List of rpms to install mplayer on FC2 (2.6.6-1.435.2.1)

[Chuck_Sterling]

Chris McD wrote:

> Chuck_Sterling wrote:
>> <FWIW>
>> Last night I successfully installed mplayer on FC2, and want to post
>> the list of rpms I installed to support this. Someone else might find
>> the info useful. Most of the list was found on the Internet via a
>> google search. I'm not sure that all were needed, but installed them
>> all anyway. One rpm I needed was not listed there but was called out
>> during the installation as a dependency. All were downloaded from
>> freshrpms.org.
>> 
>> Kernel info:
>> [chuck at aviary mplayer]$ uname -a
>> Linux aviary 2.6.6-1.435.2.1 #1 Wed Jun 30 15:29:30 EDT 2004 i686
>> i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>> 
>> [chuck at aviary mplayer]$ ls
>> aalib-1.4.0-5.1.fc2.fr.i386.rpm
>> faad2-2.0-1.1.fc2.fr.i386.rpm
>> lame-3.96-1.1.fc2.fr.i386.rpm
>> libdvdcss-1.2.8-4.1.fc2.fr.i386.rpm
>> libdvdplay-1.0.1-4.1.fc2.fr.i386.rpm
>> libdvdread-0.9.4-5.1.fc2.fr.i386.rpm
>> libfame-0.9.1-1.1.fc2.fr.i386.rpm
>> libmad-0.15.1b-2.1.fc2.fr.i386.rpm
>> libpostproc-1.0-0.10.pre4.1.fc2.fr.i386.rpm (not in original list)
>> lirc-0.6.6-2.1.fc2.fr.i386.rpm
>> lzo-1.08-3.1.fc2.fr.i386.rpm
>> mplayer-1.0-0.10.pre4.1.fc2.fr.i386.rpm
>> mplayer-fonts-1.1-2.fr.noarch.rpm
>> mplayer-skins-1.4-1.fr.noarch.rpm
>> xvidcore-1.0.1-1.1.fc2.fr.i386.rpm
>> 
>> Since I did not know what order of installation was needed, I just
>> used a baby script to install whatever would, then run it again and
>> again until all the dependencies were finally met. Took about four
>> passes, plus one more when finally I downloaded libpostproc.
>> 
>> example of script...
>> # for FILE in `ls -1 *.rpm`
>> 
>>>do
>>>echo $FILE
>>>rpm -i $FILE
>>>done
>> 
>> . . .
>> #
>> 
>> </FWIW>
>> Chuck Sterling
>> 
>> 
>> 
> erm haven't you ever heard of yum?

Yes but did not know how to get it working right. Thanks for the info.
I'll enjoy a bit more automation next time, I think.

> 
> how about:
> 
> add this to your /etc/yum.conf:
> 
> [livna-stable]
> name=Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (stable)
> baseurl= http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/yum/stable
> gpgcheck=1
> 
> then:
> # yum install mplayer
> 
> 
> 
> ... and bingo you have mplayer installed.
> 
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
Thanks again,
Chuck