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[Karl Larsen]

Ed Greshko wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
>> and by the way, feel free to help out Karl with his conflicts. I'm 
>> heading to bed
>>
> OK....
>
> As noted in an earlier message, I managed to recreate what I believe 
> is Karl's original problem.  In doing so I've rediscovered what others 
> are probably fully aware of, but I am not for the simple reason that I 
> don't use either the freshrpms or livna repos...
>
> Simply put, (feel free to respond with "I told you so") both repos 
> contain vlc, x264 and other packages.  These repos are mutually 
> exclusive.  Unless you are interested in inflicting pain on yourself 
> do not, at any time, enable both.  And never, ever....unless you know 
> what you are doing use more than one of these on your installed 
> system.  Pick one...and stay with it.
>
> So, Karl, unless you really know what you've done (as in kept detailed 
> notes) you may best be served by starting over again and picking ONE 
> of these repos and using it and only it.  As you've stated, you're not 
> smart enough to deal with the complexities that are introduced by 
> using multiple 3rd party repos.
>
>
    Ed I have got past that. In fact I plan to try Tim's idea just to 
get a feel from part by part work. I thought the interplay between the 
two repos was the problem. It is not the problem.

Karl


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