On Monday 04 December 2006 00:20, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 04 December 2006 02:12, Gene Heskett wrote: > >On Sunday 03 December 2006 21:28, Les Mikesell wrote: > >>On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 19:53, Gene Heskett wrote: > >>> What can I replace totem with that will work? > >>> > >>> I'm plumb out of patience with its I can't play this messages that do > >>> not tell you what it can't play. > >> > >>Try enabling the livna repository and installing vlc. It will play > >>about anything you throw at it. Why use totem since mplayer will do what you want > >> > >>-- > >> Les Mikesell > >> lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx > > > >My current theory is that while rpm thinks there is a java installed, > > all the /usr/lib/java* subdirs are empty. > > > >So I truck meself off the the Sun site and dl > > jdk-1_5_0_10-linux.rpm.bin, the very latest, shinyest version there. > > But would you believe it was packed with rpm-4.0.4? And it gives the > > current 4.4.2, a segfault tummy ache. Repeatedly. > > And now my rpm database appears to be hosed, even an rpm --rebuilddb seems > to be hung in sleep state, no cpu usage and if I want to kill it, I'll > have to do a SIGKILL on it from htop. But, in the FWIW category, before > I started that, it reported there was no java installed, without any > errors. > > Now what the heck do I do? > > >So now I'm back to get the other package to see what falls out of the > >regular linux.bin file. > > > > > >Ok, that unpacked, now where can I find a .spec file so that I can pack > > it with the newer rpm & then install it? Or is that not the correct > > procedure now? > > > >-- > >Cheers, Gene > >"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > >-Ed Howdershelt (Author) > >Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above > >message by Gene Heskett are: > >Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. > > -- > Cheers, Gene > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above > message by Gene Heskett are: > Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list