Installing software from RPMs

[Mike Ramirez]

Hi  Here is a copy of my /etc/yum.conf  once you have add these entries
to your yum.conf run yum check-update (takes about an hour to update all
the headers if you haven't ran that yet) then run yum install
$packageName I have installed xine and mplayer with all the neccessary
libs for mp3 and dvd playback.
you will need to goto livna.org an import the gpg key for livna to work
and also may want to change the titles in [] to be unique in your
yum.conf

[core]
name=Fedora Linux $releasever - $basearch - core
baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/core
[core alt]
name=Secsup.org $releasever - $basearch - core 
baseurl=http://redhat.secsup.org/fedora/core/2/i386/os/

[updates]
name=Fedora Linux $releasever - $basearch - updates
baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/updates

[update alt]
name=Secsup.org $releasever - $basearch - core
baseurl=http://redhat.secsup.org/fedora/core/updates/2/i386/

[freshrpms]
name=Fedora Linux $releasever - $basearch - freshrpms
baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/freshrpms

[livna-stable]
name=Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (stable)
baseurl=http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/yum/stable
gpgcheck=1

[fedora-us-2-stable]
name=Fedora Linux (stable) for Fedora Core 2 -- Fedora US mirror
baseurl=http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/2/i386/RPMS.stable

[newrpms.sunsite.dk]
name=Fedora Core 2 NewRPMS.sunsite.dk
baseurl=http://newrpms.sunsite.dk/apt/redhat/en/i386/fc2

[dag]
name=Dag RPM Repository for Fedora Core 2
baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/fedora/$releasever/en/$basearch/dag

[dries]
name=Extra Fedora rpms dries - $releasever - $basearch
baseurl=http://dries.studentenweb.org/yum/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/dries

[ATrpms]
name=ATrpms for Fedora Core $releasever stable
baseurl=http://apt.physik.fu-berlin.de/fedora/$releasever/en/$basearch/at-stable


On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 00:13, A. Lanza wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> i'm beginning to install some new software in my FC2 linux system. Now
> i'm looking for some multimedia players, i've found out that there are
> some of them, like xine or mplayer.
> 
> Since they're not included in the distribution CDs, i went for them to
> freshrpms.net. I found them there and downloaded them, but when i try to
> install them with rpm command i get a lot of messages telling that these
> files have dependencies.
> 
> I've intended to use yum, because i know that this tools is able to
> check dependencies and install them before the main package, but i had
> no luck trying 'yum install xine', because it tells that xine is not in
> its database.
> 
> Is there any simple way to install these software and all its
> dependencies? Is there any way to update the yum database? What about
> apt? Better than yum?
> 
> TIA,
> 
> AL
>