RPM newbie: howto install mplayer under fc4?
Scott Talbot
talbotscott at cox.net
Thu Jul 14 01:18:46 UTC 2005
Amadeus W. M. wrote:
>On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 15:50:29 +0200, Gábor Iglói wrote:
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>>>With yum you would do:
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>>>yum install mplayer
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>>Thx, this works. And is there a way to browse available packages for
>>Fedora? As I see I need to know about some unofficial repos like livna
>>if I'd like to yum up all of my favourite Linux softwares... (Skype,
>>RealPlayer, mplayerplug-in, streamtuner, LimeWire).
>>
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>Yes, there's a way:
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>yum list
>yum list package
>yum list | grep package
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>If you want to see info about a package
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>yum info package
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>This last one is the equivalent of
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>apt-cache show package
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>Everybody wants those packages, but they can't be released under fedora,
>because of licensing. I'd be surprised if other distributions offered them.
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If you'd like a nice gui, try
yum install yumex
it is in the extras directory, if you need to --enablerepo. There'll be
an icon in the system tools menu, has separate tabs for updating
existing packages installing, removing packages, changing repos etc.
Scott
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