That ole Livna Problem/That ole VLC Problem

Karl Larsen k5di at zianet.com
Wed Jan 16 16:40:07 UTC 2008


Les Mikesell wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>
>>>>>>> $ wget -c http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm
>>>>>>> $ rpm -ivh livna-release-8.rpm
>>>>>> last time i looked, you could do all that in one step:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> # rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm
>>>>> Yeah, see my other reply from two minutes before yours. ;)  There
>>>>> has been a thread on fedora-devel some time ago where Panu mentioned
>>>>> that this feature would/might be dropped from RPM. Further, it's a
>>>>> bad habit of mine to suggest wget/curl plus rpm because with that
>>>>> combination, a copy of the downloaded package is saved in local dir
>>>>> and can be reused in error conditions, whereas rpm works with a tmp
>>>>> file. (not so important for tiny files, though)
>>>>
>>>> true enough.  i actually would never use the above shortcut for
>>>> anything but the most minor of downloads and installs.
>>>
>>> Or you can just click on it in a browser and let the browser run rpm 
>>> for you.  Unless you just like to type...
>>>
>>    And I have been thinking that up to last week, I could get vlc any 
>> time I wanted. I am sure things are different now. And I am sure it 
>> will get easy again soon.
>
> Seeing as how no one else has a problem, it isn't likely to get easy 
> until you fix whatever you've done wrong.  You've posted 2 real errors 
> so far: an rpm version-numbering conflict between parts from freshrpms 
> and livna, and a missing gpg key for livna, either of which could be 
> fixed in minutes.  The rest is mostly rambling about nothing in 
> particular.  Are you getting some real error when you download or 
> install that livna-release-8.rpm?  If so, what is it? After 
> installing, yum should continue past the last error you posted.
>
    Les I just used it and it worked fine. Thank you!





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