VLC on F7?

[Karl Larsen]

Nigel Henry wrote:
> On Sunday 01 July 2007 13:18, Karl Larsen wrote:
>   
>> Erich Zigler wrote:
>>     
>>> On Saturday 30 June 2007 20:08:19 Karl Larsen wrote:
>>>       
>>>>     I wanted to get VLC on this new F7 I have updated and got working
>>>> very well. But on FC6 all I did was yum install vlc and it worked fine.
>>>> But on F7 it gave up nothing to do. Is there a way to get it to look for
>>>> it as if it is FC^?
>>>>         
>>> To install VLC you will need to configure an additional yum repository
>>> such as:
>>>
>>> http://rpm.livna.org/
>>>
>>> or
>>>
>>> http://freshrpms.net/
>>>
>>> - Erich
>>>
>>> Thanks Erich, but I have no idea how to configure additional repository.
>>> I will try man yum.
>>>       
>> Karl
>>     
>
> And if you want packages from Freshrpms.
>
> Go to:  http://moonshine.freshrpms.net
>
> Next, click on "apt, yum, and others" (just below the logo)
>
> There's no entry for F7, but click on the Fedora Core 6 one, as the layout of 
> the URL's in /etc/yum.repos.d is such that your version of Fedora is checked 
> in /etc/fedora-release, then the correct repo is accessed for your Fedora 
> version.
>
> Ok. Having clicked on Fedora Core 6. On the next page click on the 
> "freshrpms-release-1.1-1.fc.noarch.rpm" line.  If you're using Firefox a box 
> will open asking what to do with the download. Click on install it. You'll be 
> asked for your root password, then the package installer will open. Ok it and 
> the package will be installed.
>
> Look in /etc/yum.repos.d, and you will have a new file for freshrpms. open it, 
> and it should look like this.
>
> # $Id: freshrpms.repo 3341 2005-06-28 18:40:26Z thias $
> [freshrpms]
> name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Freshrpms
> #baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/freshrpms/
> mirrorlist=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/mirrors-freshrpms
> enabled=1
> gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-freshrpms
> gpgcheck=1
>
> Ok. Close the editor, and firefox. Open a terminal, su to root, and do a yum 
> install vlc . This will pull in a bunch of dependencies, (about 11).  Also do 
> a yum install livdvdcss  if you need to play DVD's that need to be decrypted 
> so as to play them.
>
>   
    Hi Nigel I do need livdvdcss but when I try to do so yum fools 
around and says nothing to do. Could the name be wrong?

Karl


> Happy viewing.
>
> Nigel.
>
> btw. Keep in mind that some 3rd party repos don't always work well with one 
> another, and it might be best not to have both Livna, and Freshrpms enabled.
>
>