Fedora 16 and Chromium

[Roger]

>
> 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

Thanks Ruy will give it a go
Roger
>
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