have a compile problem

[Keith Antoine]

On Fri, 12 Jul 2002 03:14, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> This is because libpng.so.2 is listed as an RPM dependency, but there is
> no RPM which claims to provide it.  That is where you have to do a
> "--nodeps" and is one of the problems with RPM.  This is part of the
> advantage to using Checkinstall when installing from source.  If you
> compiled and installed libpng.so.2 with CheckInstall, all you should
> (theoretically) need to do is alter the "Provides" line to include the
> filename libpng.so.2 and you should be all set to install RPM's with deps
> for it.

I'll have to remember that one, but it is MPlayer thats not finding libpng.


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