VLC and fedora 8: the last word

[Ed Greshko]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Ed Greshko wrote:
> 
>> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>>   i realize this has been beaten to death, but for my own peace of
>>> mind, i took one of my 13 spare laptops, installed the 64-bit unity
>>> respin of F8 on it, did not do any further updating, and just followed
>>> the instructions here:
>>>
>>> http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-fedora.html
>>>
>>> result?  apparently successful installation of VLC:
>>>
>>>   41 pkgs installed
>>>   0 updated
>>>   0 removed
>>>
>>> should i have expected anything untoward?
>> No...  And it probably would have worked out equally well had the
>> instructions said "use freshrpms".  I don't see the need to test it.
> 
> well, given the recent hubbub, i just thought it was worth verifying
> from a clean install.  i'm just like that.  :-)
> 
>> 13 spare laptops, huh?  I can give you a shipping address if they
>> are collecting too much dust.  :-)
> 
> heh.  nice try.  it comes with being an independent trainer -- have
> portable classroom, will travel.

Oh, they're not *really* spare then...  :-(


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