Cups problem

[Kam Leo]

On Dec 16, 2007 9:54 PM, david walcroft <d_j_w46 at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
>
> Kam Leo wrote:
[snip]
> >>>>> Craig
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>> It downloads 'x264-0-0.10.20070819.lvn8.i386.rpm'
> >>>>
> >>>>    david
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>> ----
> >>> sudo rpm -ivh \
> >>>
> >>> http://livna-dl.reloumirrors.net/fedora/8/i386/x264-0-0.10.20070819.lvn8.i386.rpm
> >>>
> >>> it wasn't a 'download' command...it was an install command. It either
> >>> installed or failed. I understood your comment to mean that it
> >>> installed.
> >>>
> >>> Craig
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >> [david at reddwarf ~]$ sudo rpm -Uvh rpm/x264-0-0.10.20070819.lvn8.i386.rpm
> >> Preparing...                ###########################################
> >> [100%]
> >>        package x264-0.0.0-0.3.20061023.fc6.i386 (which is newer than
> >> x264-0-0.10.20070819.lvn8.i386) is already installed
> >>
> >> [david at reddwarf ~]$ sudo rpm -qa | grep x264
> >> x264-0.0.0-0.3.20061023.fc6.i386
> >> [david at reddwarf ~]$
> >>
> >>  david
> >>
> >
> > No wonder your system is screwed up!  You have a mixed bag of left
> > over packages from older version(s) of Fedora. Do the following and
> > see how many FC6 packages are still installed on your system:
> >
> > rpm -qa | grep fc6
> >
> > Remove all those found and replace with the F8 packages.
> >
> > Notes:
> >
> > 1. If you have not already done so, update your Livna repository to
> > point to the F8 directory.
> >
> > 2. Repeat the above for other versions of Fedora, i.e. fc5 and/or  f7.
> >
> >
> Kam there are to many FC7 (60+) for me to handle,these must be
> left overs from my FC7 - FC8 dvd upgrade.

Redirect the output to a file, e.g. "rpm -qa | grep f7 > f7leftovers".
Do it for fc6 as well. You can use an editor to copy and paste the
unwanted package(s) to a terminal window or learn to use some neat
unix utilities such as sed or awk to operate directly on the file
contents.


>  Livna repos have '/$releasever/$basearch' in them

That's good but you need to verify that the URL is valid.

>  david