On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 23:49 +1030, Tim wrote: > On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 11:38 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > > why does someone need to use more than one repo to install vlc? > > I can imagine it being more complex than just that. > > e.g. Someone sets up Livna, to install mplayer. Then they want to > install something that can only be found from another repo, so they set > that up. Later on, they want to install vlc and just do yum install > vlc, and all hell breaks loose. Been there, done that, got the T-shirt. I've pretty much settled on Freshrpms as when I installed Xine from there, it worked. I had to hunt down and kill off all my livna supplied rpms first though. Xine was stuttering like a red-squirrel on me during video playback. The install from Freshrpms works flawlessly for me. >From all that I'm reading, I'm sticking with FC7 a while longer. :) Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net <---down4now too ================================================
