-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Vaughn Treude wrote: > Kevin, It took me a while, but I finally got around to updating the sources for urpmi. The easyurpmi web site was easy to use, but I'm still having trouble. 1. The first time, it assigned me servers in Pennsylvania and the Czech Republic. There was a problem somewhere and the addmedia command didn't work at all. You can choose whichever mirror from each pull-down list that you wish. 2. So I changed the main server from Pennsylvania to Wisconsin and tried again. The addmedia commands worked, and I was able to do the command-line install of ffmpeg. But when I tried using ffmpeg, I was still missing codecs. So I fired up rpmdrake and tried to select the entire "video" section. It failed, saying it couldn't open any of the RPM's. (This shouldn't be a permission problem, because I'm running rpmdrake as root!) 3. So I changed the PLF site from the Czech Republic to Taiwan, and restarted rpmdrake. Now it has a different problem. When I try to install the video applications, it gives a huge list of items that it "can't be selected." Huh? I thought this was supposed to be automagical! So, I think I may have chosen the wrong "Penguin Liberation Front" server, but there are several. How do I know which to try? Thanks again, Vaughn ftp://mirrors.usc.edu ... Seems to be a good state-side mirror source for the non-plf sources. ftp://spirit.bentel.sk Seemed to be a good source for the PLF sources. Sometimes, with packages that are available in both Mandrake and PLF versions, you can end up installing the wrong version if your PLF source is missing or the plf mirror is not working. Once you get your mirrors sorted, you can fix the situation with: # urpme # urpmi This would remove what you have, and then install the best available. PLF packages will get installed first. There are command line switches to each of the urpm* commands, and methods to find out the names of packages. I haven't even tried to use any of the GUI rpmdrake like tools in many years, well before 10.0 came out anyway. Examples: [root@brenda root]# urpmq codecs The following packages contain codecs: real-codecs win32-codecs xanim-codecs [root@brenda root]# urpmq -i ffmpeg Name : ffmpeg Version : 0.4.9 Release : 0.pre1.0.100.2plf Group : Video Size : 398019 Architecture: i586 Source RPM : ffmpeg-0.4.9-0.pre1.0.100.2plf.src.rpm Build Host: virgo.nanardon Packager : Götz Waschk URL : http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net Summary : Hyper fast MPEG1/MPEG4/H263/RV and AC3/MPEG audio encoder Description : ffmpeg is a hyper fast realtime audio/video encoder, a streaming server and a generic audio and video file converter. It can grab from a standard Video4Linux video source and convert it into several file formats based on DCT/motion compensation encoding. Sound is compressed in MPEG audio layer 2 or using an AC3 compatible stream. Name : ffmpeg Version : 0.4.8 Release : 6mdk Group : Video Size : 388699 Architecture: i586 Summary : Hyper fast MPEG1/MPEG4/H263/RV and AC3/MPEG audio encoder Note: Mdk 10.0 is a very old distribution, at least in terms of doing any serious video work. A lot of the video tools have gotten much better in the last few years. If you are trying to transcode modern formats, or do any DVD authoring, I would suggest going with Mandriva 2007.0. HTH - -- KevinO -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGhX83I3MJ/OwKti0RAp/pAJ9Bro9Rj9ecJgRSYPOoomKYhQ1z1QCgjKKf 66k3Zl99nYRKfHVCY1/ZBHo= =qrjR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss