[CentOS] how do I make my headset work

Fri Jun 5 18:29:41 UTC 2015
Michael Hennebry <hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu>

On Fri, 5 Jun 2015, John R Pierce wrote:

> On 6/5/2015 10:44 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
>> Shortly after installing, I got a pop-up
>> notice that security updates wre available.
>> On doing yum update, I got error messages:
>> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
>> Error: Package: vlc-1.1.13-1.el6.rf.x86_64 (@rpmforge)
>>            Requires: libthreadutil.so.2()(64bit)
>>            Removing: libupnp-1.6.6-1.el6.rf.x86_64 (@rpmforge)
>>                libthreadutil.so.2()(64bit)
>>            Updated By: libupnp-1.6.18-2.el6.x86_64 (epel)
>>                Not found 
>
>
> ahhh, mixing rpmforge and epel is hazardous, and ideally you use the rpm 
> priorities thing and install from epel by preference, only using rpmforge for 
> stuff thats not in epel.         rpmforge (now repoforge) has fallen pretty 
> far behind on things, so I avoid using it entirely if I can.

I had epel last.

I have 36 packages installed from rpmforge
and suspect that it is not easy to change.

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