[vlc] Re: Problems installing VLC 0.7 on linux

[Bill Eldridge]

Torsten Spindler wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 11:31, Anders Bøje Larsen wrote:
> 
>>I've downloaded the two RPM's from videolan.org, uncompressed them, and
>>when running rpm -U vlc/* --force, it say's:
> 
> 
> Installing rpms with rpm --force is a good way to make your system
> useless. This basically tells rpm to ignore almost all problems.
> I'd recommend you try 
> rpm -Uvh vlc/*
> first. v and h give some more information on what rpm is doing.

Well, "h" just prints out ### hash marks to let you know it hasn't
died during installation, which it sometimes will do.

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