VLC & fc8

[Conrad Meyer]

On Wednesday 05 November 2008 12:42:17 am rontti wrote:
> 2008/11/5 Conrad Meyer <konrad at tylerc.org>
>
> > On Wednesday 05 November 2008 12:15:49 am rontti wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I've been searching recent VLC 0.9.5 for fc8.  I use acer aspire one
> > > netbook, which is based on fc8.  Acer has tailored fc8 to suit to a
> > > small netbook, so it can not easily be upgraded to fc9.  Acer has been
> > > quite successfull in new netbook market so I assume this problem
> > > concerns quite many people.
> > >
> > > Is there any chance to get VLC 0.9.5 for fc8 (even an unofficial one)?
> > >
> > > Regs Tarmo
> >
> > Sure, enable F-9 repositories temporarily just to install vlc (once F-9
> > has 0.9.5).
> >
> > --
> > Conrad Meyer <konrad at tylerc.org>
>
> Thanks for the reply.  I asked  recent version from fedora forums and one
> nice guy (seve) provided a 0.9.4 fc9 rpm.  When I tried to install that to
> fc8 I got a bunch of dependency errors.  After that Leigh compiled seve's
> sources against fc8 and provided those to me and I got vlc installed. 
> Based on this I assume fc9 vlc rpm's might not install to fc8?
>
> Regs Tarmo

As I said if you enable F-9 in yum it will pull in the appropriate 
dependencies.

-- 
Conrad Meyer <konrad at tylerc.org>