So I was trying to install transcode with Yum and I got a "Nothing to do" message, I really don't know what that all means, someone please explain that to me!

the output on my Fedora Core 3 box is this

[root@localhost zack]# yum install transcode
Setting up Install Process
Setting up Repo: base
repomd.xml 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
Setting up Repo: updates-released
repomd.xml 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 797 kB 04:58
MD Read : ################################################## 2623/2623
base : ################################################## 2622/2622
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 348 kB 02:05
MD Read : ################################################## 897/897
updates-re: ################################################## 897/897
No Match for argument transcode
Nothing to do

That error means that there is no package called "transcode" in the yum repositories you have configured. You may want to add dags repository to your /etc/yum.conf.

If you are running FC3, you add a file to the yum.repos.d directory to set up a new repo. If you need help doing this, see this link:

http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=27279

Add a few good repos to increase the number of packages available to you.

that link to the fedora forum doesn't work, at all.

after doing some digging I managed to get an updated yum.conf and when I tried running the yum installer again, I got a different error, here is the output of "yum install transcode"

[root@localhost zack]# yum install transcode
Setting up Install Process
Setting up Repo: dries
repomd.xml 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
Setting up Repo: dag
repomd.xml 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
Setting up Repo: livna-stable
repomd.xml 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
Setting up Repo: jpackage-fedora
repomd.xml 100% |=========================| 903 B 00:00
Setting up Repo: atrpms
repomd.xml 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
Setting up Repo: updates-released
repomd.xml 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
Setting up Repo: newrpms
repomd.xml 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
Setting up Repo: freshrpms
repomd.xml 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
Setting up Repo: base
repomd.xml 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
Setting up Repo: extras
repomd.xml 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 56 kB 00:30
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 56 kB 00:34
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 32 kB 00:36
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 56 kB 00:38
Error: failure: repodata/primary.xml.gz from dries: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.


I got a bunch of different mirrors, so hopefully that should work. What am I missing here?

Please help

You have enough repositories setup, just comment out the dries repository so that yum doesn't use it.