Chris McD wrote: > Chuck_Sterling wrote: >> <FWIW> >> Last night I successfully installed mplayer on FC2, and want to post >> the list of rpms I installed to support this. Someone else might find >> the info useful. Most of the list was found on the Internet via a >> google search. I'm not sure that all were needed, but installed them >> all anyway. One rpm I needed was not listed there but was called out >> during the installation as a dependency. All were downloaded from >> freshrpms.org. >> >> Kernel info: >> [chuck@aviary mplayer]$ uname -a >> Linux aviary 2.6.6-1.435.2.1 #1 Wed Jun 30 15:29:30 EDT 2004 i686 >> i686 i386 GNU/Linux >> >> [chuck@aviary mplayer]$ ls >> aalib-1.4.0-5.1.fc2.fr.i386.rpm >> faad2-2.0-1.1.fc2.fr.i386.rpm >> lame-3.96-1.1.fc2.fr.i386.rpm >> libdvdcss-1.2.8-4.1.fc2.fr.i386.rpm >> libdvdplay-1.0.1-4.1.fc2.fr.i386.rpm >> libdvdread-0.9.4-5.1.fc2.fr.i386.rpm >> libfame-0.9.1-1.1.fc2.fr.i386.rpm >> libmad-0.15.1b-2.1.fc2.fr.i386.rpm >> libpostproc-1.0-0.10.pre4.1.fc2.fr.i386.rpm (not in original list) >> lirc-0.6.6-2.1.fc2.fr.i386.rpm >> lzo-1.08-3.1.fc2.fr.i386.rpm >> mplayer-1.0-0.10.pre4.1.fc2.fr.i386.rpm >> mplayer-fonts-1.1-2.fr.noarch.rpm >> mplayer-skins-1.4-1.fr.noarch.rpm >> xvidcore-1.0.1-1.1.fc2.fr.i386.rpm >> >> Since I did not know what order of installation was needed, I just >> used a baby script to install whatever would, then run it again and >> again until all the dependencies were finally met. Took about four >> passes, plus one more when finally I downloaded libpostproc. >> >> example of script... >> # for FILE in `ls -1 *.rpm` >> >>>do >>>echo $FILE >>>rpm -i $FILE >>>done >> >> . . . >> # >> >> </FWIW> >> Chuck Sterling >> >> >> > erm haven't you ever heard of yum? Yes but did not know how to get it working right. Thanks for the info. I'll enjoy a bit more automation next time, I think. > > how about: > > add this to your /etc/yum.conf: > > [livna-stable] > name=Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (stable) > baseurl= http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/yum/stable > gpgcheck=1 > > then: > # yum install mplayer > > > > ... and bingo you have mplayer installed. > > > Chris > > Thanks again, Chuck
