F-17 vlc/rpmfusion install problem -

[Michael Schwendt]

On Fri, 01 Jun 2012 12:48:17 -0400, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:

> On 01/06/12 12:07, suvayu ali wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
> > <bobgoodwin at wildblue.net>  wrote:
> >>    Ok, well maybe what I need is to get rpmfusion-free installed which
> >>    I don't see in my list of yum repos? I haven't been able to get that
> >>    either.
> > http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration
> >
> 
>     For whatever reason I have:
> 
>         [bobg at box9 ~]$ cd /etc/yum.repos.d
>         [bobg at box9 yum.repos.d]$ ll rpmfusion*
>         -rw-r--r--. 1 root root    0 Jun  1 12:27
>         rpmfusion-free-rawhide.repo
>         -rw-r--r--. 1 root root    0 Jun  1 12:21 rpmfusion-free.repo
>         -rw-r--r--. 1 root root    0 Jun  1 12:29
>         rpmfusion-free-updates.repo
>         -rw-r--r--. 1 root root    0 Jun  1 12:28
>         rpmfusion-free-updates-testing.repo
>         -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1393 Feb 27 17:03
>         rpmfusion-nonfree-rawhide.repo
>         -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1247 Oct 28  2011 rpmfusion-nonfree.repo
>         -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1245 Oct 28  2011
>         rpmfusion-nonfree-updates.repo
>         -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1305 May 17  2009
>         rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing.repo
> 
>     And haven't been able to fix it.

More interesting might be to understand "what the hell have you done
to arrive in such a situation"? ;)

> Following the VLC Configuration
>     instruction doesn't deal with this, but it just keeps telling me
>     that each step is installed? I recreated the "rpmfusion-free" files
>     but they remain empty. Is there a yum command to restore them, it's
>     not obvious to me from the man page?

Open a terminal. Become superuser "root". Run:

  rpm -e rpmfusion-release-nonfree rpmfusion-release-free

Then visit the web page quoted above and try to add the "free"
repository configuration again. There are multiple ways how to do it.
Choose the method you think you can handle easily.
If you suceed, continue with the "nonfree" repository config. Else,
be verbose in your reply to this list and tell what you've tried and
what has happened.

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