On Sun, 2013-11-24 at 16:56 +1100, Allan Duncan wrote:
On 24/11/13 09:15, Andrew Greig wrote:
Hi All,
I am struggling to correctly define a search for a tool to help me list the software in my two machines, desktop and notebook, both running SUSE 12.3. As a consequence Google has been of no help.
My two computers have different video handling set ups. desktop needs VLC to handle flash and avi files - nothing else works, whereas my notebook needs GnomeMPlayer only for the same tasks (VLC is useless) both machines are 64bit.
It sounds like a mime-types issue. Try rummaging around with gst-typefind, gvfs-mime, xdg-mime and friends.
Also look at what is in the Desktop files for vlc and mplayer.
Hi Allan, Thanks for the reply, I found a way to create the list of software for each machine using rpm -qa and then piped to a log file. I now have each log file copied into a spreadsheet side by side Column A and Column B (text in B is red), I appended Bito column A and then sorted the whole column. I can now visually detect where the extra files are, but there are 2100 of them, but the column is now 4000 cells deep. Is there any way in a spreadsheet to read the column and remove both instances of identical files leaving only the "orphans" which I can again sort physically into their respective colours? Once I get the machines consistent then I can run the upgrade. Hopefully Andrew Greig