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[Aaron Konstam]

On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 16:54 +0530, Sanjay S Nair wrote:
> Hi Everybody,
> 
> I am new to Linux. I have actually left one week playing with and
> using purposefully the new fedora 9. I have got solutions for most of
> the thing all the time. I am a php starting developer and have
> installed LAMP, phpmyadmin, drupal, filezilla, mplayer successfully
> and working perfectly. I have some issues currently which I want to
> clear from relevant sources.
> 
> The Totem movie player and Amarok are installed alreadyin my fedora
> but it is showing errors can't play. I know it requires gstreamer or
> xine and have tried to install both but unfortunately both failed, i
> don't know what is the problem.
> 
> I have installed some of the software from the source using
> the ./configure, make , make install and I have removed the folder
> from which i have installed it. Is that folder required for
> unistalling the software installed from  that. I have no idea, I have
> read somewhere that it is required. i want to know the right methods
> of installing and uninstalling the softwares all possioble way.
> 
> When i install something I have no idea where the thing is going to be
> installed (the directory path). I have less idea of the file system.
> 
> I want to have deeper knowledge in using Linux and want to dig into it
> to learn more. And I know that its open source but I don't know how to
> use the code. i mean where is all these codes located. how do I modify
> it and all.
> 
> Eventhough i have successfully installed the mplayer I am not
> successful in installing the GUI for that player. i don't know
> sometimes it doesn't works the ./configure, make, make install.
> 
> I have tried to see some videos from YouTube but the firefox shown to
> download the plugin. i have downloaded and installed the plugin, i
> thought everything will be fine but there is no audio only video
> working fine.
> 
> I have installed successfully the youtube-dl.py file and able to
> download the files using that and viewing using the mplayer fine. And
> have also installed the firefox plugin for downloading that is Okay.
> 
> I don't know how to upgrade the firefox and other stuff. I want to
> know all the methods not just yum.
> 
> And the yum is not working it show some error pop up "Error: Cannot
> retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: dag. Please
> verify its path and try again"... And i want to know the offline
> method installer.
> 
> 
> 
> These all are my doubts about the Fedora 9 Usage.
> 
Do you have a dag repository? If so remove it and then use yum to
install libflashsupport. That might bring back sound.Before you start
compiling things use the yum system to install what you want to install.
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