Graveman with MP3 support - howto

[tardis_junkie]

Hi,

After looking into this for a while I have hopefully found a solution.

Download the SRPMS for both sox and graveman.

Install libid3tag.devel lame.devel

rebuild sox

rebuild graveman

rpm --force -Uvh sox*
rpm --force -Uvh graveman*

Run graveman and if needed rescan the external programs and you should now have mp3 support - well it workd for me.

For thos you don not wish to rebuild the RPMs I will make them available at:

http://www.tardis.dyndns.tv/sox/sox-12.17.7-3.i386.rpm
http://www.tardis.dyndns.tv/sox/sox-...7.7-3.i386.rpm
http://www.tardis.dyndns.tv/sox/grav...3.8-2.i386.rpm

These files are hosted from my home server so do not expect great download speeds, they are only small though.

Hope this helps.

[ilja]

rpm --force -Uvh sox*
rpm --force -Uvh graveman*

If you want to keep your system, never ever do force!!

[PeTzZz]

Moved to How-To Articles.

Yes, don't use force. You should remove them from your post.

[tardis_junkie]

Hi,

Being as you are essentially just replacing packages for the same versions only slightly modified it should not be a problem.

The other way would be to remove the package ignoring any dependency problems, then installing the new packages.

If this is a better solution please let me know.

Regards.

[ilja]

try it with -F

     rpm {-F|--freshen} [install-options] PACKAGE_FILE ...

       This will upgrade packages, but only if an  earlier  version  currently
       exists.  The  PACKAGE_FILE  may  be specified as an ftp or http URL, in
       which case the package will be downloaded before being  installed.  See
       FTP/HTTP  OPTIONS for information on rpm’s internal ftp and http client
       support.

[tardis_junkie]

I just tried using 'rpm -F' and it reports that that version is allready installed.

So as far as I know --force is the only way.

To those who do not wish to force just ignore this thread.

Regards.

[tardis_junkie]

Hi,

New url for updated graveman

http://www.tardis.dyndns.tv/sox/grav...2.4-2.i386.rpm

Regards

[cybrjackle]

Just use yum to remove them first, and then "yum localinstall /path/to/rpms"