[vorbis] redhat vorbis install

[Eric Seppanen]

I hope I'm not being an idiot, but I'm attempting to install vorbis-1.0 
RPMs on a few redhat machines and failing horribly.  I'm in dependency 
hell.

For starters, libao-0.8.3-1 requires libasound.so.2 (an alsa library?) 
which does not seem to be available in any recent redhat releases.

Then vorbis-tools wants libcurl.so.2, which makes redhat 7.2 machines 
choke.

Worst of all is that there's a boadload of packages depending on 
(since-renamed) vorbis libs:

        libvorbisenc.so.0   is needed by kdebase-2.2.2-1
        libvorbisfile.so.0   is needed by SDL_mixer-1.2.0-4
        libvorbisfile.so.0   is needed by xmms-1.2.5-7
        libvorbisfile.so.0   is needed by tuxracer-0.61-5
        libvorbisfile.so.0   is needed by kdemultimedia-2.2.2-2

So, my question is: is it possible to upgrade redhat 7.3 machines using 
RPMs?  The vorbis.com download page seems to imply this is possible.  But 
it doesn't seem as though I'm going to succeed without forcing a bunch of 
broken dependencies or conflicting packages to coexist.

I'm hoping that a few of the library-version issues could be paranoia 
(meaning I can symlink to an older/newer version), or that perhaps I could 
tweak the RPM SPEC file to make a less-needy set of binaries (if, for 
example, it's possible to not link against libasound.so.2).  

I could build from source, but then I'll have a mix of RPM and non-RPM 
libraries installed, and I'd rather avoid making too much of a mess on my 
systems.  Plus I'm sure I'm not the last person who will have these 
issues, so I'm willing to go through a few contortions to find the magic 
formula so others can benefit.

Any advice?

Eric

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