Re: That ole Livna Problem/That ole VLC Problem

[Karl Larsen <k5di@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> >
> > > On 16/01/2008, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > > > > In a console:
> > > > >
> > > > > $ wget -c http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm
> > > > > $ rpm -ivh livna-release-8.rpm
> > > > last time i looked, you could do all that in one step:
> > > >
> > > > # rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm
> > > Yeah, see my other reply from two minutes before yours. ;)  There
> > > has been a thread on fedora-devel some time ago where Panu mentioned
> > > that this feature would/might be dropped from RPM. Further, it's a
> > > bad habit of mine to suggest wget/curl plus rpm because with that
> > > combination, a copy of the downloaded package is saved in local dir
> > > and can be reused in error conditions, whereas rpm works with a tmp
> > > file. (not so important for tiny files, though)
> >
> > true enough.  i actually would never use the above shortcut for
> > anything but the most minor of downloads and installs.
>
> Or you can just click on it in a browser and let the browser run rpm 
> for you.  Unless you just like to type...
   And I have been thinking that up to last week, I could get vlc any 
time I wanted. I am sure things are different now. And I am sure it will 
get easy again soon.


Karl