[PlanetCCRMA] Can't apt-get planetccrma-audiovideoapps-develfor fc4

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 18:03 +0000, BJaY wrote:
> >> On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 10:46 +0000, BJaY wrote:
> >>>> Hi, I just tried to get the devel packages for fc4 and apt says the
> packages
> >>>> do not exists, I checked the repository manually and see 2005 and 2006
> >>>> versions, check with apt-get install planetccrma-audiovideoapps, says
> up to
> >>>> date.
> >>>>
> >>>> Any suggestions ?
> >>
> >>> What is exactly the command line you are using and the error you are
> >>> getting? It should be:
> >>>   apt-get install planetccrma-audiovideoapps-devel
> >>
> >> Thats the command line I use.
> >> I get
> >> E: Couldn't find package planetccrma-audiovideoapps-devel
> >> also, I get a warning about being unable to get an exclusive lock on
> >> /var/lib/rpm/Packages, I'm not aware of running any other install
> process. I
> >> did a dist-upgrade just before because the above failed because of a
> missing
> >> fox(?) library. This is all in an effort to build vst. I'm confused.
> 
> >There's two issues (or maybe three?)
> 
> >a) the problem with the exclusive lock, I assume you are running as root.
> >Try, for example, just running "rpm -q -a", does it run and finish? Check
> >that you don't have any hung rpm or apt processes that may be using the
> >apt database. If there are no processes then maybe you exited improperly
> >from rpm (or it crashed badly), check to see what you have in:
> >   ls -l /var/lib/rpm
> >if you have files named __db.* then erase them.
> 
> >b) the problem with the fox library, there is a known conflict with
> >freshrpms, fox and rezound (freshrpms has a newer version of fox that
> >conflicts with rezound from Planet CCRMA)
> 
> >c) not finding planetccrma-audiovideoapps-devel: make sure that you do
> >have the Planet CCRMA repositories in your configuration files (maybe you
> >commented them out temporarily?)
> 
> >BTW, "-devel" will install most of the Planet CCRMA devel packages but
> >perhaps not the ones you need. It is a good start, of course.
> 
> OK, fixed the lock problem OK. I think when I did a dist-upgrade, a new
> version of apt came in, and renamed my planetccrma.list to
> planetccrma.list.rpmsave, I renamed it back and the package was found. Now
> I've got unsatisfied dependancies alsaplayer-devel & fox-devel. I did a full
> install of FC4 to try to avoid problems with missing packages.

Could you be more specific about the exact messages you are getting?

-- Fernando