Updates

Karl Larsen k5di at zianet.com
Mon Jan 14 13:19:04 UTC 2008


Nigel Henry wrote:
> On Monday 14 January 2008 02:21, Craig White wrote:
>   
>> On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 02:16 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote:
>>     
>>> On Monday 14 January 2008 01:25, Craig White wrote:
>>>       
>>>> On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 17:18 -0700, Karl Larsen wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>>>>     Sorry Craig there are MANY f7 rpms in f8. It is normal and
>>>>>>> thought you would know.
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>> ----
>>>>>> If you are referring to the .fc7 designation, yes, I am quite aware
>>>>>> of that.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I forgot that you are inclined to bite the hand feeding you.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Good luck
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Craig
>>>>>>             
>>>>>     I wanted you to know that f7 rpm's are normal on f8. I am seeing
>>>>> something odd.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> [root at localhost ~]# yum install vlc
>>>>> Setting up Install Process
>>>>> Parsing package install arguments
>>>>> Resolving Dependencies
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The yum is not looking for a repo to get this mess. How can this be?
>>>>> I have removed all livna repos but it does not even use them.
>>>>>           
>>>> ----
>>>> Sure but you don't bother to do what you were asked to do.
>>>>
>>>> My speculation, you have vlc and packages from some other repository,
>>>> not livna. freshrpms? If you had listed the files, we probably could
>>>> figure it out.
>>>>
>>>> enable freshrpms repository again and try to update
>>>>
>>>> Craig
>>>>         
>>> Hi Craig. I just suggested enabling the freshrpms repo again ( that's on
>>> Karls pulseaudio thread) and trying an install of VLC, especially as x264
>>> on my F8 with freshrpms enabled is showing as being maintained by
>>> Matthias Saou (freshrpms), and VLC is working fine.
>>>
>>> The problem is that 3rd party repo's don't work well together. The
>>> intention of the repo maintainers is that there should be consistency of
>>> the package versions available, but this doesn't seem to work out in
>>> reality, resulting in conflicts.
>>>
>>> Karls obviously experiencing this. I thought he'd got his VLC from Livna,
>>> but maybe not due to the problems he's having.
>>>       
>> ----
>> feel free to step in.
>>
>> he has yet to do what I asked him to do so it's clear that I'm not going
>> to be of much use.
>>
>> Craig
>>     
>
> Well I don't particularly want to step in, but do think that Karl needs try 
> installing VLC from the freshrpms repo, rather than the Livna one.
>
> With VLC installed from Freshrpms, this is what the x264 package shows.
>
> djmons at 192.168.0.12's password:
> Last login: Sun Jan  6 16:21:01 2008 from 192.168.0.230
> [djmons at localhost ~]$ rpm -qf /usr/lib/libx264.so.55
> x264-0.0.0-0.3.20070529.fc7
> [djmons at localhost ~]$
>
> And from my History-file when I instralled VLC on F8.
>
> djmons at localhost ~]$ su
> Password:
> [root at localhost djmons]# apt-get install vlc
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following extra packages will be installed:
>    SDL_image (1.2.6-3.fc8)
>    a52dec (0.7.4-8.fc7)
>    faad2 (2.5-2.fc7)
>    libcddb (1.3.0-2.fc8)
>    libdvbpsi (0.1.5-2.fc7)
>    libdvdnav (0.1.10-3.fc7)
>    libdvdread (0.9.7-3.fc8)
>    libebml (0.7.7-3.fc8)
>    libid3tag (0.15.1b-4.fc8)
>    libmatroska (0.8.1-2.fc8)
>    libopendaap (0.4.0-2.fc7)
>    libtar (1.2.11-9.fc8)
>    libupnp (1.6.0-3.fc8)
>    mpeg2dec (0.4.1-2.fc7)
>    vcdimager (0.7.23-5.fc7)
>    wxGTK (2.8.4-6.fc8)
>    xosd (2.2.14-10.fc8)
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>    SDL_image (1.2.6-3.fc8)
>    a52dec (0.7.4-8.fc7)
>    faad2 (2.5-2.fc7)
>    libcddb (1.3.0-2.fc8)
>    libdvbpsi (0.1.5-2.fc7)
>    libdvdnav (0.1.10-3.fc7)
>    libdvdread (0.9.7-3.fc8)
>    libebml (0.7.7-3.fc8)
>    libid3tag (0.15.1b-4.fc8)
>    libmatroska (0.8.1-2.fc8)
>    libopendaap (0.4.0-2.fc7)
>    libtar (1.2.11-9.fc8)
>    libupnp (1.6.0-3.fc8)
>    mpeg2dec (0.4.1-2.fc7)
>    vcdimager (0.7.23-5.fc7)
>    vlc (0.8.6c-1.fc8)
>    wxGTK (2.8.4-6.fc8)
>    xosd (2.2.14-10.fc8)
> 0 upgraded, 18 newly installed, 0 removed and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 14.4MB of archives.
> After unpacking 37.6MB of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
> Get:1 http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/8/i386/freshrpms a52dec 
> 0.7.4-8.fc7 [52.4kB]
