At 11:37 03/29/2005 -0800, Lan Barnes wrote: >On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 11:09:59AM -0800, Gus Wirth wrote: >> >> Conclusion: VLC is broken for Fedora Core 3. If anyone has gotten this to >> work I'd like to know how. >> >> Recommendation: use xine. I did the install from freshrpms using yum and it >> worked the first time. > >I can understand simple sentences like those ;-) > >Must ... learn ... yum ...
That's easy. First install yum off your original Fedora media, or you can download it as a package from the Redhat/Fedora site <http://fedora.redhat.com>. The Fedora yum package already contains the repository information to do updates of the core install. $ rpm -ivh yum-2.1.11-3.noarch.rpm Once yum is installed, you can use it to update itself, like so: $ sudo yum update yum Once that works, you need to add freshrpms to the repository. The website has an rpm for adding the repository. Or you can do a cut and paste on this: /etc/yum.repos.d/freshrpms.repo <----------begin----------> [freshrpms] name=Fedora Linux $releasever - $basearch - freshrpms baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/freshrpms gpgcheck=1 <----------end-------------> Then to install xine do: $ sudo yum install xine And that's it! yum will identify the most current package, figure out the dependencies, see if it needs to download those, asks if you want to download and install, puts everything in a transaction, does the install and if successful, does a commit. This is a good example of an application that uses the transaction capabilities of RPM. A lot of people don't even know that RPM can do transactions. WARNING: If you use dialup (i.e don't have a high bandwidth connection) using yum or any automated update manager could tie you up for HOURS downloading parts and pieces to keep you up to date or install packages. videolan-client and xine have a lot of dependencies and pull in a lot of stuff. I cheated by using my laptop at the library to grab most of the stuff and then shared the cache with my desktop when I got home. Your tax dollars at work :) Gus -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
