FEDORA 4 - No sofware in YUM and no repositories for APT;

[Robin Laing]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Robin Laing wrote:
> 
>> Serge wrote:
>>
>>> Mirco Scaramucci wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello everybody.
>>>> Finally FEDORA 4. Great.
>>>> I have been trying to download software such as Timidity, Mplayer and
>>>> other via YUM trying to enable usual repositories but to no avail.
>>>> There doesn't seem to be any repos in the yum.conf file.
>>>> I then tried to add repositories to apt-get using MIRROR-SELECT  and 
>>>> got
>>>> am error message.
>>>>
>>>> Is there anyway I can enable these like in FEDORA 3?
>>>>
>>>> Mirco
>>>>
>>>>
>>> you can enable freshrpms by installing 
>>> http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/4/i386/RPMS.freshrpms/freshrpms-release-1-1.fc.noarch.rpm 
>>>
>>>
>>> Then just use yum.
>>>
>>> They have mplayer
>>>
>>> Serge
>>>
>>
>> I like this.  An rpm to install repositories.  I will be glad when I 
>> get the time to upgrade/install FC4.
>>
> This yum directory (/etc/yum.repos.d) for drop in repositories  is 
> available in FC3 too.  Check this out
> http://fedora.ivazquez.net/content/view/14/30/
> 
> regards
> Rahul
> 
> 

Yea it may be but I am still plodding along with FC1.  Never had the 
time to upgrade/install FCx.  Something always became a higher 
priority.  I am archiving my data on my work computer now but I have 
to wait until some work is completed before the upgrade.

-- 
Robin Laing