Problem playing DVD's

[James Wilkinson]

clint at penguinsolutions.org recommended:
> # yum install libdvd* libmad* totem*

Bill Tetens replied:
> I tried another Yum update and it told me that those three items were 
> not available so I assure they are installed.

No, not available means not available.

If a package doesn't exist in any repositories yum knows about, you get
something like this:
[root at howells root]# yum install a-non-existant-package
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base
Server: Fedora Extras
Server: Fedora Extras (non-US)
Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Released Updates
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
Cannot find a package matching a-non-existant-package
No actions to take

If it's installed, you get something like this:
[root at howells root]# yum install glibc
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base
Server: Fedora Extras
Server: Fedora Extras (non-US)
Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Released Updates
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
glibc is installed and is the latest version.
No actions to take

Make sure that you have suitable repositories in your /etc/yum.conf
file: at least fedora.us and rpm.livna.org.

Look at http://fedorafaq.org/#FedoraYumRepos for more details, or ask
here.

HTH,

James.

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