That ole Livna Problem/That ole VLC Problem

[Les Mikesell]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> 
>> On 16/01/2008, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>>> In a console:
>>>>
>>>> $ wget -c http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm
>>>> $ rpm -ivh livna-release-8.rpm
>>> last time i looked, you could do all that in one step:
>>>
>>> # rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm
>> Yeah, see my other reply from two minutes before yours. ;)  There
>> has been a thread on fedora-devel some time ago where Panu mentioned
>> that this feature would/might be dropped from RPM. Further, it's a
>> bad habit of mine to suggest wget/curl plus rpm because with that
>> combination, a copy of the downloaded package is saved in local dir
>> and can be reused in error conditions, whereas rpm works with a tmp
>> file. (not so important for tiny files, though)
> 
> true enough.  i actually would never use the above shortcut for
> anything but the most minor of downloads and installs.

Or you can just click on it in a browser and let the browser run rpm for 
you.  Unless you just like to type...

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