mplayer faq

[niranjan_mcarenyold]

hi folks,

i ma using fedora core. i want to install mplayer with gui. i got those rpms required for mplayer and language packs. but while installing it is throwing some dependancies are missing.

can anybody tell me what are the dependencies for mplayer and where can i find those libraires.

please answer my fq

[pradeep_chauhan]

dounload latest yum.conf and then use the yum package manager to install
#yum install mplayer

[harmax]

this is what happened

[root@localhost ~]# yum install Mplayer
Setting up Install Process
Setting up Repo:  base
repomd.xml                100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
Setting up Repo:  updates-released
repomd.xml                100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
base      : ################################################## 2622/2622
updates-re: ################################################## 845/845
No Match for argument Mplayer
Nothing to do
[root@localhost ~]#

same for

yum install mplayer

though it perfectly updated my firefox to 1.0.4

yum install firefox

[niranjan_mcarenyold]

hi

what is that yum.conf and where can i find that. will you give me a link.

[harmax]

Originally Posted by niranjan_mcarenyold

hi

what is that yum.conf and where can i find that. will you give me a link.

yum.conf basically contains the links to the various repositories that contain the the software (and its dependencies) uve requested to be installed using

yum install <software_name>

it is stored in ur computer -- /etc/yum.conf ( a simple text file )

STEPS TO UPDATE /etc/yum.conf

delete the current contents of /etc/yum.conf

and heres the link to update ur yum.conf file

http://www.fedorafaq.org/samples/yum.conf

and copy all of the text on that screen to ur /etc/yum.conf and save it

to update yum just

yum install yum

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LINKS TO LATEST yum.conf will be highly appreciated

[firewall]

install yum from http://ayo.freshrpms.net/. This will have the latest yum repository links of freshrpms itself.

This will let you d.l from freshrpms and i think serves thre purpose.