Updates SOLVED!

[Karl Larsen]

Karl Larsen wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
>> On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 23:56 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
>>  
>>> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>>    
>>>>    Ed I have got past that.       
>>> Not sure what you've gotten past.    
>>>> In fact I plan to try Tim's idea just to get a feel from part by 
>>>> part work. I thought the interplay between the two repos was the 
>>>> problem. It is not the problem.
>>>>
>>>>       
>>> Ahhh....OK...so you don't think having both livna and freshrpms 
>>> enabled is a problem.  I see...
>>>
>>> Well then have fun.  But, whatever you do, don't say "The Fedora 
>>> XXX..." is at fault.
>>>
>>> Tim, meet Karl.  Karl, meet Tim.
>>>     
>> ----
>> I solved that last night by going to bed.
>>
>> I am particularly disappointed that you couldn't help Karl solve his
>> issue.
>>
>> Craig
>>
>>   
>    OK the solution to my problem.
>
> Step 1. I wanted to see what files from vlc are still on my computer. 
> The method I wound up with was # rpm -e filename. I knew what files to 
> delete from the list Nigel sent and it is:
>
> 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)
> From this list only libopendaap, mpeg2dec and wxGTK were NOT on my 
> computer.
>
>    Now since I have just the freshrpms repo on my yum in 
> /etc/yum.repo.d when I did
> # yum install vlc it did it perfect almost. The freshrpms repo is 
> broken today. Here is what the download looks like at one part:
>
> (13/20): vlc-0.8.6d-1.fc8 100% |=========================| 1.3 MB    
> 00:49    
> http://ayo.ie.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/8/i386/freshrpms/RPMS/vlc-0.8.6d-1.fc8.i386.rpm: 
> [Errno -1] Package does not match intended download
>
>    It says it doesn't have the right vlc number or whatever. I thought 
> maybe just a hickup and did this:
>
> [root at localhost ~]# yum --enable=freshrpms install 
> vlc-0.8.6d-1.fc8.i386.rpm
> fedora                    100% |=========================| 2.1 kB    
> 00:00    updates                   100% |=========================| 
> 2.3 kB    00:00    freshrpms                 100% 
> |=========================| 2.1 kB    00:00    Setting up Install Process
> Parsing package install arguments
> No package vlc-0.8.6d-1.fc8.i386.rpm available.
> Nothing to do
>
>    So in summary I fixed my problem by deleting all vlc files on my 
> computer. I tried to load vlc from freshrpms and it is broken. Someone 
> needs to fix it. I will try to fix it using the livna repo but I am 
> going to be careful :-)
>
> Karl
>
>
    I tried using the livna repo without freshrpms being present and 
still get a problem from livna! And it is still the problem of livna 
wanting to update files not on my computer. Wierd!

Karl


-- 

	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
	Linux User
	#450462   http://counter.li.org.
   PGP 4208 4D6E 595F 22B9 FF1C  ECB6 4A3C 2C54 FE23 53A7