CentOS docs - Jan 2015 - How to install libquicktime on CentOS 7 in one (or two) line of command?

Greetings,

----- Original Message -----
> Yeah, there are a lot of possibilities to my problem. But it is harder
> to verify a hypothesis than coming up with one. So, do you have any
> specific commands for the verification purpose?
I'm not sure what you mean by "specific commands for verification
process".

Step 1, delete the troubled package and erase it from your memory.

Step 2, follow the instructions about adding a repository that has the
multimedia stuff in it.
> PS: it's interesting to see that the installation thing on linux is in
> such a mess when recalling just a few years ago linux fans laughing at
> Microsoft Windows for its inconvenience of installing something, such as
> nowhere to found installer, contains virus, uneasy to manitain new
> version, including dependencies, etc, which are now a lot more serious
> on linux. What a irony.
No, it just shows how unreasonable you are being regarding this particular
topic. Basically you are sticking a fork in your eye and wondering why it feels
like a fork has been stuck in your eye... and then blaming yum for not stopping
you from sticking a fork in your eye.

Again, if you have a poorly made, ancient package you could spin your wheels
forever and never get it installed and working... so if you continue to ignore
the suggestions of people actually trying to help you reach your goal... and
continue on a tangential experiment... that fork is going to stay in your eye.

More ironical is the fact that you think it is ironical. :)  It is easy to screw
up Linux as root if you do stupid stuff.  Anyone with root access can kill any
Linux distro by doing harmful things on purpose.

TYL,
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OK, ok, let's put an end to this thread. We are all dilettantes and 
further discussion would be just a waster of time, as is everywhere in 
online forums. Fortunately I don't have critical tasks to run on linux. 
Thank everyone for your involvement. Hope I can find the link to quit here.

On 1/17/2015 1:11 PM, Scott Dowdle wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> Yeah, there are a lot of possibilities to my problem. But it is harder
>> to verify a hypothesis than coming up with one. So, do you have any
>> specific commands for the verification purpose?
> I'm not sure what you mean by "specific commands for verification
process".
>
> Step 1, delete the troubled package and erase it from your memory.
>
> Step 2, follow the instructions about adding a repository that has the
multimedia stuff in it.
>
>> PS: it's interesting to see that the installation thing on linux is
in
>> such a mess when recalling just a few years ago linux fans laughing at
>> Microsoft Windows for its inconvenience of installing something, such
as
>> nowhere to found installer, contains virus, uneasy to manitain new
>> version, including dependencies, etc, which are now a lot more serious
>> on linux. What a irony.
> No, it just shows how unreasonable you are being regarding this particular
topic. Basically you are sticking a fork in your eye and wondering why it feels
like a fork has been stuck in your eye... and then blaming yum for not stopping
you from sticking a fork in your eye.
>
> Again, if you have a poorly made, ancient package you could spin your
wheels forever and never get it installed and working... so if you continue to
ignore the suggestions of people actually trying to help you reach your goal...
and continue on a tangential experiment... that fork is going to stay in your
eye.
>
> More ironical is the fact that you think it is ironical. :)  It is easy to
screw up Linux as root if you do stupid stuff.  Anyone with root access can kill
any Linux distro by doing harmful things on purpose.
>
> TYL,

On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 01:16:40PM -0500, Heng Zhou
wrote:
> OK, ok, let's put an end to this thread. We are all dilettantes and
> further discussion would be just a waster of time, as is everywhere
> in online forums. Fortunately I don't have critical tasks to run on
> linux. Thank everyone for your involvement. Hope I can find the link
> to quit here.
Well, you may have already left, but for posterity...

The whole Windows Linux thing, I have no idea. CentOS is not the best
choice for an out of the box desktop experience--many of us have quite
successfully used it as a desktop, but it's not always out of the box
simple.  

That being said, my guess is that problem you had after installing the nux
repo is that there were already conflicting problems. The way that you
could have dealt with that would have been to figure out the conflicts,
remove them, and then use the nux repo.

As you've decided this isn't worth your time (which is fine too), I
won't
go into the details, but you could use yum provides to see what put in the
conflict, remove that, then try again with the nux repo.

I would say, if the main issue is to get a multimedia desktop, something
like LinuxMint might be more of a turnkey working solution for you.
CentOS, in theory anyway, is designed to be more of a server, or a
workstation for some situations.


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Am 17.01.2015 um 19:16 schrieb Heng Zhou:
> OK, ok, let's put an end to this thread. We are all dilettantes and
> further discussion would be just a waster of time, as is everywhere in
> online forums. Fortunately I don't have critical tasks to run on linux.
> Thank everyone for your involvement. Hope I can find the link to quit here.
>
Sad you think it is a waste of time. You might have also tried the main 
mailing list, or the main IRC channel, and not the mailing list about 
documentation (i might have missed the reference where CentOS 
documentation was mentioned).
Anyway as you asked: 
http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs has an option to 
unsubscribe.

cheers
Christoph
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Christoph Galuschka
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