Updates SOLVED! ... Or is it! ... vlc won't install

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Thu Jan 17 11:52:45 UTC 2008


On 17/01/2008, Jim Cornette <fc-cornette at insight.rr.com> wrote:
> Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > On 15/01/2008, Jim Cornette <fc-cornette at insight.rr.com> wrote:
> >> Karl Larsen wrote:
> >>>    Well at this point I know a great deal more than YOU do about yum. I
> >>> am sorry you had no working ideas but thanks for a try at least.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Karl
> >>>
> >>>
> >> What is the output from package-cleanup --problems and from
> >> package-cleanup --dupes ?
> >
> > That's completely irrelevant to the problem of yum failing to download
> > the "vlc" package from freshrpms.
>
> Is it irrelevant? He mentioned using the --force option for rpm. He
> could have uncompleted rpm transactions, multiple version installations
> and other problems.

His yum output showed that yum failed to _download_ the vlc rpm. Yum
gave up when verifying the package checksum. That is a step that has
nothing to do with rpm transactions or multiple installed versions. It
belongs into your "other problems" category, e.g. not enough space in
/var, damaged files in yum's cache, network problems, ...

:)




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