Fedora 16 and Chromium

[pringler01 at gmail.com]

On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 10:48 PM, Roger <arelem at bigpond.com> wrote:

>  Interesting problem inststalling chromium in Fedora 16
> I get an error: chromium-15.0.874.106-1.fc16.x86_64 requires
> libvpx.so.0()(64bit)
>
> yum whatprovides reports: libvpx-0.9.7.1-1.fc16.i686 : VP8 Video Codec SDK
> not the 64bit version.
>
> I have  Fedora 16 -x86_64 -  Updates and Test Updates switched on in
> software sources.
> All software is reoported up to date.
>
> I downloaded libvpx-0.9.7.1-1.fc16.x86_64.rpm<ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/linux/releases/16/Everything/x86_64/os/Packages/libvpx-0.9.7.1-1.fc16.x86_64.rpm>from
> http://rpmfind.net/  but on install I get:
> Local Install failed-- Can't install libvpx-0.9.7.1-1.fc16.x86_64(1).rpm
> as no transaction.
>
> I've run out of ideas, what does the error "no transaction" mean and how
> can it be fixed please?
> thanks in advance
> Roger
>
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> Hi, the mantainer is in a trip to FOSDEM, he say that a rebuild will
happens ASAP. The problem is that Chromium uses libvpx.0 and the recent
updates need livpx.1. He mail a workaround. I dont know if it will work (or
alot in the technical side), but here is:


1) Download the old libvpx package:

wget
http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/libvpx/0.9.7.1/1.fc16/i686/libvpx-0.9.7.1-1.fc16.i686.rpm

2) Make a temporary directory:

mkdir sandbox

3) Change into the temporary directory:

cd sandbox

4) Use rpm2cpio to unpack the rpm:

rpm2cpio libvpx-0.9.7.1-1.fc16.i686.rpm | cpio -idv

5) As root, copy the old library files into the system library path:

su -c 'cp -a ./usr/lib/* /usr/lib/'

6) Regenerate the system library cache

su -c '/sbin/ldconfig'

7) Restore the selinux contexts on the libraries

su -c 'restorecon -v /usr/lib/libvpx.so.0*'

8) At this point, chromium should run again. RPM/yum will still complain
about the chromium package missing a dependency, but that will go away
when I build the new one.

I hope this works.

Cheers, Ruy
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