Updates SOLVED!

Tue Jan 15 20:30:37 UTC 2008

Nigel Henry wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 January 2008 17:02, Karl Larsen wrote:
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>> Nigel Henry wrote:
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>>> On Tuesday 15 January 2008 03:40, Craig White wrote:
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>>>> On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 00:04 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote:
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>>>>> On Monday 14 January 2008 19:50, Karl Larsen wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Putting Synaptic to one side, and after having done the apt-get update,
>>>>> you can simply type.
>>>>> apt-get install vlc
>>>>>
>>>>> To say the least, it will be interesting to see if apt-get has any
>>>>> problems with the vlc package, especially as you've had problems
>>>>> installing it with Yum.
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>>>> I really have to admire the ingenuity...telling someone that is stepping
>>>> on their dick with cross repo contamination from yum to use apt-get.
>>>>
>>>> I'm going to monitor this thread for sure
>>>>
>>>> Craig
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>>> The only reason I suggested apt-get, is that he would be effectively
>>> starting with a clean sheet. I gave him the URL for adding freshrpms
>>> to /etc/apt/sources.list, so he then could do an apt-get update, which
>>> would download the package lists for the first time with apt-get, for
>>> fedora updates, everything, and "only" freshrpms. Livna not entering the
>>> equation.
>>>
>>> Then an apt-get install vlc  may have printed out some usefull info.
>>>
>>> If he does have some problem with Yum, trying with Apt, if Apt worked ok,
>>> might confirm it.
>>>
>>> He doesn't appear to have read what I said though, as now he's trying to
>>> get apt-get to get vlc from Livna.
>>>
>>> I'll post him back on list, and try and find out what he's done.
>>>
>>> Nigel.
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>>     Hi Nigel, I wanted to see if apt-get would work with livna and found
>> out it doesn't as I sent you. I am now looking at removing yum from this
>> F8 and from the F8 DVD re-load an entire new yum.  But not yet sure I
>> can do that.
>>     
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> Now be carefull!! You've already been caught once on the deps to be removed 
> issue. I may be wrong, but I don't think you can remove Yum with Yum, and it 
> may want to remove RPM. I may be wrong here too, but that's the last thing 
> you want to do.
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>>     But it doesn't matter much. This is just fun to see if old time
>> methods work. If not nothing much lost.
>>     
>
> Meanwhile, back at the ranch, and Apt.
>
> Did you try apt-get just with the freshrpms line (that I gave to you) 
> uncommented in /etc/apt/sources.list?  Comment out the livna line (with a # 
> at the start of the line), then run apt-get update, which will update the 
> package lists to include the freshrpms one.
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> Now, and before doing anything else, type synaptic on the CLI (presuming you 
> installed it). Click on "Settings", then "Preferences", and under the 
> "General" tab, "Appearance" , check the box "Show package properties in the 
> main window", then Apply, and OK.
>
> Now I don't know where you originally got vlc from, as it seems that at some 
> time or other you've had both the livna, and freshrpms repo's enabled.
>
> Be that as it may, scroll down to the x264 package, click on it, and select 
> the "Common" tab in the lower half of the window. This will tell you who the 
> maintainer is. Mine came from freshrpms, and says.
> Maintainer:  Matthias Saou <matthias at rpmforge.net>
>
> As your near it, scroll back to vlc, and again click on it (whether it's 
> installed or not), and again look at who the maintainer is for the available, 
> or installed package.
>
> Now scroll to wxGTK, and check out the maintainer. wxGTK is from Fedora, so 
> that won't be a problem as regards 3rd party repo conflicts.
>
> Now scroll back to mpeg32dec. This should show Matthias Saou as the maintainer 
> (freshrpms). It does in my case, where vlc was installed from freshrpms.
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> There were a bunch of other deps when I installed vlc from freshrpms, and I 
> gave you a list of these on a previous post. Check these out also on synaptic 
> to verify that they all have the same maintainer.
>
> The only ones that are repo specific (not from fedora)  are a52dec, faad2, 
> libdvbpsi, libdvdnav, libopendaap, and vcdimager. All the rest are from 
> fedora, and should present no problems. We've already confirmed that if you 
> originally got vlc from freshrpms, the maintainer should be shown as Matthias 
> Saou, so the packages above should also show him as the maintainer.
>
> Presuming that when you checked x264, and mpeg32dec, that they both came from 
> Matthias Saou's freshrpms, and the packages above are also showing the 
> maintainer as Matthias Saou move on to the next paragraph.
>
> As per my earlier post, scroll back to SDL, and see if it's installed. If not, 
> install it. Same goes for akode, and perhaps pwlib (not sure about that one 
> though). All these packages are from Fedora, so if not installed, are not 
> going to create any 3rd party repo conflicts anyway.
>
> Now and just for the sake of it, do another apt-get update. Packages may have 
> been updated during this time of checking out the status of various packages.
>
> 2 choices now. You can run apt-get dist-upgrade, which will bring the system 
> up to speed with all the latest updates, or if your impatient try for the vlc 
> package again, with an apt-get install vlc.
>
> Please post the output of the apt-get install vlc if go for that.
>
> All the best Karl. Frustrating isn't it.
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> Nigel.
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>>  Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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    Yes it is Nigle. But I learned you can't remove yum because of 2 
packages dependant on it. The other 3 I could and did. But the packages 
didn't empty or remove the things in the directory. So I did that and 
reinstalled the 3 rpm files that support yum and it works again fine but 
it still is not fixed. By the way I removed all the files in 
/var/chase/yum/. That changed nothing I can see.

    My F8 is right now a dead Indian. I really liked it except for 
pulseaudio, that got me into deleting it. 


Karl


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