On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 15:23:03 +0200, Gábor Iglói wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm trying to get familiar with rpm package management. I'd like to > set up mplayer under FC4. I've found the mplayer package on the > freshrpms home page but I can't install it - because it has > dependencies. As I used only apt before I don't know how to do this > under Fedora. Plz anybody can tell me how should I set up mplayer? > > Regards, > Gábor Fedora comes with two "super" package managers: apt and yum. They both run on top of rpm (i.e. call rpm to install something), but in addition, they solve dependencies. I have the impression that more people prefer yum to apt. With yum you would do: yum install mplayer Now mplayer is not in fedora core nor extras, due licencing, but it is in the livna repository (livna.org). By default yum does not search the livna repository. To make it look there, create a file /etc/yum.repos.d/livna.repo with the following contents: [livna] name=Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages baseurl=http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/RPMS.lvn enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=http://rpm.livna.org/RPM-LIVNA-GPG-KEY Then it will bring mplayer and all its dependencies. Of course, if you prefer apt, you can do first yum install apt then use apt as you did before.
