Cups problem

david walcroft d_j_w46 at bigpond.net.au
Mon Dec 17 22:35:31 UTC 2007


Craig White wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 00:18 -0800, 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.
>>     
> ----
> You have given completely worthless and a lack of informed advice.
>
> grep'ing rpm packages for earlier designations does not, repeat does not
> necessarily indicate that the package isn't intended to be installed on
> the current $releasever.
>
> There is however a method now for finding obsolete packages...
>
> yum -y install yum-utils
>
> package-cleanup --orphans
>
> This information is indeed documented on the Fedora Project Wiki (kudos
> to them for making this valuable info available)...
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq
>
> People who want to help others should be familiar with this page
>
> Craig
>
>   
Yum-utils was already installed, package-cleanup --orphans cleaned out
some 80 files
Changed SElinux to permissive and believe or not but I can print anything
and my sound is back after losing it during the last 
upgrade,SElinux-enforcing
seems to be very restrictive.
You said something earlier about reinstalling four files that where 
dependencies.


   Thanks for all your help Craig    david




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