I was using THIS guide to install restricted multimedia codecs. I got to the part where I had to switch system packages to the Packman packages. It came up with a number of dependency errors. I then had a stupid moment and told it to ignore the dependencies and break the applications. Now Xine won’t even start, and Amarok seems to have disappeared on my computer. Oh and I also got a bunch of weird dependency problems when I was trying to install some of the packages from Packman too as listed on the guide. I also told it to ignore them when it couldn’t find the dependencies. I’m scared I fudged multimedia up so badly I would have to do a clean install to get it back.
BTW, I’m running openSUSE 11.2. I don’t know if there are other specifications that matter.
That kind of helped, but I wasn’t totally happy with the result. Since I had everything recently backed up, I just did a clean install and followed the guide again. This time it went without a hitch. I think I might have also fudged some steps when I was first doing it.