Jon Savage wrote:
On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 18:08:41 -0500, Christopher J. Bottaro
<cjbottaro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello,<snip>
As of now, I use the yum.conf from fedorafaq.org. I commented out the
following:
How do I know which repos conflict with other repos? Which repos do people generally use? Why is this so complicated?
I did 'yum install mplayer-skins' and now i have the following installed: mplayer-skins-1.3-0.lvn.2.2 mplayer-0.92.1-0.lvn.5.2 mplayer-gui-0.92.1-0.lvn.5.2 Well thats all fine and dandy, but no win32codecs are installed. I can't play QuickTime movies.
So what do I do? Comment out the livna repos and add some others (which??). Then when I'm done installing the codecs, recomment them out and re-add the livna repos? There has got to be a better way, I might as well compile from source...its actually less of a hassle.
Thanks for the help.
Some of the 3rd party repos don't play well with others. Dag, Freshrpms et. al. don't conflict with each other for the most part but they sometimes conflict with Fedora-extras /Livna they don't often conflict with core that I know of.
I've been happy using core, extras & livna. Another option would be to follow the excellent fedora multimedia FAQ at: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Fedora-Multimedia-Installation-HOWTO/.
Compiling from source is a viable option for some items as well, depends on what you want to install & also on how much time you have on your hands. Bests
Jon
I personally have not yet encountered a problem with all the repos in use, but who knows. Give it a try!
Austin
