On Monday 04 December 2006 09:53, Matthew Saltzman wrote: >On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Gene Heskett wrote: >> 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: >>[...] >> >> So there is no FC5 or FC6 mirrors. >> >> Next? > >I'd just download the one RPM from the Web site. I don't think there > are any dependencies to worry about and you are rebuilding the binary > RPM anyway. That 'one' rpm, can you name it so I might be able to find it with a google search? Browsing the instructions on that site it says I *must* have jpackage-utils but thats not available either in browsing the site, nor to yumex. Presumably because there are no fc5 or fc6 versions in the mirrorlist site. Humm, would you believe that unpacking the 1.5.0.10.bin actually installed it in /usr/java! And OpenOffice found it and is apparently happy with it. Now to hunt down the old ff install and see how I'd setup the links to make it work for fc2, and dup them. There is after all, a ready supply of cats to skin. :-) >There are some jpackage derivatives in FC, so last I read (in FC5), > adding jpackage as a repo and running updates was "considered harmful" > unless you wanted to go all jpackage for those RPMs. Hummm... Thanks for the warning. -- 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.
