mplayer install

[Karl Larsen]

Steven Stern wrote:
> Stanton Finley wrote:
>   
>> On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 18:04 -0400, Dean Maluski wrote:
>>     
>>> I've been struggling finding all the packages I need for an mplayer
>>> install. I think I've gotten most from fresh-meat.
>>> I was doing a search and found someone claiming it's as simple as.
>>> yum install mplayer-skins mplayer-fonts mplayer.
>>> Well, that doeesn't work.
>>> Now I'm stuck looking for aalib package.
>>> Any guidance appreciated!
>>> I'm running FC4
>>>
>>>       
>> Fedora is a yum package manager based distribution. Yum will solve all
>> dependency issues and automatically download those dependencies as long
>> as you have the proper repositories configured and enabled. Then it is
>> just a matter of issuing the command "yum install mplayer. See
>> http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_5_installation_notes.html for
>> instructions.
>>     
>
> Stanton, I want to send a BIG and public thank you for your web page.
> It's been a tremendous help to me.
>
> (Every time I visit the page, I click on all of the Google ads.)
>
>   
[root at k5di ~]# yum -y install mplayer mplayer-skins mplayer-fonts
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
updates-released          100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Parsing package install arguments
No Match for argument: mplayer
No Match for argument: mplayer-skins
No Match for argument: mplayer-fonts
Nothing to do

    This what the instructions on the web page says to do on FC5. It 
doesn't work on FC4.


Karl