nspluginwrapper issues

[Reid Rivenburgh]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Michal Jaegermann <michal at harddata.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 11:52:57AM -0600, Reid Rivenburgh wrote:
>  >
>  > I always get a little nervous when yum wants to install or
>  > (especially) remove hundreds of packages....  But I guess there's no
>  > helping it in this case.
>
>  Ahem.  I tried on my current x86_64 installation where at this
>  moment no i?86 packages are present.  Asking yum for nspluginwrapper.i386
>  brought extra 20M of stuff split as follows:

[reasonable number of packages deleted]

>  That does not look like excessive at all.  Not that most of these are
>  really small libraries.  Not too much in a megabyte range.  It probably
>  would be better to ask explicitely for glibc.i686 in a yum request.
>  To wit: 'yum install nspluginwrapper.i386 glibc.i686'

Rats, caught in an exaggeration!  I don't remember how many packages I
was being asked to install (at a minimum, the install didn't actually
work), but it may not have been hundreds.  If I ask for one package to
be installed and get more than a screenful of dependencies, it's
enough to scare me.  If anyone actually wants to see the full output
of my attempt to install nspluginwrapper, let me know....

In any case, there must be something different between our systems.
I'm pretty sure it wanted to install more than you listed, and
something on my system is causing it to fail.  Hm.  Thanks for the
info.  I will try adding glibc to the install command.

>  > I'm not sure if I knew about libflashsupport.
>
>  Yes, if you want to use flash-plugin you definitely need that one too.
>  This will have its own dependencies; like pulseaudio-libs.

I will give that a try.  Thanks, guys.

Reid