RH10 multimedia support

[Michael Schwendt]

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On Sat, 06 Sep 2003 20:29:27 -0400, Elton Woo wrote:

> On September 6, 2003 07:57 pm, Féliciano Matias Féliciano Matias 
> <feliciano.matias at free.xx> declared:
> 
> > For freshrpms with yum (it's the same form fedora and/or apt) :
> > # rpm -i
> > http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/redhat/9/yum/yum-2.0.1-1.rh.fr.i386.
> >rpm # yum install mplayer
> >  or
> > # yum install xine
> >
> Thanks to your comments above, I finally downloaded and installed yum.
> However, as a test, I tried to install xine, and I get this error message:
> 
>  root]# yum install xine
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: Red Hat Linux 9.0.93 - i386 - freshrpms
> retrygrab() failed for:
>   http://ayo.freshrpms.net/redhat/9.0.93/i386/freshrpms/headers/header.info
>   Executing failover method
> failover: out of servers to try
> Error getting file 
> http://ayo.freshrpms.net/redhat/9.0.93/i386/freshrpms/headers/header.info
> [Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
> 
> So I guess I'll have to it the usual way: download the packages and needed
> libs through mozilla...

You installed the preconfigured Yum for Shrike on Severn without
a Severn repository at freshrpms.net. That's the reason why
you get a 404 Not Found error. The example above was Shrike-specific.


It would have been different if you had used Yum from Fedora's
Severn repository: http://www.fedora.us/wiki/FedoraHOWTO

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