[Sugar-devel] Installing gstreamer media codecs on XO-1

[David Leeming]

Martin, 

My current procedure with Internet connection is as follows

yum localinstall --nogpgcheck rpmfusion-free-stable.rpm 
yum localinstall --nogpgcheck rpmfusion-nonfree-stable.rpm
yum install -y gstreamer-plugins-ugly
yum install -y gstreamer-ffmpeg

Each of the stages above (even the localinstalls) require Internet access to
download stuff.

To do as you suggest, how would I now use yumdownloader? Sorry I am a little
slow in the up[take on this :(

David 


-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Langhoff [mailto:martin.langhoff at gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, 3 April 2012 1:03 p.m.
To: David Leeming
Cc: Kevin Mark; Sugar devel
Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] Installing gstreamer media codecs on XO-1

On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 6:51 AM, David Leeming
<david at leeming-consulting.com> wrote:
> I am interested in trying this out, as I am going to be doing some teacher
> training workshops in remote PNG areas where there is no Internet access.

the quickest, surest path is use yumdownloader --resolve to grab all
the rpms, and have them on a USB stick. Steps were discussed on this
same email threads. I can't think of an easier path for a small to
moderate number of units.

You could build an OS image, set it up on the XS for auto-installation
on the XOs, and run olpc-update. But there's a sizable amount of prep
in that, so unless you prepped it all back when you prepped the OS
image they have _now_, you end up still needing to mess with each
laptop.

In the end, you only need to say "sudo rpm -Uvh *rpm" on each unit.

cheers,



m
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