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In what package can I find the sql.h (Cartman) 7. Re: Firefox 1.0 RC1 in Fedora Extras? (D. D. Brierton) 8. Re: In what package can I find the sql.h (Edwin Dicker) 9. Re: Strange behaviour non-linux partitions: HELP (Hans Troost) 10. Re: In what package can I find the sql.h (Paul Howarth) 11. Re: eM Bay Reader on FC1 (linux r) 12. please assist: yum strangeness, can't update anymore (Angelo Machils) 13. Re: Strange behaviour non-linux partitions: HELP (Paul Howarth) 14. Re: java time (Kevin J. Cummings) 15. Installing problem (Muhammad Yusuf Bin Musa) 16. RE: fedora-list Digest, Vol 8, Issue 358 (Out of office reply.) (STYMA, ROBERT E (ROBERT)) 17. Re: Some thoughts about yum and repositories (Beartooth) 18. Re: Firefox 1.0 RC1 in Fedora Extras? (Federico Tello Gentile) 19. Re: please assist: yum strangeness, can't update anymore (Satish Balay) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 22:03:46 +0200 From: Hans Troost <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Strange behaviour non-linux partitions: HELP To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx Message-ID: <200410292203.46440.fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi all, About a week ago Michael Schwendt helped me out after I used qtparted to create a FAT32 partition on my disk, which damaged my configuration. I had to change my grub.conf, the fstab etc.... (could not boot anymore). After that everything seems to work fine again, but... now some problems come up with my non-linux partitions: I mount them (also have the NTFS-driver installed), see them but... I don't see "normal" windows files on it (for example /dev/hda2 is my WinXP boot partition, working fine, /dev/hda10 contains some file I placed there with fedora, before the "crash") The strange thing is: on the "non-linux" drives (both the NTFS and the VFAT ones) I see only the files that really are on /dev/hda9. To be honest: /dev/hda9 indeed is the new VFAT-partition I created with qtparted, causing the "crash" The WinXP installation still works fine and I placed a partition-specific named, empty text-file on each partition, using WinXP. The file on /dev/hda9 (called g-30.txt (G:-drive on windows, 30Gb) is shown on /dev/hda2, dev/hda5, dev/hda10 and /dev/hda11 as the only file (which is correct for /dev/hda9, is is the first and only file on it) So it seems that the drives are no longer (as it was before the crash) correctly "mapped" So I think something more has gone wrong then I have repaired, following Michael Schwendt's instructions (thanks again Michael!!) This is my disk: fdisk -l output: Disk /dev/hda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 192 1542208+ 12 Compaq diagnostics /dev/hda2 193 1404 9735390 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda3 1405 19457 145010722+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 1405 5400 32097838+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda6 5401 5413 104391 83 Linux /dev/hda7 5414 6718 10482381 83 Linux /dev/hda8 6719 6972 2040223+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hda9 15149 19065 31463271 b W95 FAT32 /dev/hda10 19066 19457 3148708+ b W95 FAT32 /dev/hda11 6973 10888 31455238+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA) Partition table entries are not in disk order This is /etc/fstab: LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda8 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 /dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0 /dev/hda2 /mnt/windows ntfs auto,ro,umask=000 0 0 /dev/hda5 /mnt/windows ntfs auto,ro,umask=000 0 0 /dev/hda9 /mnt/windows vfat auto,rw,umask=000 0 0 /dev/hda10 /mnt/windows vfat auto,rw,umask=000 0 0 /dev/hda11 /mnt/windows vfat auto,rw,umask=000 0 0 So this is the output of mount -l: /dev/hda7 on / type ext3 (rw) [/] none on /proc type proc (rw) none on /sys type sysfs (rw) none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw) /dev/hda6 on /boot type ext3 (rw) [/boot] none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) /dev/hda2 on /mnt/windows type ntfs (ro,umask=000) /dev/hda5 on /mnt/windows type ntfs (ro,umask=000) /dev/hda9 on /mnt/windows type vfat (rw,umask=000) /dev/hda10 on /mnt/windows type vfat (rw,umask=000) /dev/hda11 on /mnt/windows type vfat (rw,umask=000) sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw) Can anybody help me out? -- With kind regards, Hans Troost e-mail: fedora + chr(64) + troost.tweakdsl.nl ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 13:04:04 -0700 From: Brian Mury <b.mury@xxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: fedora-list Digest, Vol 8, Issue 358 (Out of office reply.) To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Message-ID: <1099080244.14509.11.