On Sat, 2005-12-31 at 16:56 +0000, Kelvin Lawson wrote: > > I tried downloading the RPM. It seems for some reason that Firefox and > > Konqueror on FC4 wants to recognize it as a RealPlayer type file and > > opens it with a media player instead of saving the file. I know there's > > a way to specify a preferred mime type with the file on the Web server, > > but I don't remember off hand how to do it. VMware has the same problem > > by the way when downloading their RPMs. They really need to fix it. > > Thanks for letting me know. I've added a .bin extension on there now: > > http://www.kibosh.org/pykaraoke/pykaraoke-0.4.1-1.noarch.rpm.bin
Thanks - I'm now able to download and rename the file. Another option might be to zip the file (.rpm.zip). My thought here is that most people might naturally just try to execute a .bin file instead of renaming it, but will try to unpack the contents of a .zip or other packed format. Sun delivers Java RPMs as .rpm.bin files that, when executed, unpack to a > > Also, I noticed the other day that the first RPM file installs and runs > > properly on FC4 as long as you are root, but doesn't work properly with > > normal user rights. I'll see if I can dig up the exact error next > > opportunity. > > It needs to run as root so it can install into /usr/bin and friends. ...Sorry, I think I mis-spoke (mis-wrote). What I meant by this is that the RPM installs just fine (I know you need root privileges for that). I meant to say that PyKaraoke itself, when installed from the RPM, runs as expected only when logged on as root. If you try and run it as a normal user, it errors out. By contrast, the non-RPM installed version appears to work on FC4 with normal user rights. Hope that helps and thanks! I'll try the updated RPM in a bit - I just got "that little talk" from my wife about being on the computer... :) Cheers, Chris -- ====================== "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." -- Albert Einstein ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ Pykaraoke-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pykaraoke-discuss
