On 02/14/2018 01:43 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: > On 14/2/18 10:05 am, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> On Wed, 2018-02-14 at 08:08 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: >>> So from my perspective the vlc package you had problems with works fine >>> on my system. >>> >>> The packages I have installed are: >>> >>> >>> bash-4.4$ rpm -qa vlc* >>> vlc-core-3.0.0-25.20180109git0c462fc.fc27.x86_64 >>> vlc-3.0.0-25.20180109git0c462fc.fc27.x86_64 >> When using Negativo17 I never had a package called vlc, just vlc-core >> and vlc-extras. The /usr/bin/vlc binary came from vlc-core. On >> switching to RPMfusion I now have a package called vlc. So I wonder if >> your installation is in fact from Negativo17. > > I am definitely using the negativo17 packages. As a test I uninstalled > the vlc and vlc-core packages via yumex, and issued the vlc command in a > shell which told me it couldn't be found. I then went back into Yumex > and did a search for vlc, in the list of packages returned it said that > the vlc, vlc-core and vlc-extras package were from fedora-multimedia > which is negativo17, it did not provide me with any reference to vlc in > rpmfusion. I then installed vlc, vlc-core and vlc-extras (I didn't have > this one previously), ran vlc from the shell, and it work as I > documented previously. I have also checked on the negativo17 physical > repository and negativo17 does actually provide packages vlc, vlc-core > and vlc-extras. Looking at the file list from vlc and vlc-core, the vlc > package may not need to be installed. The vcl package provides files in > /usr/bin of qvlc and svlc, where the vlc-core package provides files in > /usr/bin of cvlc, nvlc, rvlc, vlc and vlc-wrapper. I haven't yet tried > the vlc functionality after uninstalling all 3 packages and just > installing vlc-core and vlc-extras. > > I've also checked the physical rpmfusion repository and their free > repository also has packages vlc, vlc-core and vlc-extras, but they are > named differently to the negativo17 ones so there is no confusion as to > which is which. What I don't know yet is why a vlc search in Yumex > doesn't show me the rpmfusion ones? I don't use yumex, but dnfdragora displays them--provided the rpmfusion-free and rpmfusion-free-update repos are enabled. > Particularly given that dnf info vlc > tells me the installed vlc package is from fedora-multimedia and there > is a vlc package available from rpmfusion-free-updates and there is a > source package available from fedora-multimedia-source, which is what > dnf told before I did the uninstall and re-install. My packages (as of this morning, using rpmfusion-*): [root@golem4 ~]# dnf list vlc* Last metadata expiration check: 0:19:21 ago on Thu 15 Feb 2018 11:22:18 AM PST. Installed Packages vlc.x86_64 3.0.0-1.fc27 @rpmfusion-free-updates vlc-core.x86_64 3.0.0-1.fc27 @rpmfusion-free-updates vlc-extras.x86_64 3.0.0-1.fc27 @rpmfusion-free-updates Available Packages vlc.i686 3.0.0-1.fc27 rpmfusion-free-updates vlc-core.i686 3.0.0-1.fc27 rpmfusion-free-updates vlc-devel.i686 3.0.0-1.fc27 rpmfusion-free-updates vlc-devel.x86_64 3.0.0-1.fc27 rpmfusion-free-updates YMMV ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - Let us think the unthinkable. Let us do the undoable. Let us - - prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may - - not eff it up after all. - - -- Douglas Adams - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
