mplayer install

Robin Laing Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Wed May 24 20:18:51 UTC 2006


Karl Larsen wrote:
> 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
> 

For FC4.

http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_4_installation_notes.html


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Robin Laing




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