VLC for FC4 ok for FC5?

Kwan Lowe kwan at digitalhermit.com
Fri Oct 6 14:56:41 UTC 2006


> According to VLC download page for fedora
> http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-fedora.html
> they have packages for FC4.
>
> I am using FC5
> is it ok to install the packages for FC4 in my FC5?
> I am very willing to try this in my FC5 but don't want to blow up the
> things just because of that.
>
> Does someone have experience installing in FC5 machine without major
> problem? If so I need some guide.

Unless there's a specific reason you want the FC4 version, go to freshrpms.net and
pull down the packages from there (i.e., add their yum repository to your
/etc/yum.repos.d/ directory and yum install the videolan-client package).

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