fluendo software install help

[LinuxGnu]

I have one program from fluendo that I bought, which I would like to have installed in pclos.

The program / file are:

fluendo-dvd-1.0.6-2mdv2010.0.i586.rpm

But how I installed fluendo-dvd-1.0.6-2mdv2010.0.i586.rpm !

[fishfillet]

I am no expert but here's what I would do if I have that rpm.

I will open the terminal, login as root, then cd to the directory where that file is located and then will do a

$ rpm -Uvh fluendo-dvd-1.0.6-2mdv2010.0.i586.rpm

or better as I learned from here is

$ apt-get install fluendo-dvd-1.0.6-2mdv2010.0.i586.rpm

The last command will try to resolve any dependency.

I hope this helps.

[LinuxGnu]

I got this in terminal After I did as you said


[root@localhost kjetil]# apt-get install fluendo-dvd-1.0.6-2mdv2010.0.i586.rpm
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Selecting fluendo-dvd for 'fluendo-dvd-1.0.6-2mdv2010.0.i586.rpm'
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or that some of the repositories
in use are in an inconsistent state at the moment.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
Følgende informasjon kan være til hjelp med å løse problemet:

Følgende pakker har uinnfridde avhengighetsforhold:
  fluendo-dvd: Depends: rpmlib(PayloadIsLzma) (<= 4.4.6-1) men lar seg ikke installere
E: Ødelagte pakker
[root@localhost kjetil]# rpm -Uvh fluendo-dvd-1.0.6-2mdv2010.0.i586.rpm
advarsel: fluendo-dvd-1.0.6-2mdv2010.0.i586.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 70771ff3
feil: Failed dependencies:
   rpmlib(PayloadIsLzma) <= 4.4.6-1 is needed by fluendo-dvd-1.0.6-2mdv2010.0.i586
[root@localhost kjetil]#

[genomega]

That's a good question. If it's not open source what do you do?

[wedgetail]

Well more details really needed, very little to go on apart from a non repo program not installing.

1.. Make sure you have good backup of your system so you can easily re-build in a minute or two.
2.. Is it pclos2010-kde44x or what you are running?
3.. Try the:

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$ rpm -Uvh fluendo-dvd-1.0.6-2mdv2010.0.i586.rpm

But have your backup if you want to save time if you crash the system.  No doubt you have searched Forum and know trouble likely to strike when trying outside programs. 

What does the program do?

Good luck though. 

[LinuxGnu]

I am running Gnome pclos 2010.07
And I got this in terminal when I did as you said:

[root@localhost kjetil]# rpm -Uvh fluendo-dvd-1.0.6-2mdv2010.0.i586.rpm
advarsel: fluendo-dvd-1.0.6-2mdv2010.0.i586.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 70771ff3
feil: Failed dependencies:
   rpmlib(PayloadIsLzma) <= 4.4.6-1 is needed by fluendo-dvd-1.0.6-2mdv2010.0.i586
[root@localhost kjetil]#

[wedgetail]

LinuxGnu

1.. Make sure you have your backup strategy if you go any further.  Looks very interesting to try something but at the same time could be big bang too!!!

2.. The result you have got was to be expected unfortunately.

3.. advarsel = warning,  I think this can be ignored at present

rpmlib(PayloadIsLzma) <= 4.4.6-1 is needed by fluendo-dvd-1.0.6-2mdv2010.0.i586

You need this library, and a search in Synaptic shows now such one in my version. I think it is important too but I am already out on deep water so I will ask are you crash hot at compiling/programming now is the time to tell us  

If you are an impossible tinkerer/experimenter you would go looking for the library and install and see what happens
 

but make sure you have your backup first

Ah yes and if you are successful tell us  

I did purchase a very expensive for me CAD program and this installed without problems along lines mentioned here, though I have not had time to test it in pclos2010-kde 4.4.5 I am crossing my fingers.

