I am having trouble installing mplayer on my pc that runs on Fedora Core 2. Please tell me how do i install it. Thank You

i have downloaded and installed the following rpms from http://www.mplayerhq.hu (i dont remeber complete URL):

mencoder-1.0pre5-2.i386.rpm
mplayer-1.0pre5-2.i386.rpm
mplayer-codecs-essential-20040704-1.i386.rpm
mplayer-common-1.0pre5-2.i386.rpm
mplayer-font-iso9-1.1-1.noarch.rpm --> maybe u dont need, i have downloaded it for turkish language support.
mplayer-gui-1.0pre5-2.i386.rpm
mplayer-skin-default-1.4-1.noarch.rpm
mplayer-tools-1.0pre5-2.i386.rpm
mplayer-vidix-1.0pre5-2.i386.rpm

then installed it.
#rpm -ivh *

it seems that it works. i havent tried to play movies yet .

good luck

What?!You have to install so many files???!!!

Try installing it through YUM or APT.

Errm..... How?

yum install mplayer

have a look here

OK. i finally now a little more. so you mean that you need to install yum to install rpm files?

No...yum is kinda seperate from RPM....it just does package managment...meaning you don't have to download the RPM and then run the rpm command. You tell it what to install (aka yum install mplayer) and it'll handle dependencies (most of the time) and install it for you. There's also apt-get (google for it "apt-get fedora") which I recommend over yum...though I also occasionally use yum when apt-get can't find something.

So do i have to install it from the net, or is it included in the Fedora Core 2 package?

Taken from http://www.linuxcompatible.org/thread27839-1.html

Apt-get RPM is based on the same principle as apt-get for Debian, in that it works out all the depenencies for you when installing packages. To install apt-get on Fedora core 2, download this [1] and this [2].

As root, "cd" to the directory where you downloaded these two RPMs and go:

rpm -Uvh apt-0.5.15cnc6-1.1.fc2.fr.i386.rpm apt-devel-0.5.15cnc6-1.1.fc2.fr.i386.rpm [enter]

(If using konsole, you can copy and paste the above command, without "[enter]" of course...)

Both should install without incident. Next, you must update your machine with apt by going:

apt-get update [enter]

After it finishes, do apt-get update a second time.

When it is through downloading the updates, you will next need the front end for apt which is called "Synaptic."

Still as root go:

apt-get install synaptic

When it is done installing synaptic, just type:

synaptic [enter]

The Synaptic front end will now come up. It is very intuitive, and you shouldn't have too difficult a time figuring out how to use it.

[1] - http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrp...c2.fr.i386.rpm
[2] - http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrp...c2.fr.i386.rpm

If there is anything there that you don't understand, just post back.

Good Luck

Kristijan

yum is already built into FC2. Go to www.fedorafaq.org for their yum respositories.

I agree with what almost everyone suggest: Use yum to install applications like mplayer.
Yum is included in FC2, and fedorafaq.org is the place to find a yum.conf file.

i have got the skins for mplayer....they are in the format of *.bz2.....how and where do i install these skins??? please help