vlc has no GUI

[Carroll Grigsby]

On Wed, 07 Nov 2012 22:20:22 +0100
lee <lee at yun.yagibdah.de> wrote:

> Carroll Grigsby <cgrigs986 at att.net> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, 07 Nov 2012 15:11:06 +0100
> > lee <lee at yun.yagibdah.de> wrote:
> >
> >> Hiisi <hiisi at fedoraproject.org> writes:
> >> 
> >> > On 7 November 2012 16:41, Michael Hiller <sojasau at gmail.com>
> >> > wrote:
> >> >> I was assuming that.
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> > Nobody should be advised to install third party software without
> >> > warnings that it can be harmful and leads to dreadful things.
> >> 
> >> "yum install vlc" fixed it, thank you!  I thought I had already
> >> done that ...
> >> 
> >> What's the alternative to installing 3rd party software?  Get its
> >> sources and compile and install it ourselves?  I wouldn't mind
> >> doing that if I knew how to make packages so that it's easier to
> >> keep track of it ...
> >> 
> >> 
> > Take a look here:
> > http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f17.html
> >
> > As the old saying goes, it works for me. Quite well.
> 
> That involves installing gstreamer-plugins-bad-nonfree:  Isn't that
> 3rd party software?
> 
> 

Yeah, it is. Sorry about that. Looks like you'll have to learn how to
play the harmonica.

-- cmg