That ole Livna Problem/That ole VLC Problem
Craig White
craig at tobyhouse.com
Wed Jan 16 16:30:29 UTC 2008
On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 10:24 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>
> >>>>>> $ wget -c http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm
> >>>>>> $ rpm -ivh livna-release-8.rpm
> >>>>> last time i looked, you could do all that in one step:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> # rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm
> >>>> Yeah, see my other reply from two minutes before yours. ;) There
> >>>> has been a thread on fedora-devel some time ago where Panu mentioned
> >>>> that this feature would/might be dropped from RPM. Further, it's a
> >>>> bad habit of mine to suggest wget/curl plus rpm because with that
> >>>> combination, a copy of the downloaded package is saved in local dir
> >>>> and can be reused in error conditions, whereas rpm works with a tmp
> >>>> file. (not so important for tiny files, though)
> >>>
> >>> true enough. i actually would never use the above shortcut for
> >>> anything but the most minor of downloads and installs.
> >>
> >> Or you can just click on it in a browser and let the browser run rpm
> >> for you. Unless you just like to type...
> >>
> > And I have been thinking that up to last week, I could get vlc any
> > time I wanted. I am sure things are different now. And I am sure it will
> > get easy again soon.
>
> Seeing as how no one else has a problem, it isn't likely to get easy
> until you fix whatever you've done wrong. You've posted 2 real errors
> so far: an rpm version-numbering conflict between parts from freshrpms
> and livna, and a missing gpg key for livna, either of which could be
> fixed in minutes. The rest is mostly rambling about nothing in
> particular. Are you getting some real error when you download or
> install that livna-release-8.rpm? If so, what is it? After installing,
> yum should continue past the last error you posted.
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Les, you are forgetting that this is your poster boy for proving what is
wrong with Fedora java integration.
Craig
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