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Content-Type: text/plain On Fri, 2004-29-10 at 12:55 -0600, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > Oh my God... this idiot's going to be gone for a *year* and we're going I think "annual leave" means his yearly vacation. He's probably gone for two or three weeks. > to get automated replies daily quoting the entire digest? Arrrgh... Maybe, maybe not. Most software, at least in my experience, is smart enough to only send an out-of-office reply to the first mail from any sender. Since he's getting the digest, it always comes from the same sender. I guess we'll find out tomorrow... ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 14:23:11 -0600 From: Robin Laing <Robin.Laing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: java time To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Message-ID: <4182A6AF.1060609@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Mike Markiw III wrote: > >>Is it just me, or are the output of both the "date" command and the java >>program exactly the same? :-) > > > Close, but no cigar ;-) The hours are different by 1 (22 hundred hours vs. 23 hundred hours). I would check to see if the daylight savings time settings are the reason. With a difference of only one hour, it seems like a strange but possible culprit. Just a thought. > > -Mike > > > My shell date command indicates that it is in DST. Try it on Monday and see what happens. Daylight savings time will be over. :) -- Robin Laing ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 21:23:18 +0100 From: Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: Strange behaviour non-linux partitions: HELP To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Message-ID: <1099081398.29766.1856.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Content-Type: text/plain On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 21:03, Hans Troost wrote: > Hi all, > > About a week ago Michael Schwendt helped me out after I used qtparted to create a FAT32 partition on my disk, which damaged my configuration. I had to change my grub.conf, the fstab etc.... (could not boot anymore). After that everything seems to work fine again, but... > > now some problems come up with my non-linux partitions: I mount them (also have the NTFS-driver installed), see them but... > > I don't see "normal" windows files on it (for example /dev/hda2 is my WinXP boot partition, working fine, /dev/hda10 contains some file I placed there with fedora, before the "crash") > The strange thing is: on the "non-linux" drives (both the NTFS and the VFAT ones) I see only the files that really are on /dev/hda9. > To be honest: /dev/hda9 indeed is the new VFAT-partition I created with qtparted, causing the "crash" > > The WinXP installation still works fine and I placed a partition-specific named, empty text-file on each partition, using WinXP. > The file on /dev/hda9 (called g-30.txt (G:-drive on windows, 30Gb) is shown on /dev/hda2, dev/hda5, dev/hda10 and /dev/hda11 as the only file (which is correct for /dev/hda9, is is the first and only file on it) > So it seems that the drives are no longer (as it was before the crash) correctly "mapped" > > So I think something more has gone wrong then I have repaired, following Michael Schwendt's instructions (thanks again Michael!!) > > This is my disk: > > fdisk -l output: > Disk /dev/hda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hda1 * 1 192 1542208+ 12 Compaq diagnostics > /dev/hda2 193 1404 9735390 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/hda3 1405 19457 145010722+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) > /dev/hda5 1405 5400 32097838+ 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/hda6 5401 5413 104391 83 Linux > /dev/hda7 5414 6718 10482381 83 Linux > /dev/hda8 6719 6972 2040223+ 82 Linux swap > /dev/hda9 15149 19065 31463271 b W95 FAT32 > /dev/hda10 19066 19457 3148708+ b W95 FAT32 > /dev/hda11 6973 10888 31455238+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA) > > Partition table entries are not in disk order > > > This is /etc/fstab: > LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 > LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 > none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 > none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 > none /proc proc defaults 0 0 > none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 > /dev/hda8 swap swap defaults 0 0 > /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 > /dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 > /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0 > /dev/hda2 /mnt/windows ntfs auto,ro,umask=000 0 0 > /dev/hda5 /mnt/windows ntfs auto,ro,umask=000 0 0 > /dev/hda9 /mnt/windows vfat auto,rw,umask=000 0 0 > /dev/hda10 /mnt/windows vfat auto,rw,umask=000 0 0 > /dev/hda11 /mnt/windows vfat auto,rw,umask=000 0 0 Why do you have 5 different partitions mounted at /mnt/windows? Only the last of them to be mounted will be visible (most likely /dev/hda9 from your description). Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 21:24:03 +0100 From: Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: fedora-list Digest, Vol 8, Issue 358 (Out of office reply.) To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Message-ID: <1099081443.29766.1858.