On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 11:48:22AM -0700, Florin Andrei wrote: > From: Florin Andrei <florin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 11:48:22 -0700 > Subject: Re: DVD on Fedora > Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > > On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 11:27, David Mamanakis wrote: > > > What I need is a simple DVD player...simple to install, and will play any DVD > > I put in the machine... > > Or > > Give me detailed instructions, a web site with detailed instructions, and let > > me have at it... > > Add this to /etc/yum.conf: > > [freshrpms] > name=Fedora Linux $releasever - $basearch - freshrpms > baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/freshrpms > > Then run: > > yum install xine Or perhaps do this. cd /etc cp yum.conf yum.conf.freshrpms vi yum.conf.freshrpms Add the above freshrpms site info to this new config file. Then run: yum -c /etc/yum.conf.freshrpms xine The advantage is that in the future there is more clarity with regard to base fedora which is rich in tools already and the other excellent distribution collections that we know and love that are rich in goodness knows what. By keeping clarity on the the base, with basic yum (/etc/yum.conf) and up2date (/etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources) config files some system administration tasks become simpler to understand. For example with no config file changes up2date --show-orphans will list packages that are not standard Fedora-N. This then lets you selectively watch for and update the special packages from other distribution collections as needed. I have seen just enough postings by confused new-users that grab this that and anything 'interesting' only to find that some conflict keeps them from installing an important update. In part this all depends on how good your personal memory and system notebook are. Mostly this is VERY important when deciding to update the base OS. FC3 is not far .... I happen to have three /etc/yum.conf files and just noticed a /etc/yum.conf.rpmnew that tells me I might need to tidy something up. Off to tidy... YMMV. Have fun. Tom -- T o m M i t c h e l l Me, I would "Rather" Not.
