Installing VLC on Acer Aspire One?

Question

Hi. I've been trying to install VLC player on my new Acer Aspire One for about 3 hours now, but nothing is working. I've downloaded things and tried the 'yum' method, but so far, nothing has worked. The operating system is Linpus Linux Lite.

It keeps saying "Missing Dependency: libpulse.so.0, Missing Dependency: libdc1394.so.22, Missing Dependency: libdvdnav.so.4"

Anyone know what's going wrong?

Thanks for any helpful answers.

Answer 1

The bottom two links talk about you problem, especially the bottom one.

They should help. Also download the VLC from top link.

http://en.kioskea.net/telecharger/telecharger-34-vlc

http://www.linuxhaxor.net/2008/09/15/linpus-linux-lite-review/

http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=13&p=178151

Answer 2

Ah, Linpus. You're going to be frustrated by that, and might want to check out Ubuntu Netbook Remix instead. It's based on Debian instead of Redhat, and is alot more tested, more frequently updated, has far more software, and actually has an active an enthusiastic community. Linpus is really not a very good introduction to Linux, to be frank, and I wish netbook vendors wouldn't ship these odd custom-made distros that often never even work well.



You could see if you have pulse audio fully installed, I guess, but you might just be in Linux's version of dependency hell. Sorry, but Linpus might just currently be broken. Try Googling your error message, and see what others are doing as a workaround... might be common. Or, just install Mplayer!



Ubuntu for netbooks:

http://www.canonical.com/projects/ubuntu/nbr

Answer 3

You can download VLC here: http://bitly.com/1lqh8r6



VLC (video lan connect) is a great open source software to play any types of video files. VLC has a built in dvd decodere and works with many different video and audio formats including OGG, MP2, MP3, MP4, DivX, HD codecs like AES3, Raw Dirac, and even support for playing back zipped files.



When the built-in media player doesn't work, use VLC. It's my favourite media player and I highly recommend it over any other audio/video player

Answer 4

This is just a guess but I think that VLC media player is only compatible with Windows or Mac operating systems, therefore it won't install on a computer running Linux. Seems the only reasonable explanation to me. P.S. I've got an Acer laptop as well but I'm running Windows on it and I've installed VLC media player with no problems at all.

Answer 5

The other night, I was reading the Microsoft Vista forums and one user suggested Support KB 314060 for resolving unknown CD/DVD drives. While the link refers to XP, some people tried the suggestion for Vista which resolved the issue.