can't install vlc via yum

[Paul Howarth]

James Pifer wrote:
>>You have to have the fedora core and extras repositories enabled
>>to supply dependencies for livna - it does not replace the
>>stock libraries.
> 
> 
> Installing videolan-client did work, but I'd like to figure out the
> problem. I don't have fedora-extras repo. I have the ones listed below.
> I've searched on google and everything says it's in FC4 by default.
> Don't know what happened to mine. Can you tell me where I can get the
> repos that are in FC4 by default? Maybe someone could email them to me
> off-list.
> 
> atrpms.repo
> base.repo
> freshrpms.repo
> livna.repo

livna requires extras and won't work without it. Extras is enabled by 
default in FC4 so you should have it. The fedora-extras.repo file is 
included in the fedora-release package, so you could try reinstalling that:

# rpm -Uvh --replacefiles --replacepkgs \
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/fedora-release-4-2.noarch.rpm

Paul.