After a corrupted install of kde4.1 I decided to reinstall opensuse. Now that I’ve done that I’m having trouble installing software, I keep getting conflict resolutions and I didn’t get these before I did the reinstall.
What is wrong? I can’t find the w32codecs and libdvdcss2. it very frustrating to have to do it all over again and now yast is giving me trouble.
Help!
You need Packman for w32codecs
VLC for libdvdcss2
Only install libdvdcss2 from VLC
Install the VLC player from Packman
Then disable the VLC repo
Manage your software with software management rather than software updater.
If you have a specific problem, tell us the details
You can save the confilct errors to a file - to enable you to post them here - if it’s too long, either give us the idea or put the file in pastebin or something
Make sure you have some of the additional community repositories enabled via YaST > Software > Software Repsitories. Choose ‘Add’ then select ‘Community Repositories’. You’ll need to enable the ‘Packman Repsotiory’ for full multimedia support.
The other useful way to search for and download software is via the openUSE Webpin. Choose your distro version, then search for ‘w32codec’ for example. You will get a list of ‘1-click’ packages which makes installing required packages simple.
Hope this helps.
Thanks I’ve can now play dvds with vlc. Why can’t kaffeine play the same videos? kaffeine works on my other distros. what do I have to do to get Kaffeine to work?
Any packages that you have from the vlc repo that are also in the packman repo, manually make sure they are forced to install packman version - including vlc player itself. all you will have from vlc is libdvdcss2
In particular ensure you have packman packaged libffmpeg0 and xvid and vlc and not the videolan equivalents. And of course mplayer and kaffeine from packman.
Thanks for the advice, but I’ve never had to do that before once the codecs were installed kaffeine worked. Why would opensuse be different? It should not be so difficult. For now, I’ll use vlc instead.
To get kaffeine to work properly, get rid of xinelib (Novell’s crippled version) and install libxine from packman.
how do you know if its from pacman?
In software management, when you highlight the package in the the list on the right, lower down there are tabs - details - dependencies…etc… version
In there will be all the versions available by your installed repo’s
mark the radio button for the version you want
watch out for the different 32bit and 64bit packages
An easy method (while you are grabbing packages like kaffeine and MPlayer from Packman) is to disable the other repos temporarily via YaST > Software Repositories then search for the required packages with Software Manager. You can also do this directly with the Software Manager by setting the filter to ‘Respositories’ then click on the ‘Packaman Repository’. From here, you can choose or search for the required packages.