Wot no tags?

Jonathan Wiltshire jmw at debian.org
Wed Aug 31 05:35:02 EDT 2011


On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 10:24:12AM +0100, Arthur Dent wrote:
> On a related note, I thought that the quickest way to get get_iplayer
> and all its dependencies installed on my virgin Fedora 15 VM would be to
> do "yum install get_iplayer". That certainly worked, but I can't run it
> because I get the 
> 
> "ERROR: get_iplayer is not writeable - aborting update (maybe a package
> manager was used to install get_iplayer?)" 

Set the packagemanager variable in options. For example, in the Debian
package:

| jona at lupin:~$ cat /etc/get_iplayer/options
| # For Debian-based systems, inhibit automatic updates
| packagemanager apt
| 
| # Add site-wide configuration in this file

I think 'yum' is an accepted value.


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