Missing Dependency on RHEL/Fedora/CentOS: libcucul.so.0 is needed by package mplayer

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I’ve been trying to get MPlayer installed on my server, and I finally had some success at it. So, I’ll share what I’ve learned:

The problem would seem to be some glitches in the various repositories that prevent MPlayer from compiling properly. You can have the libcaca, caca-utils, and libcaca-devel RPM’s installed, and it STILL fails to resolve the dependency.

The libcucul.so.0 dependency error was solved, in my case, by enabling the RPMFusion repos and THEN installing MPlayer via yum. I did, and managed to FINALLY get mplayer working.

I hope this helps somebody else avoid the four hours I spent researching this. :)

Continue reading » · Written on: 02-17-09 · 10 Comments »

10 Responses to “Missing Dependency on RHEL/Fedora/CentOS: libcucul.so.0 is needed by package mplayer”

  1. Puneet wrote:

    Cool. This worked.

    Thanks

     May 21st, 2009 at 5:13 am
  2. WintelAdmin wrote:

    Nice. This thing was driving me crazy for 2 hours. Especially the libcucul.so.0 dependency error.

     June 6th, 2009 at 4:28 am
  3. Abhay wrote:

    Oh Dear Jes…..Thank God, People like such are there on the earth to share their thoughts with us…
    Thanx again….

     June 9th, 2009 at 12:12 am
  4. Ange wrote:

    No dice for me after getting both RPMFusion repos (free & non-free). Getting the libcucul.so.0 dep issue here. Maybe it’s broken again…

     July 21st, 2009 at 10:21 am
  5. Praveen wrote:

    hi buddy this is not helped me.. i am using rhel 5.1 version of linux. its showing dependencies of Missing Dependency: libcucul.so.0 is needed by package vlc
    Missing Dependency: libdvdread.so.3 is needed by package vlc

     August 1st, 2009 at 11:47 am
  6. JohnnyP wrote:

    Perfect! Thank you for your informative post.

     August 29th, 2009 at 7:41 am
  7. Naveen wrote:

    Thanks a million

     October 19th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
  8. John Wayne wrote:

    Hasn’t helpt me a bit with Debian. What the fuck is libcucul and where do I get the source?

     December 17th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
  9. Brandon Dawson wrote:

    “John Wayne”:

    Try:

    sudo su apt-get install libcucul-dev

    Or, simply install mplayer via synaptic. If libcucul-dev doesn’t come with it, snag it via synaptic also.

     December 17th, 2009 at 2:52 pm
  10. Gary wrote:

    Thanks! I had to do this in addition to the enabling the RPMFusion repos:

    yum remove faad2 faac

    Which removed the following:
    Erasing : faac
    Erasing : libquicktime
    Erasing : cinelerra
    Erasing : ffmpeg-libpostproc
    Erasing : mjpegtools
    Erasing : ffmpeg
    Erasing : faad2

     January 20th, 2010 at 4:22 pm

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