mplayer installation failure

[Paul Howarth]

Pushparaj Shetty wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to install mplayer on  my FC5. After downloading the codecs and
> following instruction from stanton-finley
> i gave the following command
> # yum -y install mplayer mplayer-skins mplayer-fonts
> This generated the following error.
> --------------------------------------
> [root at macs_20_252 ~]# yum -y install mplayer mplayer-skins mplayer-fonts
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ?
>    yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
>  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 80, in main
>    base.getOptionsConfig(args)
>  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 177, in getOptionsConfig
>    self.doConfigSetup(fn=opts.conffile, root=root)
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 104, in
> doConfigSetup
>    self.getReposFromConfig()
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 135, in
> getReposFromConfig
>    parser.read(files)
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/parser.py", line 225, in read
>    IncludingConfigParser.read(self,filename)
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/parser.py", line 126, in read
>    ConfigParser.read(self,filename)
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/ConfigParser.py", line 267, in read
>    self._read(fp, filename)
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/ConfigParser.py", line 462, in _read
>    raise MissingSectionHeaderError(fpname, lineno, line)
> ConfigParser.MissingSectionHeaderError: File contains no section headers.
> file: ///etc/yum.repos.d/macromedia.repo, line: 1
> 'macromedia]\n'
> ------------------------------------------------
> Kindly help me to solve the problem
> 

Your /etc/yum.repos.d/macromedia.repo appears to be empty.

Paul.