On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 18:07, Bill Tetens wrote:
james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
clint@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx recommended:
# yum install libdvd* libmad* totem*
Bill Tetens replied:
I tried another Yum update and it told me that those three items were not available so I assure they are installed.
No, not available means not available.
If a package doesn't exist in any repositories yum knows about, you get something like this: [root@howells root]# yum install a-non-existant-package Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base Server: Fedora Extras Server: Fedora Extras (non-US) Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Released Updates Finding updated packages Downloading needed headers Cannot find a package matching a-non-existant-package No actions to take
If it's installed, you get something like this: [root@howells root]# yum install glibc Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base Server: Fedora Extras Server: Fedora Extras (non-US) Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Released Updates Finding updated packages Downloading needed headers glibc is installed and is the latest version. No actions to take
Make sure that you have suitable repositories in your /etc/yum.conf file: at least fedora.us and rpm.livna.org.
Look at http://fedorafaq.org/#FedoraYumRepos for more details, or ask here.
HTH,
James.
Below is the text I get when I try to install libdvd* libmad* totem*. The first time I got a lot of dowloading and installing and as far as I could tell everything was downloaded.
[root@workgroup root]# yum install libdvd* libmad* totem* Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base Server: Dag APT Repository retrygrab() failed for:
http://dag.atrpms.net/fedora/2/en/i386/dag/headers/header.info Executing failover method Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Released Updates Finding updated packages Downloading needed headers Cannot find a package matching libdvd* Cannot find a package matching libmad* Cannot find a package matching totem* No actions to take
the http://dag.atrpma.net etc above I have no idea what it is. Below is the alternative repositories that I got off a site that had a file stating it is a yum.conf for fedora core. It lists the complete file for a yum.core and also included the DAG file that I used and is shown below.
[dag] name=Dag APT Repository baseurl=http://dag.freshrpms.net/fedora/$releasever/en/$basearch/dag
http://dag.atrpms.net/fedora/$releasever/en/$basearch/dag
http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/freshrpms/pub/dag/fedora/$releasever/en/$basearch/dag
I just noticed that I did not add one line below the above DAG file as follows:
##gpgcheck=1
Don't know is that is necessary or not since I don't know what it means. Hope what I have supplied is helpful.
gpgcheck=1 tells rpm to check the rpm for a gpg generated signature (the
# as always makes the line a remark), for security this is a good idea. Unfortunately, too few rpms are signed, which means that yum fails. rhn
handles this a little better, asking if I want to continue
point your browser to rpm.livna.org and add the livna repos to your yum.conf (instructions are on that page) you'll find you can download most of those rpms now! though I couldn't find the libmad there right now (I downloaded it just yesterday though so ???)
HTH Scott
Tried to do as you said with rpm.livna.org and adding the livna repos to the yum.conf but could not figure out how to do it. I did add freshrpms to the yum.conf file and when I tried to install the three files I did get all three installed and with success. However totem still fails with the same error as before. All I can figure is that the DAG function is down or something.
Anything else we can try????
Thanks Bill
