YDL 6.0 Internet issues

[vsute]

Hey guys I am new to all of this and have been pulling my hair out for the last two weeks trying to get this to work .

I have installed ydl 6 on the ps3 , without issues.
All i want to do is run emulators on the ps3 so I can play favourite old skool games on the big tv and hopfully be able to use the sixaxis controller too.

I have searched and read MANY of pages but none seem to relate to my issue.

I have gone through the network config to set up a wireless connection . After typing in the address' manually I get a acvite connection. But i cant use firefox broser , or the achive manager.
Every time I open the achive manager it tells me it wont run , "this may be due to not having a network connection"
What have i missed .

The connection is acvtive why cant I use fire fox or achive manager or even install the emulators .???
Please HELP .

[vsute]

ALso if it has to do with a wireless thing I am able to hook the ps3 straight up to the net using a wired connection , i just have NO idea how to configure it.

ANY help would be great

[ppietro]

Hey guys I am new to all of this and have been pulling my hair out for the last two weeks trying to get this to work .

I have installed ydl 6 on the ps3 , without issues.
All i want to do is run emulators on the ps3 so I can play favourite old skool games on the big tv and hopfully be able to use the sixaxis controller too.

I have searched and read MANY of pages but none seem to relate to my issue.

I have gone through the network config to set up a wireless connection . After typing in the address' manually I get a acvite connection. But i cant use firefox broser , or the achive manager.
Every time I open the achive manager it tells me it wont run , "this may be due to not having a network connection"
What have i missed .

The connection is acvtive why cant I use fire fox or achive manager or even install the emulators .???
Please HELP .

That's all outlined in my post here:
viewtopic.php?t=3399

Remember this: On a DHCP enabled network, if you have to manually enter IP Address information to get Wireless to Activate, yet Internet access fails, 9 times out of 10, you have an error in your encryption settings. Setting IP Address information manually bypasses the initial encryption check. Your PS3 wireless will appear to be Activated, but it hasn't actually authenticated to the access point.

The rest of that post should help you get your Wireless access point connected.

Cheers,
Paul

[vsute]

Ok guys
so now i have got connected to the net . Thank you for your help .
My lil bro had set up the net as WPA so with his help from sth africa i change the router to wep and now is all good .

untill i try to install an emulator like snes9x or mupen64 ,installs all fine then gets to a point where it says " nothing to do" Of coarse there is somthing to do Open the emulator . ANY help for this would be greatly appreciated.

thanks

[vsute]

so when i open a terminal and type' yum install snes9x , in the folder that contains all the snes files i get .....
[root@ps3 snes9x-1.43]# yum install snes9x
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Loading "protectbase" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
384 packages excluded due to repository protections
Nothing to do


Any ideas
and its the same with every emulator i try to run .
this is such a hard system to operate, its doing my head in ... one brick wall after another. I am a newb

[billb]

so when i open a terminal and type' yum install snes9x , in the folder that contains all the snes files i get .....
[root@ps3 snes9x-1.43]# yum install snes9x
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Loading "protectbase" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
384 packages excluded due to repository protections
Nothing to do

That is yum's "friendly" way of telling you either A) it's already installed or B) it can't find the package.

I have much better version of the SNES emulator in my software repository ...

First I'd suggest reading this guide to get a general idea of how to install software on YDL:
viewtopic.php?f=19&t=2274

And use this guide to set up my repo:
http://pleasantfiction.ipower.com/bodeg ... 4352b711b2

And then use yum install snes9x-gtk to install snes9x-gtk. Once installed it will show up in your applications menu.

Also, it appears you don't have protect=1 in yellowdog-updates.repo because the number of packages excluded due to repository protections is too high (384).

[vsute]

thanks for all your help so far.

I downloaded snes 9x gtk like you suggested and i have been able to install it, and it works great .

I also updated everything to match the link you showed me. Although when i install snes9x gtk I had 399 packages excluded due to repository protections, but then snes9xgtk still installed which is great.

Whats the go with the 399 packages excluded due to repository protections???

