How to get yum to install mplayer

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Fri Apr 1 16:55:34 UTC 2005


jim lawrence wrote:
> On Apr 1, 2005 11:47 AM, jim lawrence <fedorajim at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>On Apr 1, 2005 11:46 AM, kevin.kempter at dataintellect.com
>><kevin.kempter at dataintellect.com> wrote:
>>
>>>What config files do I change, and which sources do I add to the config files
>>>to get yum to install mplayer?
>>>
>>
>>see id you have a freshrpms repo in /etc/yum.repos.d/ if not you can
>>do the following
>>
>>as root   gedit /etc/yum.repos/d/freshrpms.repo
>>add the following
>># repo for Freshrpms
>>[freshrpms]
>>name=FreshRPMs
>>mirrorlist=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/mirrors-freshrpms
>>enabled=0
>>#gpgcheck=1
>>
>>save and exit
>>yum check-update
>>yum install mplayer mplayer-skins mplayer-fonts
> 
> forgot you need this to 
> as root   
> rpm --import http://freshrpms.net/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.txt

Note that you can set up the freshrpms repo file *and* import the GPG 
key in one step by doing:
# rpm -Uvh 
http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/fedora/linux/3/freshrpms-release/freshrpms-release-1-1.fc.fr.noarch.rpm

Paul.




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