[K12OSN] Retrieve DVD Player via Yum

Steve Wright paua at quicksilver.net.nz
Tue Mar 2 20:36:06 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 14:25, Jim Kronebusch wrote:
> I hate when I find the answer myself minutes after posting to the
> list.
>  
> I just found on FreshRPMS a sample yum.conf and pulled the servers
> from their list and added it to mine and viola, it worked.  That sure
> made a tough project easy, I ran "yum install xine" and it was running
> in about 5 minutes.  Cool
>  
> Is there a reason that the LTSP default servers don't have as robust a
> library for apps as some others? It sure would have been handy if no
> config mods were necessary, but now I know how to solve it.


  which yum.conf did you use ?  A URL?

  I used atrpms apt-get sources list to build a 
Television/Multimedia/MythTV box from K12LTSP 4.0 and it works ok'ish,
but it was fairly invasive.

  OT - BTW MythTV and/or TVTime is awesome, especially on my 21"
Trinitron monitor.


/steve






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