Also do you know where i can download other emulators that will install as easy as this snes one did.
Im looking for a master system emulator , mega drive emulator and most of all a Nintendo 64 emulator.

Any help would be great

Thanks mate

Cheers Tim

[ppietro]

Whats the go with the 399 packages excluded due to repository protections???

YDL 6.0 is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (via the CentOS recompile.) Red Hat Enterprise Linux does not update its core libraries as often as Fedora. Generally, they update RHEL every 3 Fedora releases. This is to increase stability, as Fedora tends to be "cutting edge".

If you were to load all of the packages included in a Fedora installation, the sheer number of updates to the core libraries would probably make the RHEL installation unusable. We need to protect these core libraries to keep our system stable - especially if we're using an automated package install system like YUM.

We can tell YUM how to do this with protectbase. If you follow billb's instructions here:
viewtopic.php?t=3017
it details how to set it up. Once installed, new packages will install just fine, but core libraries will be protected.

Cheers,
Paul

[vsute]

Ok sweet i will give that a try in a bit . THanks for that.

also any ideas or links to good emulators that will run, a gameboy emulator would be kool aswell

thanks for the help

[vsute]

ok so i have set everything up as shown in the guide.

but now when i go to try to install mupen64 i get this msg

[root@ps3 mupen64-0.4]# yum install mupen64
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Loading "protectbase" plugin
Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running as pid 3576. Aborting.
[root@ps3 mupen64-0.4]#

?????? any ideas , and also when i went to install protect base which i think is already installed , i got a nothing to do msg and there were 582 repo protection things .

[vsute]

and then this aswell

[root@ps3 mg15linux]# yum install mg
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Loading "protectbase" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
241 packages excluded due to repository protections
Nothing to do
[root@ps3 mg15linux]#

[ppietro]

ok so i have set everything up as shown in the guide.

but now when i go to try to install mupen64 i get this msg

[root@ps3 mupen64-0.4]# yum install mupen64
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Loading "protectbase" plugin
Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running as pid 3576. Aborting.
[root@ps3 mupen64-0.4]#

Yes. Do this. Reboot. Then, try yum install mupen64 . If the error message appears again - login as root user - and type rm /var/run/yum.pid . Then it should work fine.

?????? any ideas , and also when i went to install protect base which i think is already installed , i got a nothing to do msg and there were 582 repo protection things .

You should have something like 116 packages excluded. Double check to make sure that protect=1 is set in the correct files, per viewtopic.php?t=3017

Each of your repo files should look exactly like the files listed in that post.

Cheers,
Paul

[vsute]

ok so i did the reboot like you said and tryed it again and this is what i got

[root@ps3 mupen64-0.5]# yum install mupen64
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Loading "protectbase" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
PS3Bodega 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
livna-stable 100% |=========================| 2.1 kB 00:00
base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
fedora-extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
updates 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
dribble 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
extras 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
241 packages excluded due to repository protections
Nothing to do

Each time a little closer , this is so frustrating

So then i tried putting in the rm line also like u said and i got this back


[root@ps3 ~]# rm /var/run/yum.pid
rm: cannot lstat `/var/run/yum.pid': No such file or directory
[root@ps3 ~]#


not sure what it going on now

[vsute]

and also got this while retrying the installing software guide

[root@ps3 ~]# yum install yum-protectbase
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Loading "protectbase" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
241 packages excluded due to repository protections
Nothing to do
[root@ps3 ~]#
[root@ps3 ~]# echo 'protect=1' >> /etc/yum.repos.d/yellowdog-base.repo
[root@ps3 ~]# echo 'protect=1' >> /etc/yum.repos.d/yellowdog-updates.repo

Thats the only problem i ran into while trying it yet when i check the repos like the guide says its all correct .

[ppietro]

Thats the only problem i ran into while trying it yet when i check the repos like the guide says its all correct .

Let's verify that please. Could you cut and paste the output of this command?

cat /etc/yum.repos.d/*

Cheers,
Paul