> Get:2 http://download.fedora.redhat.com 
> fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/ SDL_image 1.2.6-3.fc8 [44.6kB]
> Get:3 http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/8/i386/freshrpms faad2 2.5-2.fc7 
> [199kB]
> Get:4 http://download.fedora.redhat.com 
> fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/ libcddb 1.3.0-2.fc8 [72.8kB]
> Get:5 http://download.fedora.redhat.com 
> fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/ libdvdread 0.9.7-3.fc8 [67.5kB]
> Get:6 http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/8/i386/freshrpms libdvbpsi 
> 0.1.5-2.fc7 [39.8kB]
> Get:7 http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/8/i386/freshrpms libdvdnav 
> 0.1.10-3.fc7 [91.8kB]
> Get:8 http://download.fedora.redhat.com 
> fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/ libebml 0.7.7-3.fc8 [74.5kB]
> Get:9 http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/8/i386/freshrpms libopendaap 
> 0.4.0-2.fc7 [52.0kB]
> Get:10 http://download.fedora.redhat.com 
> fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/ libid3tag 0.15.1b-4.fc8 [46.3kB]
> Get:11 http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/8/i386/freshrpms mpeg2dec 
> 0.4.1-2.fc7 [105kB]
> Get:12 http://download.fedora.redhat.com 
> fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/ libmatroska 0.8.1-2.fc8 [208kB]
> Get:13 http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/8/i386/freshrpms vcdimager 
> 0.7.23-5.fc7 [657kB]
> Get:14 http://download.fedora.redhat.com 
> fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/ libtar 1.2.11-9.fc8 [30.7kB]
> Get:15 http://download.fedora.redhat.com 
> fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/ libupnp 1.6.0-3.fc8 [103kB]
> Get:16 http://download.fedora.redhat.com 
> fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/ wxGTK 2.8.4-6.fc8 [4568kB]
> Get:17 http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/8/i386/freshrpms vlc 0.8.6c-1.fc8 
> [7958kB]
> Err http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/8/i386/freshrpms vlc 0.8.6c-1.fc8
>   Error reading from server Remote end closed connection
> Get:18 http://download.fedora.redhat.com 
> fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/ xosd 2.2.14-10.fc8 [48.7kB]
> Fetched 6462kB in 31m34s (3411B/s)
> Failed to fetch 
> http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/8/i386/RPMS.freshrpms/vlc-0.8.6c-1.fc8.i386.rpm  
> Error reading from server Remote end closed connection
> E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with 
> --fix-missing?
> Get:1 http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/8/i386/freshrpms vlc 0.8.6c-1.fc8 
> [7958kB]
> Fetched 696kB in 3m13s (3587B/s)
> Checking GPG signatures...               ############################## [100%]
> Committing changes...
> Preparing                                ############################## [100%]
> Updating / installing
> libebml-0.7.7-3.fc8.i386                 ############################## [100%]
> libmatroska-0.8.1-2.fc8.i386             ############################## [100%]
> xosd-2.2.14-10.fc8.i386                  ############################## [100%]
> wxGTK-2.8.4-6.fc8.i386                   ############################## [100%]
> libupnp-1.6.0-3.fc8.i386                 ############################## [100%]
> libtar-1.2.11-9.fc8.i386                 ############################## [100%]
> libid3tag-0.15.1b-4.fc8.i386             ############################## [100%]
> libdvdread-0.9.7-3.fc8.i386              ############################## [100%]
> libcddb-1.3.0-2.fc8.i386                 ############################## [100%]
> SDL_image-1.2.6-3.fc8.i386               ############################## [100%]
> vcdimager-0.7.23-5.fc7.i386              ############################## [100%]
> mpeg2dec-0.4.1-2.fc7.i386                ############################## [100%]
> libopendaap-0.4.0-2.fc7.i386             ############################## [100%]
> libdvdnav-0.1.10-3.fc7.i386              ############################## [100%]
> libdvbpsi-0.1.5-2.fc7.i386               ############################## [100%]
> faad2-2.5-2.fc7.i386                     ############################## [100%]
> a52dec-0.7.4-8.fc7.i386                  ############################## [100%]
> vlc-0.8.6c-1.fc8.i386                    ############################## [100%]
> Done.
> [root at localhost djmons]#
>
> Another 2¢ worth of perhaps useless info.
>
> Nigel.
>
>   
    Savable data Nigel. I was about to do the same thing. I will compare 
your list that worked with mine and see if there is an answer. Thanks!


Karl


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