Updates

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 21:17 -0500, max wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
> > max wrote:
> >> Karl Larsen wrote:
> >>> max wrote:
> >>>> Karl Larsen wrote:
> >>>>> Ed Greshko wrote:
> >>>>>> Karl Larsen wrote:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> [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.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Hasn't this thread gotten too long.  GO GIANTS!!!!
> >>>>
> >>>> See you in Green Bay,
> >>>>
> >>>> Max
> >>>    It was hard to do things on the computer and watch My Cowgirls 
> >>> get beat again. Hard to understand but it appears the Q'back has 
> >>> forgot how to pass.
> >>>
> >>> Karl
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >> The way things are going on this thread , i don't know that I'd split 
> >> my attention between the computer and the television.
> >>
> >> 4th and game ......interception!!!!GO GIANTS!!!
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> -Max
> >>
> >    I went the manual way. I used rpm -i rpmname and it printed a long 
> > list of dependents and I one by satisfied the  dependents. But when I  
> > tried to load the vlc file it gave me this:
> >
> > [root at localhost Desktop]# rpm -i --force vlc-0.8.6d-1.fc8.i386.rpm
> > error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/bin/vlc;478c1014: 
> > cpio: read
> >
> > This makes me think the rpm file is bad. What do you think?
> >
> > Karl
> >
> >
> Have you tried installing from source?
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sure - makes sense...contaminate with cross-repo packages using yum,
Nigel whacking it with apt-get and now, go to the source Luke...

To paraphrase Yakov Smirnoff...Fedora, what a list

Craig