[K12OSN] Getting MPlayer installed

Petre Scheie petre at maltzen.net
Wed Aug 23 16:22:02 UTC 2006


Dan Young wrote:
> John P. Conlon wrote:
>> I'm running K12LTSP FC5 in a home brew server that has an AMD 1ghz 32
>> bit processor and 1.5 gig of RAM.
>>
>> I have been trying to install MPlayer in my server for several days and
>> I'm constantly running into version and missing file problems.   It also
>> seems that every time I download an rpm file which I thought should have
>> everything needed to make this work I've been proved wrong.
>>
>> Can someone give me an exact listing of which files and versions I need
>> to use to get this critter up and running?  Where to find these files
>> would be extremely helpful also.
> 
> Read:
> http://rpm.livna.org/faq.html
> 
> Do:
> rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-5.rpm
> yum install mplayer
> 
Is it just me, or is the livna repo included with K12LTSP but disabled by default?  I 
think I noticed this a few releases back, and have just gotten in the habit of enabling 
it after I install the system.  But I've never seen any discussion about it.

Petre




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