On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 21:17 -0500, max wrote: > Karl Larsen wrote: > > max wrote: > >> Karl Larsen wrote: > >>> max wrote: > >>>> Karl Larsen wrote: > >>>>> Ed Greshko wrote: > >>>>>> Karl Larsen wrote: > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> [root@localhost ~]# yum install vlc > >>>>>>> Setting up Install Process > >>>>>>> Parsing package install arguments > >>>>>>> Resolving Dependencies > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> The yum is not looking for a repo to get this mess. How can this > >>>>>>> be? I have removed all livna repos but it does not even use them. > >>>>>>> > >>>> > >>>> Hasn't this thread gotten too long. GO GIANTS!!!! > >>>> > >>>> See you in Green Bay, > >>>> > >>>> Max > >>> It was hard to do things on the computer and watch My Cowgirls > >>> get beat again. Hard to understand but it appears the Q'back has > >>> forgot how to pass. > >>> > >>> Karl > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> The way things are going on this thread , i don't know that I'd split > >> my attention between the computer and the television. > >> > >> 4th and game ......interception!!!!GO GIANTS!!! > >> > >> > >> > >> -Max > >> > > I went the manual way. I used rpm -i rpmname and it printed a long > > list of dependents and I one by satisfied the dependents. But when I > > tried to load the vlc file it gave me this: > > > > [root@localhost Desktop]# rpm -i --force vlc-0.8.6d-1.fc8.i386.rpm > > error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/bin/vlc;478c1014: > > cpio: read > > > > This makes me think the rpm file is bad. What do you think? > > > > Karl > > > > > Have you tried installing from source? ---- sure - makes sense...contaminate with cross-repo packages using yum, Nigel whacking it with apt-get and now, go to the source Luke... To paraphrase Yakov Smirnoff...Fedora, what a list Craig
