Chuck_Sterling wrote: >Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > > >>On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 16:25, 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. >>> >>> >>Hmm.. seems like you were not introduced to the wonders of apt. >> >>Its just a simple >> >>apt-get install mplayer >> >> >> >Much simpler. I could not get it to work, and also had trouble using >yum. What I did was a kludge, but did the trick. Next time I will try >to use one of the automatic methods. Thanks for the feedback. >Chuck > > > > I have for some time tried to install mplayer but all I get is the following, so I'm actually starting to doubt that there is an mplayer out there for FC2. [root@localhost truls]# apt-get install mplayer Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Couldn't find package mplayer [root@localhost truls]# Truls sounds like you don't have the right repositories listed in your /etc/apt/sources.list. Try adding livna, which carries packages Fedora keep out of the main distro. the lines to add are: rpm http://rpm.livna.org/ fedora/2/i386 stable unstable testing rpm-src http://rpm.livna.org/ fedora/2/i386 stable unstable testing
