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From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Amazon Streaming broken, need hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:17:16
Message-Id: CAK2H+ecvrdkiD_z7pBwfC3=aiOJUsDCuDJREMO+Mq87iTZejZQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Amazon Streaming broken, need hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2 by Grant
1 On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 11:09 PM, Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > Amazon Streaming is broken and installing hal fixes it according to
3 > the following thread:
4 >
5 > http://www.amazon.com/forum/amazon%20video%20on%20demand?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx3EQAX98ED5WQ3&cdPage=1&cdSort=newest&cdThread=TxFTGOK5LRL3JM
6 >
7 > I added the layman overlays multilib and kde-sunset in order to
8 > install hal, but the emerge fails because it can't download
9 > hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2.  The following thread provides a
10 > few links to this file but they no longer work, and I tried
11 > downloading hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-4.tar.bz2, extracting, adding
12 > the missing file as indicated, and recreating the bz2 tar archive, but
13 > there is a checksum failure with that file:
14 >
15 > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-906838-start-0.html
16 >
17 > Does anyone have advice for navigating this?
18 >
19 > - Grant
20 >
21
22 What exactly is broken about it? I run a mostly stable machines here.
23 I am streaming an episode of Lost (which is free for Amazon Prime
24 members) in Firefox 9.0 as I write and it's working perfectly for me.
25
26 Or is this about the for pay stuff, or something else?
27
28 How is it broken?
29
30 - Mark

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