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. >> >>-- >> 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? >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? > >-- >Cheers, Gene >"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." >-Ed Howdershelt (Author) >Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above >message by Gene Heskett are: >Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