Just occurred to me, do some searching on lzma and PayloadIsLzma there may be some mention

[wedgetail]

Ouch, not looking good for both of us.

rpmlib(PayloadIsLzma) <= 4.4.6-1 is needed by xxxxx

Bad news for pclos2010 users, do search in Forum and you find a number of topics.

Looks like that I will be running 2009 for years to come.  

[LinuxGnu]

PayloadIsLzma 4.4.6-1 library are not in the package manager!

[gseaman]

PayloadIsLzma 4.4.6-1 library are not in the package manager!

Apparently, this is a very old dependency. Here's a post that may give you a solution.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/suse-novell-60/what-provides-rpmlib-payloadislzma-650973/#post3804128

However, isn't fluendo a multimedia codec package? Don't we have all of the codecs necessary and available in other packages?

Also, remember this is the advanced section. If you mess up your system installing outside the repos, it is assumed you understand that there is risk.

Fluendo's codecs are their flagship products. They aim to provide a complete solution for playback of proprietary media formats on computing platforms using the GStreamer media framework such as Linux and other Unix-like systems.[1]

Fluendo codecs provide playback for formats such as :
Windows Media Video (WMV)
Windows Media Audio (WMA)
H.264/MPEG-4 AVC Video
Advanced Audio Coding
MP3 Audio
MPEG-2 Video
MPEG4 Part 2 Video (DivX)
AC3 Audio downmixing
In July 2009 Fluendo released the Fluendo DVD Player for Linux systems.[2]

Fluendo products are made available together with their respective patent licenses which means that these codecs are completely legal worldwide. They are currently being sold at Fluendo web shop, Canonical Ltd. store, and Mandriva store.[3][4][5]

[wedgetail]

gseaman
Thanks for the link. I am most interested regarding *.rpm files as I have bought VariCAD, a biggish CAD package for Mechanical Engineering, the available *.rpm installed fine under pclos2009-kde also responded nicely to kpackage but not so fine under pclos2010-kde. (lzma problem)

Hower muungwana in this http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,72111.0.html tested the "Viewer" (no licence required, so the customer can view the files from VariCAD, version for both Linux and Windows). muungwana took the *.deb that is available too for VariCAD, and as I understand he knew that it was a matter of unpacking the content and try to install relevant parts in certain place(s) in the Linux Filesystem. He also got it very close to right because it ran.

I followed on using his idea and has almost got an install of the real VariCAD part requiring licence, I can only start the varicad binary from Dolphin, not from konsole (that is my first experience with that) but I am really out on deep water here as I am doing a lot of guessing.  The link you have given indicates something similar may be possible using *.rpm.  I will follow up on that as far as I can.  LinuxGnu I assume that he is aware of that his topic was transferred here my moderator (Neal) but I did put up the big warning above just in case.

LinuxGnu
No the rpmlib(PayloadIsLzma) <= 4.4.6-1 this is not available in Synaptic and as your search on the Forum no doubt has revealed pclos2010 has not at this stage support for this compression format. In the Linux world there seem to be a move to a later variant called "xz"  which has some family relation with LZMA but now causes you and me and a few others a problem. Because we have chosen to go outside Synaptic, we are no longer held by the hand.  Now we have to work hard shed tears and be frightened if we want to stay with pclos2010 to run our 'baby'.

Tell us what level of expertise you have with Linux. Are you expert with the underlying programming say compiling or even write you own programs of some form? You may be able to help solve this problem for a small number of users. Are you just a general user?

http://linuxgazette.net/162/lindholm.html I found some interesting history here worth a look. 

My next step is to see if I can figure out how difficult *.rpm packing is I did have some good information on this on a nice partition which I accidentally erased so it is all over again.  The link gseaman gave above points me to some experimenting with unpacking like *.deb and perhaps this may solve my problem.

On forum there will be plenty of people that will point us in the right direction but we have to do the hard work and risk our systems, therefore the red warning previously.

Your problem may be different in the end to mine, however follow the link I have given and read muungwana's post and my own in same thread and see if that gives you any idea.   

[wedgetail]

LinuxGnu
How did you go with your software, did you get it installed?