On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Ed Greshko wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > i realize this has been beaten to death, but for my own peace of > > mind, i took one of my 13 spare laptops, installed the 64-bit unity > > respin of F8 on it, did not do any further updating, and just followed > > the instructions here: > > > > http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-fedora.html > > > > result? apparently successful installation of VLC: > > > > 41 pkgs installed > > 0 updated > > 0 removed > > > > should i have expected anything untoward? > > No... And it probably would have worked out equally well had the > instructions said "use freshrpms". I don't see the need to test it. well, given the recent hubbub, i just thought it was worth verifying from a clean install. i'm just like that. :-) > 13 spare laptops, huh? I can give you a shipping address if they > are collecting too much dust. :-) heh. nice try. it comes with being an independent trainer -- have portable classroom, will travel. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Home page: http://crashcourse.ca Fedora Cookbook: http://crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Fedora_Cookbook ========================================================================
