On Sunday 01 July 2007 17:50, Karl Larsen wrote: > 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/$basearch/fres > >hrpms/ > > mirrorlist=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/mirrors-fres > >hrpms 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. > > Hi Nigel I do need livdvdcss but when I try to do so yum fools > around and says nothing to do. Could the name be wrong? > > Karl Hi Karl. At the freshrpms repo it's named libdvdcss, but on a Debian repo it's named libdvdcss2. I havn't looked on the Livna repo, but perhaps it's named libdvdcss2 there too. Or open Yumex, and have a look to see how it's named. I don't use Yum, but Apt, and often use synaptic, Apts GUI, to look for packages, when I'm not sure how they're named. Nigel.
