FEDORA 4 - No sofware in YUM and no repositories for APT;

[Rahul Sundaram]

Robin Laing wrote:

> Serge wrote:
>
>> Mirco Scaramucci wrote:
>>
>>> Hello everybody.
>>> Finally FEDORA 4. Great.
>>> I have been trying to download software such as Timidity, Mplayer and
>>> other via YUM trying to enable usual repositories but to no avail.
>>> There doesn't seem to be any repos in the yum.conf file.
>>> I then tried to add repositories to apt-get using MIRROR-SELECT  and 
>>> got
>>> am error message.
>>>
>>> Is there anyway I can enable these like in FEDORA 3?
>>>
>>> Mirco
>>>
>>>
>> you can enable freshrpms by installing 
>> http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/4/i386/RPMS.freshrpms/freshrpms-release-1-1.fc.noarch.rpm 
>>
>>
>> Then just use yum.
>>
>> They have mplayer
>>
>> Serge
>>
>
> I like this.  An rpm to install repositories.  I will be glad when I 
> get the time to upgrade/install FC4.
>
This yum directory (/etc/yum.repos.d) for drop in repositories  is 
available in FC3 too.  Check this out
http://fedora.ivazquez.net/content/view/14/30/

regards
Rahul