On Monday 14 January 2008 02:21, Craig White wrote: > On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 02:16 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: > > On Monday 14 January 2008 01:25, Craig White wrote: > > > On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 17:18 -0700, Karl Larsen wrote: > > > > >> Sorry Craig there are MANY f7 rpms in f8. It is normal and > > > > >> thought you would know. > > > > > > > > > > ---- > > > > > If you are referring to the .fc7 designation, yes, I am quite aware > > > > > of that. > > > > > > > > > > I forgot that you are inclined to bite the hand feeding you. > > > > > > > > > > Good luck > > > > > > > > > > Craig > > > > > > > > I wanted you to know that f7 rpm's are normal on f8. I am seeing > > > > something odd. > > > > > > > > > > > > [root@localhost ~]# yum install vlc > > > > Setting up Install Process > > > > Parsing package install arguments > > > > Resolving Dependencies > > > > > > > > > > > > The yum is not looking for a repo to get this mess. How can this be? > > > > I have removed all livna repos but it does not even use them. > > > > > > ---- > > > Sure but you don't bother to do what you were asked to do. > > > > > > My speculation, you have vlc and packages from some other repository, > > > not livna. freshrpms? If you had listed the files, we probably could > > > figure it out. > > > > > > enable freshrpms repository again and try to update > > > > > > Craig > > > > Hi Craig. I just suggested enabling the freshrpms repo again ( that's on > > Karls pulseaudio thread) and trying an install of VLC, especially as x264 > > on my F8 with freshrpms enabled is showing as being maintained by > > Matthias Saou (freshrpms), and VLC is working fine. > > > > The problem is that 3rd party repo's don't work well together. The > > intention of the repo maintainers is that there should be consistency of > > the package versions available, but this doesn't seem to work out in > > reality, resulting in conflicts. > > > > Karls obviously experiencing this. I thought he'd got his VLC from Livna, > > but maybe not due to the problems he's having. > > ---- > feel free to step in. > > he has yet to do what I asked him to do so it's clear that I'm not going > to be of much use. > > Craig Well I don't particularly want to step in, but do think that Karl needs try installing VLC from the freshrpms repo, rather than the Livna one. With VLC installed from Freshrpms, this is what the x264 package shows. djmons@xxxxxxxxxxxx's password: Last login: Sun Jan 6 16:21:01 2008 from 192.168.0.230 [djmons@localhost ~]$ rpm -qf /usr/lib/libx264.so.55 x264-0.0.0-0.3.20070529.fc7 [djmons@localhost ~]$ And from my History-file when I instralled VLC on F8. djmons@localhost ~]$ su Password: [root@localhost djmons]# apt-get install vlc Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: SDL_image (1.2.6-3.fc8) a52dec (0.7.4-8.fc7) faad2 (2.5-2.fc7) libcddb (1.3.0-2.fc8) libdvbpsi (0.1.5-2.fc7) libdvdnav (0.1.10-3.fc7) libdvdread (0.9.7-3.fc8) libebml (0.7.7-3.fc8) libid3tag (0.15.1b-4.fc8) libmatroska (0.8.1-2.fc8) libopendaap (0.4.0-2.fc7) libtar (1.2.11-9.fc8) libupnp (1.6.0-3.fc8) mpeg2dec (0.4.1-2.fc7) vcdimager (0.7.23-5.fc7) wxGTK (2.8.4-6.fc8) xosd (2.2.14-10.fc8) The following NEW packages will be installed: SDL_image (1.2.6-3.fc8) a52dec (0.7.4-8.fc7) faad2 (2.5-2.fc7) libcddb (1.3.0-2.fc8) libdvbpsi (0.1.5-2.fc7) libdvdnav (0.1.10-3.fc7) libdvdread (0.9.7-3.fc8) libebml (0.7.7-3.fc8) libid3tag (0.15.1b-4.fc8) libmatroska (0.8.1-2.fc8) libopendaap (0.4.0-2.fc7) libtar (1.2.11-9.fc8) libupnp (1.6.0-3.fc8) mpeg2dec (0.4.1-2.fc7) vcdimager (0.7.23-5.fc7) vlc (0.8.6c-1.fc8) wxGTK (2.8.4-6.fc8) xosd (2.2.14-10.fc8) 0 upgraded, 18 newly installed, 0 removed and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 14.4MB of archives. After unpacking 37.6MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Get:1 http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/8/i386/freshrpms a52dec 0.7.4-8.fc7 [52.4kB] Get:2 