Totem=noshow

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Gene Heskett wrote:

> On Monday 04 December 2006 07:50, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>> On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>> On Sunday 03 December 2006 21:28, Les Mikesell wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 19:53, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>>> What can I replace totem with that will work?
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm plumb out of patience with its I can't play this messages that
>>>>> do not tell you what it can't play.
>>>>
>>>> Try enabling the livna repository and installing vlc.  It will play
>>>> about anything you throw at it.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>  Les Mikesell
>>>>   lesmikesell at gmail.com
>>>
>>> My current theory is that while rpm thinks there is a java installed,
>>> all the /usr/lib/java* subdirs are empty.
>>>
>>> So I truck meself off the the Sun site and dl
>>> jdk-1_5_0_10-linux.rpm.bin, the very latest, shinyest version there.
>>> But would you believe it was packed with rpm-4.0.4?  And it gives the
>>> current 4.4.2, a segfault tummy ache.  Repeatedly.
>>>
>>> So now I'm back to get the other package to see what falls out of the
>>> regular linux.bin file.
>>>
>>>
>>> Ok, that unpacked, now where can I find a .spec file so that I can
>>> pack it with the newer rpm & then install it?  Or is that not the
>>> correct procedure now?
>>
>> http://jpackage.org.
>
> Ok, got the jpackage.repo, but yumex is having a litter of kittens:
>[...]
>
> So there is no FC5 or FC6 mirrors.
>
> Next?

I'd just download the one RPM from the Web site.  I don't think there are 
any dependencies to worry about and you are rebuilding the binary RPM 
anyway.

There are some jpackage derivatives in FC, so last I read (in FC5), adding 
jpackage as a repo and running updates was "considered harmful" unless you 
wanted to go all jpackage for those RPMs.

-- 
 		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs