Cups problem

[david walcroft]

Kam Leo wrote:
> On Dec 16, 2007 10:43 PM, Kam Leo <kam.leo at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> On Dec 16, 2007 10:38 PM, Kam Leo <kam.leo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> 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
>>>       
>>                          ^
>>  rpm -e pasted-unwanted-package-name
>>
>> Just to clarify what I meant.
>>
>>
>>     
>>> 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
>>>>         
>
> Antti Huhtala brought to my attention an error in the above example.
> It should be "rpm -qa | grep fc7 > f7leftovers".  The Fedora packagers
> are still using fc in the suffix, even for Fedora 8.
>
>
> Thank you, Antti.
>
> Additionally, I took a quick peak at the F7 and F8 Everything
> repositories. Some fc6 packages are included as part of the F7
> distribution. For F8 a mix of fc6 and fc7 packages are also part of
> the distribution. What a packaging mess!
>
> Well, David. Please excuse my butting in. It seems that the Fedora
> packagers have thrown a spanner into the works. Now, it's nearly
> impossible to find and clean up left over packages using just the
> distro suffix. Unless rpm or any of the package managers shows a
> conflict leave the older package(s) alone.
>
>   
Thanks for that Kam but I decided last night to leave my system as is and do
a clean install when FC9 appears.

   david