That ole Livna Problem/That ole VLC Problem

Karl Larsen k5di at zianet.com
Wed Jan 16 15:48:10 UTC 2008


Les Mikesell wrote:
> 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...
>
    And I have been thinking that up to last week, I could get vlc any 
time I wanted. I am sure things are different now. And I am sure it will 
get easy again soon.


Karl




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