On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 10:24 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > Karl Larsen wrote: > > >>>>>> $ 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. > > Seeing as how no one else has a problem, it isn't likely to get easy > until you fix whatever you've done wrong. You've posted 2 real errors > so far: an rpm version-numbering conflict between parts from freshrpms > and livna, and a missing gpg key for livna, either of which could be > fixed in minutes. The rest is mostly rambling about nothing in > particular. Are you getting some real error when you download or > install that livna-release-8.rpm? If so, what is it? After installing, > yum should continue past the last error you posted. ---- Les, you are forgetting that this is your poster boy for proving what is wrong with Fedora java integration. Craig
