Re: VLC on F7?

Nigel Henry wrote:

On Sunday 01 July 2007 13:18, Karl Larsen wrote:

Erich Zigler wrote:

On Saturday 30 June 2007 20:08:19 Karl Larsen wrote:

    I wanted to get VLC on this new F7 I have updated and got working
very well. But on FC6 all I did was yum install vlc and it worked fine.
But on F7 it gave up nothing to do. Is there a way to get it to look for
it as if it is FC^?

To install VLC you will need to configure an additional yum repository
such as:

http://rpm.livna.org/

or

http://freshrpms.net/

- Erich

Thanks Erich, but I have no idea how to configure additional repository.
I will try man yum.

Karl

And if you want packages from Freshrpms.

Go to:  http://moonshine.freshrpms.net

Next, click on "apt, yum, and others" (just below the logo)

There's no entry for F7, but click on the Fedora Core 6 one, as the layout of the URL's in /etc/yum.repos.d is such that your version of Fedora is checked in /etc/fedora-release, then the correct repo is accessed for your Fedora version.

Ok. Having clicked on Fedora Core 6. On the next page click on the "freshrpms-release-1.1-1.fc.noarch.rpm" line. If you're using Firefox a box will open asking what to do with the download. Click on install it. You'll be asked for your root password, then the package installer will open. Ok it and the package will be installed.

Look in /etc/yum.repos.d, and you will have a new file for freshrpms. open it, and it should look like this.

# $Id: freshrpms.repo 3341 2005-06-28 18:40:26Z thias $
[freshrpms]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Freshrpms
#baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/freshrpms/
mirrorlist=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/mirrors-freshrpms
enabled=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-freshrpms
gpgcheck=1

Ok. Close the editor, and firefox. Open a terminal, su to root, and do a yum install vlc . This will pull in a bunch of dependencies, (about 11). Also do a yum install livdvdcss if you need to play DVD's that need to be decrypted so as to play them.

Karl

Happy viewing.

Nigel.

btw. Keep in mind that some 3rd party repos don't always work well with one another, and it might be best not to have both Livna, and Freshrpms enabled.