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Content-Type: text/plain On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 21:04, Brian Mury wrote: > On Fri, 2004-29-10 at 12:55 -0600, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > > Oh my God... this idiot's going to be gone for a *year* and we're going > > I think "annual leave" means his yearly vacation. He's probably gone for > two or three weeks. > > > to get automated replies daily quoting the entire digest? Arrrgh... > > Maybe, maybe not. Most software, at least in my experience, is smart > enough to only send an out-of-office reply to the first mail from any > sender. Since he's getting the digest, it always comes from the same > sender. I guess we'll find out tomorrow... We already know; there have been two auto-replies already. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 15:28:54 -0500 (CDT) From: Cartman <cartman8d@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: In what package can I find the sql.h To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx Message-ID: <20041029202854.44983.qmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hi, I need install the package that contain the sql.h which is it? ===== Gracias. Atentamente, CARLOS ARTURO TRUJILLO SILVA _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Información de Estados Unidos y América Latina, en Yahoo! Noticias. Visítanos en http://noticias.espanol.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 21:26:56 +0100 From: "D. D. Brierton" <darren@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: Firefox 1.0 RC1 in Fedora Extras? To: "Fedora Users' List" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Message-ID: <1099081616.25732.196.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Content-Type: text/plain On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 20:16, David Cary Hart wrote: > Actually 1.0RC1 has now been released. It's a complex build from source > but an easy install from the downloadable installer. VERY much worth the > effort. Yeah, I know RC1 is out. But I was hoping to help out with the Fedora Extras RPMs -- I don't want to download the version from Mozilla.org. Thanks anyway. Best, Darren -- ===================================================================== D. D. Brierton darren@xxxxxxxxxxx www.dzr-web.com Trying is the first step towards failure (Homer Simpson) ===================================================================== ------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 22:34:16 +0200 From: "Edwin Dicker" <fedora@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: In what package can I find the sql.h To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Message-ID: <001f01c4bdf6$a8e04110$0201010a@wxpedwin> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cartman" <cartman8d@xxxxxxxxx> To: <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, 29 October, 2004 22:28 Subject: In what package can I find the sql.h > Hi, I need install the package that contain the sql.h > which is it? > > ===== > Gracias. > Atentamente, > CARLOS ARTURO TRUJILLO SILVA There seems to be a sql.h file in the unixODBC-devel.i386 0:2.2.8-5 package. just do a 'yum provides sql.h' and the result will be presented to you. hth Edwin ------------------------------ Message: 9 Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 22:38:41 +0200 From: Hans Troost <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: Strange behaviour non-linux partitions: HELP To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Message-ID: <200410292238.41391.fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Paul, Perhaps it is not wise (it is just to be able to "share" files and perhaps 1 is enough. OK, I can change that. But.. the question still remains.. it worked before so I am a little bit confused about your answer:"Only the last..... Or do I have it wrong (bad short-term memory??) On Friday 29 October 2004 22:23, Paul Howarth wrote: > > Why do you have 5 different partitions mounted at /mnt/windows? > > Only the last of them to be mounted will be visible (most likely > /dev/hda9 from your description). > > Paul. > -- > Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> -- With kind regards, Hans Troost e-mail: fedora + chr(64) + troost.tweakdsl.nl ------------------------------ Message: 10 Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 21:40:23 +0100 From: Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: In what package can I find the sql.h To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Message-ID: <1099082423.29766.1872.