http://download.fedora.redhat.com fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/ SDL_image 1.2.6-3.fc8 [44.6kB] Get:3 http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/8/i386/freshrpms faad2 2.5-2.fc7 [199kB] Get:4 http://download.fedora.redhat.com fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/ libcddb 1.3.0-2.fc8 [72.8kB] Get:5 http://download.fedora.redhat.com fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/ libdvdread 0.9.7-3.fc8 [67.5kB] Get:6 http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/8/i386/freshrpms libdvbpsi 0.1.5-2.fc7 [39.8kB] Get:7 http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/8/i386/freshrpms libdvdnav 0.1.10-3.fc7 [91.8kB] Get:8 http://download.fedora.redhat.com fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/ libebml 0.7.7-3.fc8 [74.5kB] Get:9 http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/8/i386/freshrpms libopendaap 0.4.0-2.fc7 [52.0kB] Get:10 http://download.fedora.redhat.com fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/ libid3tag 0.15.1b-4.fc8 [46.3kB] Get:11 http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/8/i386/freshrpms mpeg2dec 0.4.1-2.fc7 [105kB] Get:12 http://download.fedora.redhat.com fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/ libmatroska 0.8.1-2.fc8 [208kB] Get:13 http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/8/i386/freshrpms vcdimager 0.7.23-5.fc7 [657kB] Get:14 http://download.fedora.redhat.com fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/ libtar 1.2.11-9.fc8 [30.7kB] Get:15 http://download.fedora.redhat.com fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/ libupnp 1.6.0-3.fc8 [103kB] Get:16 http://download.fedora.redhat.com fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/ wxGTK 2.8.4-6.fc8 [4568kB] Get:17 http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/8/i386/freshrpms vlc 0.8.6c-1.fc8 [7958kB] Err http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/8/i386/freshrpms vlc 0.8.6c-1.fc8 Error reading from server Remote end closed connection Get:18 http://download.fedora.redhat.com fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/ xosd 2.2.14-10.fc8 [48.7kB] Fetched 6462kB in 31m34s (3411B/s) Failed to fetch http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/8/i386/RPMS.freshrpms/vlc-0.8.6c-1.fc8.i386.rpm Error reading from server Remote end closed connection E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing? Get:1 http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/8/i386/freshrpms vlc 0.8.6c-1.fc8 [7958kB] Fetched 696kB in 3m13s (3587B/s) Checking GPG signatures... ############################## [100%] Committing changes... Preparing ############################## [100%] Updating / installing libebml-0.7.7-3.fc8.i386 ############################## [100%] libmatroska-0.8.1-2.fc8.i386 ############################## [100%] xosd-2.2.14-10.fc8.i386 ############################## [100%] wxGTK-2.8.4-6.fc8.i386 ############################## [100%] libupnp-1.6.0-3.fc8.i386 ############################## [100%] libtar-1.2.11-9.fc8.i386 ############################## [100%] libid3tag-0.15.1b-4.fc8.i386 ############################## [100%] libdvdread-0.9.7-3.fc8.i386 ############################## [100%] libcddb-1.3.0-2.fc8.i386 ############################## [100%] SDL_image-1.2.6-3.fc8.i386 ############################## [100%] vcdimager-0.7.23-5.fc7.i386 ############################## [100%] mpeg2dec-0.4.1-2.fc7.i386 ############################## [100%] libopendaap-0.4.0-2.fc7.i386 ############################## [100%] libdvdnav-0.1.10-3.fc7.i386 ############################## [100%] libdvbpsi-0.1.5-2.fc7.i386 ############################## [100%] faad2-2.5-2.fc7.i386 ############################## [100%] a52dec-0.7.4-8.fc7.i386 ############################## [100%] vlc-0.8.6c-1.fc8.i386 ############################## [100%] Done. [root@localhost djmons]# Another 2¢ worth of perhaps useless info. Nigel. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
