That ole Livna Problem/That ole VLC Problem

Chris Jones jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk
Thu Jan 17 16:36:26 UTC 2008


Lamar Owen wrote:
> On Thursday 17 January 2008, Tim wrote:
>> e.g. Someone sets up Livna, to install mplayer.  Then they want to
>> install something that can only be found from another repo, so they set
>> that up.  Later on, they want to install vlc and just do yum install
>> vlc, and all hell breaks loose.
> 
> Let's use a specific example.
> 
> They initially set up livna to watch DVD's.  Then they get a nice ivtv-based 
> MPEG enocder card, and decide to set up MythTV.  ATrpms is 'THE' place to get 
> MythTV for Fedora.  So they set up ATrpms.
> 
> Now they install vlc.

In which case they should look into yum priorities. The following page 
is for Centos, but explains the principle.

http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/Priorities

Last time I was running Fedora I used this to do exactly what you 
described, and it worked pretty well.

cheers Chris




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