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Content-Type: text/plain On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 21:28, Cartman wrote: > Hi, I need install the package that contain the sql.h > which is it? unixODBC-devel Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> ------------------------------ Message: 11 Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 16:40:41 -0400 From: linux r <linuxr@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: eM Bay Reader on FC1 To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Message-ID: <b60a966f0410291340669bdbc4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 08:32:42 -0700 (PDT), Alan Mead <cubrewer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have a Gateway with one of those multiple-media readers > (SD/DF/...). In KDE's control panel, under information, the device > itself seems to be seen, attached to "USB UHCI Root Hub (4)"... Does > anyone know how I read media on this thing? > > -Alan > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > What do you have in /dev? Also....why don't you do a 'yum update' and update everything on the box. I had an external reader that gave me grief and I di dthat and no more problems. Not sure about KDE's control panel, I don't use it. Need to find out how Linux treats that. Windows sees both the usb reader, AND the media as seperate devices. Basically I had usb problems but this fixed it, it may have been some sort of differrence between v1 and v2 w/FC1. -- Marc Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think. Ayn Rand ------------------------------ Message: 12 Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 22:41:15 +0200 From: Angelo Machils <angelus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: please assist: yum strangeness, can't update anymore To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx Message-ID: <4182AAEB.1000705@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Hello there. I'm using the yum.conf from http://www.fedorafaq.org/#yumconf and now I get this message when I try to do an update: inding updated packages Downloading needed headers Resolving dependencies .Package vlc needs libdvdnav.so.0, this is not available. Vlc is the latest version (0.7.2) and libdvdnav.so.0 is available in the /usr/lib directory. The version of libdvdnav is libdvdnav-0.1.9-3.1.fc2.fr..... Thanks in advance, Angelo ------------------------------ Message: 13 Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 21:43:03 +0100 From: Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: Strange behaviour non-linux partitions: HELP To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Message-ID: <1099082583.29766.1876.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Content-Type: text/plain On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 21:38, Hans Troost wrote: > Perhaps it is not wise (it is just to be able to "share" files and perhaps 1 is enough. > OK, I can change that. > But.. the question still remains.. it worked before so I am a little bit confused about your answer:"Only the last..... > > Or do I have it wrong (bad short-term memory??) I think it's your memory to be honest. If you create directories /mnt/windows/c /mnt/windows/d ... /mnt/windows/g etc. and mount each partition on the appropriate directory, things will be much less confusing. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> ------------------------------ Message: 14 Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 16:45:36 -0400 From: "Kevin J. Cummings" <cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: java time To: Robin.Laing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Message-ID: <4182ABF0.7060500@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Robin Laing wrote: > Mike Markiw III wrote: > >> >>> Is it just me, or are the output of both the "date" command and the java >>> program exactly the same? :-) >> >> >> >> Close, but no cigar ;-) The hours are different by 1 (22 hundred >> hours vs. 23 hundred hours). I would check to see if the daylight >> savings time settings are the reason. With a difference of only one >> hour, it seems like a strange but possible culprit. Just a thought. >> >> -Mike >> >> >> > > My shell date command indicates that it is in DST. > > Try it on Monday and see what happens. Daylight savings time will be > over. :) > But his timezone was GEST in both cases. I'm not familiar with that timezone. Does it have DST? Does it end when the USA's ends? -- Kevin J. Cummings kjchome@xxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------ Message: 15 Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 05:48:09 +0900 From: Muhammad Yusuf Bin Musa <azarias106@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: Installing problem To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx Message-ID: <4182AC89.7000207@xxxxxxxxx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Hi, My name is Yusuf. I have problems to install fedora core in my computer. I can't get into the installation interface. When the program asked wheather I want to install with the graphic installtion or text,I choosed graphic but my computer just reboot itself and can't go to the setup.Its also happens when I choosed the text installation. What should I do? My computer hadware is as follow Pentium 4 2.8 mhz Radeon 9600 XT graphic card. P4P800 motherboard by asus Seagate 160gb hardrive 516 ram please help me. Yusuf ------------------------------ Message: 16 Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 15:48:10 -0500 From: "STYMA, ROBERT E (ROBERT)" <stymar@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: