All done and it works well. It was a question of trying to do it without fully understanding the process.
In summary, steps 1 and 2 using gstreamer-plugins-ugly and gstreamer-ffmpeg were all that were needed. The rpms thus collected were then tested on a freshly installed XO and all working, further enhanced by addition of the Adobe Flash 11 rpm. Thanks for helping! I'm all set now to do this offline in the field. rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noa rch.rpm rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stab le.noarch.rpm yum install -y yum-utils navigate to a USB stick mkdir myrpms cd myrpms yumdownloader --resolve gstreamer-plugins-ugly yumdownloader --resolve gstreamer-ffmpeg Download Flash 11 rpm from Adobe and add to myrpms On newly installed XO navigate to myrpms and rpm -Uhv *.rpm tested on XO-1 build 883 David Leeming Solomon Islands Rural Link -----Original Message----- From: Martin Langhoff [mailto:martin.langh...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, 4 April 2012 6:14 p.m. To: David Leeming Cc: Kevin Mark; Sugar devel; OLPC Devel Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] Installing gstreamer media codecs on XO-1 On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 1:06 AM, David Leeming <da...@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". Correct. This is the preparation stage, where you need internet to prepare a USB stick. We cannot perform magic transfer of files yet :-) > (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". Those are probably the package names you want. I would say gstreamer-ffmpeg gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-ugly If it is not finding them, after you've successfully completed step 1, maybe you need to also pass an --enablerepo=rpmfusion* option to yumdownloader. > (3) So I also need to download the dependencies of the two rpmfusion rpms. > What is the "package name"? The package names are the names of the packages you want as discussed in step 2 above. I really feel we are going in circles here. Perhaps a read of the documentation for yumdownloader will help you picture what it does, so you can figure things out a bit more independently? cheers, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- Software Architect - OLPC - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel