VLC on F7?

[Karl Larsen]

Nigel Henry wrote:
> On Sunday 01 July 2007 17:50, Karl Larsen wrote:
>   
>> Nigel Henry wrote:
>>     
>>> On Sunday 01 July 2007 13:18, Karl Larsen wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Erich Zigler wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> On Saturday 30 June 2007 20:08:19 Karl Larsen wrote:
>>>>>           
>>>>>>     I wanted to get VLC on this new F7 I have updated and got working
>>>>>> very well. But on FC6 all I did was yum install vlc and it worked
>>>>>> fine. But on F7 it gave up nothing to do. Is there a way to get it to
>>>>>> look for it as if it is FC^?
>>>>>>             
>>>>> To install VLC you will need to configure an additional yum repository
>>>>> such as:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://rpm.livna.org/
>>>>>
>>>>> or
>>>>>
>>>>> http://freshrpms.net/
>>>>>
>>>>> - Erich
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks Erich, but I have no idea how to configure additional
>>>>> repository. I will try man yum.
>>>>>           
>>>> Karl
>>>>         
>>> And if you want packages from Freshrpms.
>>>
>>> Go to:  http://moonshine.freshrpms.net
>>>
>>> Next, click on "apt, yum, and others" (just below the logo)
>>>
>>> There's no entry for F7, but click on the Fedora Core 6 one, as the
>>> layout of the URL's in /etc/yum.repos.d is such that your version of
>>> Fedora is checked in /etc/fedora-release, then the correct repo is
>>> accessed for your Fedora version.
>>>
>>> Ok. Having clicked on Fedora Core 6. On the next page click on the
>>> "freshrpms-release-1.1-1.fc.noarch.rpm" line.  If you're using Firefox a
>>> box will open asking what to do with the download. Click on install it.
>>> You'll be asked for your root password, then the package installer will
>>> open. Ok it and the package will be installed.
>>>
>>> Look in /etc/yum.repos.d, and you will have a new file for freshrpms.
>>> open it, and it should look like this.
>>>
>>> # $Id: freshrpms.repo 3341 2005-06-28 18:40:26Z thias $
>>> [freshrpms]
>>> name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Freshrpms
>>> #baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/fres
>>> hrpms/
>>> mirrorlist=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/mirrors-fres
>>> hrpms enabled=1
>>> gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-freshrpms
>>> gpgcheck=1
>>>
>>> Ok. Close the editor, and firefox. Open a terminal, su to root, and do a
>>> yum install vlc . This will pull in a bunch of dependencies, (about 11). 
>>> Also do a yum install livdvdcss  if you need to play DVD's that need to
>>> be decrypted so as to play them.
>>>       
>>     Hi Nigel I do need livdvdcss but when I try to do so yum fools
>> around and says nothing to do. Could the name be wrong?
>>
>> Karl
>>     
>
> Hi Karl. At the freshrpms repo it's named libdvdcss, but on a Debian repo it's 
> named libdvdcss2. I havn't looked on the Livna repo, but perhaps it's named 
> libdvdcss2 there too. Or open Yumex, and have a look to see how it's named.
>
> I don't use Yum, but Apt, and often use synaptic, Apts GUI, to look for 
> packages, when I'm not sure how they're named.
>
> Nigel.
>
>  Well Nigel I went and looked at my /usr/lib/ and I put that in and yum installed this: libdvdcss.i386 0:1.2.9-4.lvn6
> and it WORKS!
>   
    I am now watching/listening to the Honeymooners so back to the fun.

Karl