[Sugar-devel] Installing gstreamer media codecs on XO-1

[Peter Robinson]

On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 6:06 AM, David Leeming
<david at leeming-consulting.com> wrote:
>
> A few stumbling blocks for me;
>
> (1) the two localinstall commands below each need Internet connections to
> succeed on a fresh install, or the error is "cannot retrieve repository
> metadata".

Or:
rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm

> (2) I don't know what to use for "package1 package 2 etc"; I tried using
> gstreamer-plugins-ugly and gstreamer-ffmpeg and it says "no match for
> argument".

1) needs to succeed :-)

> (3) So I also need to download the dependencies of the two rpmfusion rpms.
> What is the "package name"?

That's what yum-downloader does, it grabs the packages and all the
dependencies for those packages.

>  start from a fresh install on an XO
>  yum localinstall --nogpgcheck rpmfusion-free-stable.rpm
>  yum localinstall --nogpgcheck rpmfusion-nonfree-stable.rpm
>  yum install yum-utils (may be yumutils)
>  mkdir myrpms
>  cd myrpms
>  yumdownloader --resolve package1 package2 ... packageN
>
> Once yumdownloader is done, the relevant rpms and their dependencies
> are in the myrpms directory. Copy the directory to USB flash disk.
>
> This has been the preparation stage.
>
> Now take that USB flash disk to existing XOs, command is:
>
>  rpm -Uvh /media/mydisk/myrpms/*rpm
>
> alternatively
>
>  yum localinstall /media/mydisk/myrpms/*rpm
>
> This thread started a long tome ago on devel at lists.laptop.org, it has
> nothing to do with sugar. Now sure how we landed here.
>
> cheers,
>
>
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