On 01/11/2016 01:21 PM, Ian Malone wrote:
On 11 January 2016 at 11:42, Philip Brown <philip.brown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 01/11/2016 11:48 AM, Ian Malone wrote:
On 11 January 2016 at 01:35, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Allegedly, on or about 10 January 2016, Philip Brown sent:
however, in a couple of very simple steps, this gives me a very usable
multimedia system on my default fedora workstation without having to
install any additional repos. which for me is awesome.
and I can confirm all I had to do was download and extract .so files
from the following 2 rpms:
http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/releases/22/Everything/x86_64/os/repoview/gstreamer1-libav.html
http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/releases/22/Everything/x86_64/os/repoview/gstreamer-plugins-ugly.html
really that simple, no dealing with runtime linker search paths,
additional rpm dependencies or anything like that.
ok I admit, in the long run, maybe it is planless, however this is not
intended as a complete solution intended to work forever, it will get
you up and running now and will probably keep working in the future
but as listed above it is not a repo sysyem with dnf/yum updates and
there will come a day when dependencies mismatch but... c'est la vie.
That's all very well, if you never intend to do a yum update again, in
the future. But if you do, then you've got to deal with all the
breakage that ensues. Which is going to be more work than simply
installing the repo, and installing the files you need, letting the
system do the work for you.
Yes, this is why I don't see any benefit to this approach at all. You
have to manually download the right rpms, extract libraries, move them
into place and then they'll stop working if you ever update the
installed programs. On top of which codecs are a great target for
vulnerabilities, so worth keeping them up to date. To me this seems
much more work than installing the rpmfusion repo, which involves
clicking two links at <http://rpmfusion.org/>, and you get a less
reliable setup out of it. The rpmfusion guys do a great job and it
integrates with the fedora repos, many of the people there are also
fedora project packagers. Particularly over things like gstreamer
where the plugins provided will work with fedora gstreamer directly.
never be able to run yum again?????
I have been running this workaround for close to a year and dnf/yum is still
fully operational.
I am merely placing a few library files in my home folder. pray tell, how is
this going to blow up my system???
Not what I said.
that is reassuring =)
i understand you have nothing against the RPMFusion system and therefore
there would be absolutely no benefit for you. however the poster whom I
replied to, like me, had concerns and this is simply my workaround.
What is your concern about RPMFusion? You seem to imply you have
something against it.
bad past experience, could have been livna, it was a long time ago and I
never used it since. I imagine it should be a lot better now, however
seeing as I only need these few files I prefer just to download them
rather than having an extra repo system. The updates for these rpms are
few and far between (last updates were Sept 2014 and May 2015) so it
does not really add much to my workload.
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