Open Media System RPMs

The RPM packages are currently maintained by Andrew Meredith <andrew@anvil.org>

Introduction

The Build system used is a plain vanilla Red Hat 6.2 setup. This is chosen as a kind of lowest common denominator. It uses RPM version 3, so you won't need to upgrade to RPM 4 to install them. There have been success reports from a variety of other mainstream platforms.

The rpm archive

• The stable builds can be found here.
• The current builds can be found here.

The author recommends the use of wget to fetch the files down. Copy the filename URL out of the browser and paste onto the end of a wget command. This has the advantage of being the most stable way of getting the files. It can also be used with an additional "-c" flag to continue from where it died .... in the unfortunate event that it does.

Installing the binary RPMs

Downloaded the rpms to a directory of their own. cd to that directory as root and type:

    rpm -Uvh *.i586.rpm

Possible binary RPM install problems

libXv.so

If you get a message like "libXv.so is needed by oms" when you try and install oms, this is down to a deficiency in the XFree86-devel package .. ie nothing to do with us. A patch has been submitted to try and prevent this from happening in the future, but for now follow this procedure:

    rpm --rebuild XvBogus-0.1-1.src.rpm 
    rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/XvBogus-0.1-1.i386.rpm 

You may need to adjust the second command according to the location of your RPMS directory. You will see where it lands from the last part of the output of the --rebuild comand. Look for lines beginning "Wrote:"

Missing packages

There are a number of other packages that oms depends on. Binary and source rpms for relevant versions of these apps may be found here.

Using the source rpms

There are a number of files about the place that end in .src.rpm. For those that don't know, these contain the source code of the package, along with a build system that can create rpms for you in one command.

The command is "rpm --rebuild" with the .src.rpm file as the argument.

Updates

It is highly recommended that you join the mailing list. New packages will be announced there.

$Header: /cvs/livid/homepage/oms/rpm/index.html,v 1.2 2001/03/15 18:09:49 andrew Exp $