camorri Posted October 22, 2009 Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 Mandriva 2009.1 has been working well since I installed it. Today I was trying to remove programs I'm not using to free disk space. Pulse Audio is on the top of my hit list. I marked it for removal in Install Remove Software, it came up with a long list of packages to remove. I clicked apply, the packages removed without error. Now MCC will not launch from either the icon, or from a command prompt. Properties of the icon are pointed at /usr/bin/mcc. There is no file there called mcc any more. I opened a konsole and tried 'urpmi mcc' and got # urpmi mcc To satisfy dependencies, the following packages are going to be installed: Package Version Release Arch (medium "Contrib") pmccabe 2.3 1mdv2007.0 i586 (medium "Contrib2") pmccabe 2.3 1mdv2007.0 i586 145KB of additional disk space will be used. 60KB of packages will be retrieved. Proceed with the installation of the 2 packages? (Y/n) I have no idea if this is the correct thing to install or not. My guess is no, but I don't know. I then tried 'urpmi pulse' and got # urpmi pulse No package named pulse The following packages contain pulse: alsa-plugins-pulse-config, audacious-pulse, fluxbox-pulseaudio, gstreamer0.10-pulse, ... You should use "-a" to use all of them I don't want to re-install pulse audio, how do I find out what package(s) are required to reinstall MCC ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted October 22, 2009 Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 Dependencies are packages required for installing the package of your choice, in this instance those extra packages are required by mcc. So the correct answer is to say yes and install them. You'll probably find that the package is pulseaudio or similar, you can do: urpmf --name pulse and it will list all available packages with pulse in the name. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K Bergen Posted October 22, 2009 Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 (edited) /usr/bin/mcc is in the package drakconf so urpmi drakconf I'm not sure how many other packages will be installed as dependencies. Ken Edited to correct typo. Edited October 22, 2009 by K Bergen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camorri Posted October 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 Well, I installed pmccabe, as you suggested. That is not MCC. Did a google, here is what pcmccabbe is... pmccabe calculates McCabe-style cyclomatic complexity for C and C++ source code. Per-function complexity may be used for spotting likely trouble spots and for estimating testing effort. MCC does not work anymore. What I need to find out is what packages do I need to install to get MCC functioning again. I do not want to re-install Pulse Audio. I will if there is no other way, but I don't want to wast the disk space for a sound server that doesn't work. I have never found a way to have Pulse Audio work with sound apps and system sounds. aRts does it, so I installed aRts... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tux99 Posted October 22, 2009 Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 Whenever packages get installed/uninstalled/upgraded it gets logged to /var/log/messages, just check what packages got uninstalled at the time/date when you did the uninstall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dude67 Posted October 23, 2009 Report Share Posted October 23, 2009 Did you install drakconf as Ken suggested? :unsure: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverSurfer60 Posted October 23, 2009 Report Share Posted October 23, 2009 You can always use rpm -i drakconf --nodeps to install drakconf without any dependencies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camorri Posted October 23, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 23, 2009 Than-you to all that answered my post. I did a urpmi drakconf MCC is back and working. Thank-you! I have since discovered much more than MCC got blown away. KDE is gonzo, Thunderbird and FIrefox also. I used to trust urpmi blindly, I will now have a close look for what will be removed. It appears I can fully recover, by re-installing the apps I want. So lets call this thread solved. Once again, Thank-you to those who have helped. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted October 23, 2009 Report Share Posted October 23, 2009 (edited) Ahhh... I do love Linux, but its sound servers are a pain. Arts was buggy as hell, gstreamer has loads of issues (mainly with streaming media), PulseAudio should be shot in the head right now, and Phonon is rather OK, but it's using gstreamer as main backend, which is a catastrophic combo. With xine backend it's working much better, but I'd rather use the new Mplayer, or VLC backend (both of them are buggy ATM). Maybe the real problem is not the sound server, but ALSA and its extremely poor API... but since OSS4 can't do some elementary things yet (e.g. utilize a MIDI I/O properly) I have no real choice... Edited October 23, 2009 by scarecrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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