VLC and fedora 8: the last word

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Ed Greshko wrote:

> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >   i realize this has been beaten to death, but for my own peace of
> > mind, i took one of my 13 spare laptops, installed the 64-bit unity
> > respin of F8 on it, did not do any further updating, and just followed
> > the instructions here:
> >
> > http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-fedora.html
> >
> > result?  apparently successful installation of VLC:
> >
> >   41 pkgs installed
> >   0 updated
> >   0 removed
> >
> > should i have expected anything untoward?
>
> No...  And it probably would have worked out equally well had the
> instructions said "use freshrpms".  I don't see the need to test it.

well, given the recent hubbub, i just thought it was worth verifying
from a clean install.  i'm just like that.  :-)

> 13 spare laptops, huh?  I can give you a shipping address if they
> are collecting too much dust.  :-)

heh.  nice try.  it comes with being an independent trainer -- have
portable classroom, will travel.

rday
--

========================================================================
Robert P. J. Day
Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry
Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA

Home page:                                         http://crashcourse.ca
Fedora Cookbook:    http://crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Fedora_Cookbook
========================================================================