On Tue, 2016-10-11 at 16:29 +0800, Ian Kent wrote: > On Tue, 2016-10-11 at 09:56 +0200, Joachim Backes wrote: > > Hi testers, > > > > I'm trying to install the F24 version of VirtualBox in F25 because no > > F25 version is available > > > > Anybody tried this and was successful? > > > > I'm experiencing this error: > > > > sudo dnf install VirtualBox-5.1-5.1.6_110634_fedora24-1.x86_64.rpm > > Last metadata expiration check: 3:04:28 ago on Tue Oct 11 06:49:21 2016. > > Error: *nothing provides libvpx.so.3()(64bit)* needed by > > VirtualBox-5.1-5.1.6_110634_fedora24-1.x86_64 > > That's happening because there is no libvpx.so.3 in F25, obviously. > > It looks like F25 has gone from libvpx-1.5.0 (libvpx.so.3) to libvpx-1.6.0 > (libvpx.so.4). > > Creating a symlink from /usr/lib64/libvpx.so.3 to /usr/lib64/libvpx.so.4.0.0 > might work (if the library api has not changed, or at least the calls needed > have not changed, but there might be symbol naming problems as well). > > But really what you need is a VirtualBox package built against the new > version, > libvpx-1.6.0. > > Alternately you could build the source package of libvpx-1.5.0 on F25, remove > libvpx-1.6.0, and then install the libvpx-1.5.0 and make sure to exclude that > package when updating. > > But there are probably other package dependencies requiring libvpx-1.6.0 so it > will quickly get tedious building (and rebuilding) dependencies and excluding > those from updates too. I guess the other thing you could do is grab the libvpx-1.5.0 source rpm and give it a different name like libvpx-compat, build and install it then the requirement of VirtualBox should be met without the dependency side effects above. > > Ian > _______________________________________________ > test mailing list -- test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to test-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ test mailing list -- test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to test-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
