On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Monday 04 December 2006 02:12, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Sunday 03 December 2006 21:28, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 19:53, Gene Heskett wrote:
What can I replace totem with that will work?
I'm plumb out of patience with its I can't play this messages that do
not tell you what it can't play.
Try enabling the livna repository and installing vlc. It will play
about anything you throw at it.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
My current theory is that while rpm thinks there is a java installed,
all the /usr/lib/java* subdirs are empty.
So I truck meself off the the Sun site and dl
jdk-1_5_0_10-linux.rpm.bin, the very latest, shinyest version there.
But would you believe it was packed with rpm-4.0.4? And it gives the
current 4.4.2, a segfault tummy ache. Repeatedly.
And now my rpm database appears to be hosed, even an rpm --rebuilddb seems
to be hung in sleep state, no cpu usage and if I want to kill it, I'll
have to do a SIGKILL on it from htop. But, in the FWIW category, before
I started that, it reported there was no java installed, without any
errors.
Now what the heck do I do?
Usually, you delete /var/lib/rpm/__db.* and then rpm --rebuilddb.
So now I'm back to get the other package to see what falls out of the
regular linux.bin file.
Ok, that unpacked, now where can I find a .spec file so that I can pack
it with the newer rpm & then install it? Or is that not the correct
procedure now?
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Cheers, Gene
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
