Re: FEDORA 4 - No sofware in YUM and no repositories for APT;

[Robin Laing <Robin.Laing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Robin Laing wrote:
>
> > Serge wrote:
> >
> > > Mirco Scaramucci wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hello everybody.
> > > > Finally FEDORA 4. Great.
> > > > I have been trying to download software such as Timidity, Mplayer and
> > > > other via YUM trying to enable usual repositories but to no avail.
> > > > There doesn't seem to be any repos in the yum.conf file.
> > > > I then tried to add repositories to apt-get using MIRROR-SELECT  and 
> > > > got
> > > > am error message.
> > > >
> > > > Is there anyway I can enable these like in FEDORA 3?
> > > >
> > > > Mirco
> > > you can enable freshrpms by installing 
> > > http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/4/i386/RPMS.freshrpms/freshrpms-release-1-1.fc.noarch.rpm 
> > >
> > >
> > > Then just use yum.
> > >
> > > They have mplayer
> > >
> > > Serge
> >
> > I like this.  An rpm to install repositories.  I will be glad when I 
> > get the time to upgrade/install FC4.
> This yum directory (/etc/yum.repos.d) for drop in repositories  is 
> available in FC3 too.  Check this out
> http://fedora.ivazquez.net/content/view/14/30/
>
> regards
> Rahul

Yea it may be but I am still plodding along with FC1.  Never had the 
time to upgrade/install FCx.  Something always became a higher 
priority.  I am archiving my data on my work computer now but I have 
to wait until some work is completed before the upgrade.

--
Robin Laing