.0.5-5.fc12.i686 DTS Coherent Acoustics decoder library
xvidcore-1.2.2-2.fc13.i686 MPEG-4 Simple and Advanced Simple Profile codec
vcdimager-libs-0.7.23-13.fc13.1.i686 Libraries for vcdimager
minizip-1.2.3-23.fc12.i686 Minizip manipulates files from a .zip archive
libtiger-0.3.3-3.fc13.i686 Rendering library for Kate streams using Pango and Cairo
SDL_image-1.2.10-1.fc13.i686 Image loading library for SDL
zvbi-0.2.33-4.fc12.i686 Raw VBI, Teletext and Closed Caption decoding library
libupnp-1.6.6-3.fc12.i686 Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) SDK
Proceed with changes? [N/y]
* Waiting for authentication..
* Downloading details about the software sources...
* Running..
* Resolving dependencies..
* Downloading packages..
* Checking signatures..
* Testing changes.. The transaction failed: file-conflicts, Test Transaction Errors: file /usr/lib/libfaad.so.2.0.0 from install of faad2-libs-1:2.7-1.fc11.i586 conflicts with file from package libfaad2-1:2.7-16.fc13.i686

[root@myself lib]# ls libfaa*
libfaad.so.2 libfaad.so.2.0.0

[root@myself lib]# rpm -ev faad2-libs-1:2.7-1.fc11.i586
error: package faad2-libs-1:2.7-1.fc11.i586 is not installed
[root@myself lib]# rpm -evf faad2-libs-1:2.7-1.fc11.i586
error: package faad2-libs-1:2.7-1.fc11.i586 is not installed

you have fedora 11 programs installed on fedora 13

NOT GOOD

what you now have is a Frankensteined install
a mix of TWO or more DIFFERENT operating systems
fedora 11 IS NOT the same as fedora 13 - they ARE different OS's

there should be NO fedora 11 & 12 rpms on fedora 13 (well maybe 3 or 4 fc12 on 13 - it happens )

also please stay current and install fedora 15
or fedora 16 in about two weeks



uninstall ALL fedora 11 & 12 rpms on that fedora 13 install
to see just what is installed
run
and REMOVE every fedora 11 & 12 rpm

PS. this might not be fixable if there are more than about 15 to 20 fedora 11 and 12 rpms installed on the EOL fedora 13

You did, I hope, notice that you were installing packages from F-11 and F-12 as well as F-13.

Here's what YUM would show you if you moved to F-16. (Note the only five older, F-15, programs are listed.)

Thx *
i now vlc up and running. "yum install vlc" did it i removed the conflicts.