RE: fedora-list Digest, Vol 8, Issue 358 (Out of office reply.) To: "'For users of Fedora Core releases'" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Message-ID: <17D8724A2A8D9542B2B8AE546B9E5BBC02C08E98@AZ4315EXCH001U> Content-Type: text/plain I was on digest mode for some time, you get a new one every time there are 18 messages collected. On this list, that's about one every half hour. Bob Styma > ------------------------------ Message: 17 Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 16:53:11 -0400 From: Beartooth <beartooth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: Some thoughts about yum and repositories To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx Message-ID: <pan.2004.10.29.20.53.09.446631@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 19:41:17 -0400, William Hooper wrote: > Now you've hit the problem. Too many people are convinced that there is > some magic in the yum.conf instead of actually trying to understand it. > I cringe every time I see someone pointed to a FAQ to get a yum.conf > rather than told how to make their own changes. Make that one of the problems, or part of the problem. Some of us would rather run anything than MegaScat, and find linux (especially RedHat & Fedora) somewhat less unapproachable than other distributions -- but can't begin to follow such explanations as we commonly find, even if we're at least mildly interested. (Several of my friends and correspondents refuse even to try linux, despite their dissatisfaction with Windows, because they see indications of the time & effort I put into it.) Even such as we do notice that running yum is easier than up2date (or, afaict, apt). But without being able to read (let alone write) code, we can at least use a yum.conf if we can copy or download it. > The beauty of yum is that it uses standard protocols so you can easily > look at the repos with your web browser and test to your hearts content > with something like wget. What are repos, and why do you look at them? What would you test?? I did use wget once -- with someone walking me through, step by step. I don't have the kind of mind that can recall the details, nor even where to look for them. I remember that it did a great swath of downloading all at once, instead of laboriously one rpm after another ... But even though I know enough to look at man wget, the result is the usual: I'm lost before I get very far. And this is still happening after years of linux. -- Beartooth Autodidact, curmudgeonly codger learning linux Remember I know precious little of what I'm talking about! ------------------------------ Message: 18 Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 16:57:07 -0400 From: Federico Tello Gentile <federicotg@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: Firefox 1.0 RC1 in Fedora Extras? To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Message-ID: <39f69a87041029135737e4559c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII http://fedoranews.org/tchung/firefox/ There is how to make an RPM from the tar.gz binary. I did it and that is the Firefox I'm using to post this. On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 21:26:56 +0100, D. D. Brierton <darren@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 20:16, David Cary Hart wrote: > > Actually 1.0RC1 has now been released. It's a complex build from source > > but an easy install from the downloadable installer. VERY much worth the > > effort. > > Yeah, I know RC1 is out. But I was hoping to help out with the Fedora > Extras RPMs -- I don't want to download the version from Mozilla.org. > ------------------------------ Message: 19 Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 16:02:12 -0500 (CDT) From: Satish Balay <balay@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: please assist: yum strangeness, can't update anymore To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0410291559310.3653@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Angelo Machils wrote: > Hello there. > > I'm using the yum.conf from http://www.fedorafaq.org/#yumconf and now I get > this message when I try to do an update: > inding updated packages > Downloading needed headers > Resolving dependencies > .Package vlc needs libdvdnav.so.0, this is not available. > Vlc is the latest version (0.7.2) and libdvdnav.so.0 is available in the > /usr/lib directory. The version of libdvdnav is > libdvdnav-0.1.9-3.1.fc2.fr..... This is a repository problem with 'vlc' (whichever repo it came from) There is a new version of libdvdnav - but 'vlc' which is currently installed (from the same repository?) depends on the old libdvdnav currently installed. (so the new libdvdnav package breaks this dependency) The solution is to have an updated vnc build with the updated libdvdnav If you don't care for the new libdvdnav - just do: yum --exclude=libdvdnav update Satish ------------------------------ -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list End of fedora-list Digest, Vol 8, Issue 360 *******************************************
