how do i get the downloaded vlc packages for reinstallation.

[jonniemuk]

hi folks,
i installed vlc but i already had rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
so i did this.

 [root@pc /]# rpm -ivh rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm 
warning: rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm: Header V3 RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID a3780952: NOKEY
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:rpmfusion-free-release ########################################### [100%] 
  

[root@pc /]# yum install vlc

vlc installed sucessfully but i need to install it on another machine and i dont want to download it again. so please some help

[kamirao]

Look for the rpm file for vlc in /var/cache/yum/rpmfusion*
The file name would be something like vlc-{version_number}.rpm
Copy this file on other machine. And issue this command:

rpm -ivh vlc*.rpm

If you get signature error then try with --nosignature option. If you want to auto install dependencies as well then try with:

yum localinstall vlc*.rpm

[jonniemuk]

This is what is in the named directory

[root@pc yum]# pwd
/var/cache/yum

[root@pc yum]# ls
i386 installed

As in there is no such file as vlc but there are packagekit rpm updates. And secondly the dependencies are so many and dont start with the name "vlc" so "vlc*.rpm" wild cards may not work.

[Mudgen]

This is what is in the named directory



As in there is no such file as vlc but there are packagekit rpm updates. And secondly the dependencies are so many and dont start with the name "vlc" so "vlc*.rpm" wild cards may not work.

So the cache has already been cleaned up. You'll either have to download it again, or install rpmrebuild and rebuild the rpm on the system where you installed vlc.

[jonniemuk]

So the cache has already been cleaned up. You'll either have to download it again, or install rpmrebuild and rebuild the rpm on the system where you installed vlc.

So how do i use rpmrebuild?

[Mudgen]

So how do i use rpmrebuild?

1) Install it
2) As root,

rpmrebuild vlc

It will tell you where it put the rpm.

[kurtdriver]

You may have to download it one more time. If so, yumdownloader vlc will download it and its' dependencies into the current directory. Then you can install onto other computers with yum localinstall vlc.

[Mudgen]

vlc has the following package dependencies in Fedora 16, as an example. You're going to need the rpm for each one that's not already on the target system. "yumdownloader" will only grab the dependencies not already installed on the system where yumdownloader is run, so doing it on the system where you've installed vlc is not going to get them.

Package dependencies:
aalib-libs
bash
cairo
dbus-libs
dejavu-sans-fonts
dejavu-sans-mono-fonts
dejavu-serif-fonts
freetype
freetype-freeworld
fribidi
gdk-pixbuf2
glib2
glibc
kde-filesystem
libcaca
libgcc
libICE
libpng
libprojectM
librsvg2
libSM
libstdc++
libtar
libX11
libxcb
libXext
libXpm
mesa-libGL
minizip
pulseaudio-libs
qt
qt-x11
vlc-core
xcb-util
xdg-utils
zlib

There are specific minimum version numbers for each, but grab the latest of each one and you should be good. It would also be simple to pipe the list to a bash "for" loop that did an rpmrebuild for each on the system where vlc is installed.

[jonniemuk]

thanks folks, i have been off for a while but i will try the above solutions and get back to you.