[RndTbl] Just installed Fedora 5 - Want to install MPlayer

Theodore theodore at nerdzone.ca
Sun Jun 11 17:36:15 CDT 2006


It would appear that whoever maintains the "livna" repo for yum has 
taken care of all of that:

http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_5_installation_notes.html (theres 
a section on importing their repo, and then basically you yum -y install 
mplayer)

Theo

Mike Pfaiffer wrote:
> 	Some good things and some not so good things. Over all I'm not impressed, but 
> there aren't enough problems (yet) to justify my going back to Fedora 2.
> 
> 	Anyhow... I just recompiled MPlayer and at first it didn't like the compiler. 
> I told it not to check the compiler and there was an error near the end of 
> the "make" step. I did a quick check of the MPlayer site and it seems they've 
> moved over to a new machine (without saying where it is). I still have a copy 
> of Pre-7 from before. Has anybody been able to install/compile it for Fedora 
> 5? If so, how? Is there anything newer than Pre-7? Have the codecs been 
> updated? Is there indeed a new site or was I hallucinating as a result of 
> being up until 4:00am the previous night? Do I have to go and get the binary 
> rpm?
> 
> 	I'll ask again at the meeting on Tuesday. Alternatively, if I get it working 
> I'll tell everybody how (if someone reminds me).
> 
> 				Later
> 				Mike
> 
> 



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