Cory, Contribs are rpms that aren't officially in the distro and are semi-supported by MDK in that they are actually packaged by the community not by MDK's people. (Rough explanation... sorry for any inaccuracy.) A good place to find info on mirrors and get the instructions you'll need for adding them to urpmi is
http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php (Yep plf to the rescue!) just click in the box on the left choose your mirror and at the bottom it will spit out the string you need to enter to make urpmi aware of it. Contribs btw is the second one from the top. James On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 19:03, Rolf Pedersen wrote: > . wrote: > > Can you elaborate on what a contrib/ source is? I have the CD > > sources, an ftp source of the original 9.0 distro, and ftp update > > source, and the PLF source. I'm not sure what you mean. > > > > Thanks, > > Cory > > > > -------- Original Message -------- > > Subject: Re: [expert] mplayer and mencoder on 9.0 > > Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2003 18:37:24 -0800 > > From: Rolf Pedersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > . wrote: > > > Thanks for the help. I was not aware of the PLF website. I added one > > > of the mirrors to urpmi. When I went to install it, it failed on > > > dependencies: > > > Installation failed: > > > libdv2 is needed by mplayer-0.90-0.rc3.2plf > > > libdv.so.2 is needed by mplayer-0.90-0.rc3.2plf > > > liblzo.so.1 is needed by mplayer-0.90-0.rc3.2plf > > > > > > Normally, I'd expect urpmi to take care of the dependecies, but it > > > isn't taking care of these. I was wondering if you could confirm the > > > existence of these three files on your system, and tell me which rpm's > > > provides them. Once you've located them, you can run "rpm -q > > > --whatprovides <fully qualified file name>" to find the rpm. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Cory > > > > It appears you need to add a 9.0 contrib/ source. > > > > > It's a directory on the Mandrake mirrors full of rpms. It is for > downloaders a source of software that is included in the commercial > pack. Not sure if there is a one-to-one correspondence but it is > software in addition to what is available on the 'gpl download edition'. > Some non-gpl stuff and some stuff excluded for space considerations. > This is stated at the plf site that you need to add the contrib source. > I used the same syntax as the plf urpmiefier gave for the plf source > but changed the name from plf to contrib, gave a url for the > contrib/RPMS directory, and gave 'with synthesis.hdlist2.cz' for the > hdlist location. You will see this file is included in the RPMS > directory. Funny thing, addmedia failed the first time but completed > the second try. I think it has to do with busy mirror or borderline > problems negotiating a login. > > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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