On Saturday 27 October 2007 16:27:00 Jonathan Underwood wrote: > On 27/10/2007, Gene heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I finally removed the livna-release-7.1.rpm cuz it also crashed yumux. > > > > So how do I go about getting mplayer to install on an uptodate F7 lappy > > with a 64 bit turion running the i386 f7 install? > > > > We really would like to be able to read about these medications. > > Livna should work - the livna webpage currently has > > http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-7.rpm > > linked, although I notice my system must have updated to a newer > -release package because: > $ rpm -qa | grep livna > livna-release-7-2 That's the one I installed, and it totally wiped out smarts ability to manage its database, and when smart was killed by rebooting, and yumex tried, it also locked up yumex. > Anyway - go to http://rpm.livna.org/rlowiki/ and click on the "Fedora > 7 repository rpm" and install that. The install mplayer at the command > line with a > > yum install mplayer mplayer-gui > > You might also consider installing xine, an alternative DVD player with > > yum install xine xine-lib-extras xine-lib-extras-nonfree > > If you really don't want to use livana, and alternative is FreshRPMs > (http://freshrpms.net/) which also carries mplayer and xine. I would > not recommending using livna and freshrpms together though. I don't, freshrpms has generally worked quite well for me though. > HTH > Jonathan. -- Cheers. Gene "There are 4 boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order" -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
