On Monday 04 December 2006 07:50, Matthew Saltzman wrote: >On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, 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. >> >> 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? > >http://jpackage.org. Ok, got the jpackage.repo, but yumex is having a litter of kittens: Failure getting http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/jpackage/1.6/fedora-6/free/repodata/repomd.xml: --> [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 14:22:37 GMT --> Server: Apache/2.0.54 (Debian GNU/Linux) mod_chroot/0.4 --> Vary: accept-language,accept-charset --> Accept-Ranges: bytes --> Transfer-Encoding: chunked --> Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 --> Content-Language: en --> Trying other mirror. Failure getting http://planetmirror.com/pub/jpackage/1.6/fedora-6/free/repodata/repomd.xml: --> [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 14:22:38 GMT --> Server: Apache/1.3.33 (Unix) mod_throttle/3.1.2 mod_layout/3.2.1 PHP/4.3.10 --> X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.10 --> Transfer-Encoding: chunked --> Content-Type: text/html --> Trying other mirror. Failure getting http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/ftp/pub/Linux/jpackage/1.6/fedora-6/free/repodata/repomd.xml: --> [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 14:22:38 GMT --> Server: Apache/2.0.55 (Unix) --> Content-Length: 355 --> Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 --> Trying other mirror. Failure getting ftp://ftp.pbone.net/pub/jpackage/1.6/fedora-6/free/repodata/repomd.xml: --> [Errno 4] IOError: [Errno ftp error] 550 fedora-6: No such file or directory Trying other mirror. Failure getting http://sunsite.rediris.es/mirror/jpackage/1.6/fedora-6/free/repodata/repomd.xml: --> [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 14:22:40 GMT --> Server: Apache/1.3.33 (Unix) PHP/4.3.11 mod_perl/1.29 --> Connection: close --> Transfer-Encoding: chunked --> Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 --> Trying other mirror. Failure getting ftp://gsa10.eps.cdf.udc.es/jpackage/1.6/fedora-6/free/repodata/repomd.xml: --> [Errno 4] IOError: [Errno ftp error] 550 Failed to change directory. Trying other mirror. Failure getting http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/jpackage.org/1.6/fedora-6/free/repodata/repomd.xml: --> [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 14:22:42 GMT --> Server: Apache/2.0.54 (Debian GNU/Linux) --> Content-Type: text/html --> Via: 1.1 www.mirrorservice.org --> Transfer-Encoding: chunked --> Trying other mirror. Failure getting http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/jpackage/1.6/fedora-6/free/repodata/repomd.xml: --> [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 14:22:42 GMT --> Server: Apache/2.2.2 (Unix) --> Content-Length: 324 --> Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 --> Obviously I didn't edit something right, or its all down for the count. >From the mirrorlist site above: [DIR] Parent Directory - [DIR] fedora-1/ 01-Dec-2006 17:19 - [DIR] fedora-2/ 01-Dec-2006 17:19 - [DIR] fedora-3/ 01-Dec-2006 17:20 - [DIR] fedora-4/ 01-Dec-2006 17:20 - [DIR] generic/ 01-Dec-2006 17:11 - [DIR] mandrake-9.1/ 01-Dec-2006 17:20 - [DIR] mandrake-9.2/ 01-Dec-2006 17:21 - [DIR] mandrake-10.0/ 01-Dec-2006 17:21 - [DIR] mandrake-10.1/ 01-Dec-2006 17:21 - [DIR] redflag-as-4.1/ 01-Dec-2006 17:21 - [DIR] redhat-7.2/ 01-Dec-2006 17:21 - [DIR] redhat-7.3/ 01-Dec-2006 17:21 - [DIR] redhat-8.0/ 01-Dec-2006 17:21 - [DIR] redhat-9/ 01-Dec-2006 17:22 - [DIR] redhat-el-2.1/ 01-Dec-2006 17:22 - [DIR] redhat-el-3.0/ 01-Dec-2006 17:22 - [DIR] redhat-el-4.0/ 01-Dec-2006 17:23 - [DIR] solaris/ 01-Dec-2006 17:22 - [DIR] suse-es-8.0/ 01-Dec-2006 17:22 - [DIR] suse-es-9.0/ 01-Dec-2006 17:22 - So there is no FC5 or FC6 mirrors. Next? >-- > Matthew Saltzman > >Clemson University Math Sciences >mjs AT clemson DOT edu >http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs -- Cheers & thanks Matthew, 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.
