Adding dries.repo question

satimis · 04-02-2007, 08:56 PM

Hi folks,

FC6

I need to add x86_64 dries.repo to download mplayer=plugin.

$ ls /etc/yum.repos.d/

Code:

fedora-core.repo                fedora-legacy.repo
fedora-development.repo         fedora-updates.repo
fedora-extras-development.repo  fedora-updates-testing.repo

Where can I download its repo package?

OR

According to;
http://dries.studentenweb.org/rpm/clientconfig.html

Instead can I add following lines on "fedora-development.repo"

Code:

[dries]
name=Extra Fedora rpms dries - $releasever - $basearch
http://ftp.belnet.be/packages/dries.ulyssis.org/redhat/el4/en/x86_64/
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1

TIA

B.R.
satimis

macemoneta · 04-02-2007, 11:32 PM

You don't want the dries repo; it's out of date. All the media files are kept current at livna.

Code:

rpm -Uvh http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/6/x86_64/livna-release-6-1.noarch.rpm
yum -y install mplayerplug-in

satimis · 04-02-2007, 11:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by macemoneta

You don't want the dries repo; it's out of date. All the media files are kept current at livna.

Code:

rpm -Uvh http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/6/x86_64/livna-release-6-1.noarch.rpm
yum -y install mplayerplug-in

Hi macemoneta,

Tks for your advice.

But failed with following warning;

Code:

warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID a109b1ec
Importing GPG key 0xA109B1EC "Livna.org rpms <rpm-key@livna.org>" from /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-livna
warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 1aa78495


Public key for enca-1.9-3.fc6.rf.x86_64.rpm is not installed

satimis

macemoneta · 04-03-2007, 12:07 AM

You should have gotten a prompt to install the key. Maybe it's not prompting because of the '-y' option on yum. You can try it without that for the first access to livna. If not, you can do it manually:

rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-livna

satimis · 04-03-2007, 12:41 AM

Hi macemoneta,

Quote:

rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-livna

I got it done. Tks

satimis

Junior Hacker · 04-03-2007, 01:17 AM

satimis

I fully agree with macmoneta, I don't use dries. I do use Livna, atrpms, and freshrpms over and above the three Fedora repos. The more repos you have, the longer it takes to get a list of installable/upgrades packages when you go to check for them as yum has to download the list from each repo, which changes once or twice a week. A good link to customizing your Fedora installation follows, it has helped me with flash and java setups, and multi-media stuff, hope it comes in handy:

http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-fc6.html

satimis · 04-03-2007, 02:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Junior Hacker

satimis

I fully agree with macmoneta, I don't use dries. I do use Livna, atrpms, and freshrpms over and above the three Fedora repos. The more repos you have, the longer it takes to get a list of installable/upgrades packages when you go to check for them as yum has to download the list from each repo, which changes once or twice a week. A good link to customizing your Fedora installation follows, it has helped me with flash and java setups, and multi-media stuff, hope it comes in handy:

http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-fc6.html

Hi Junior Hacker,

Tks for your advice and URL.

I'm running x86_64 firefox and x86_64 seamonkey on FC6 and CentOS respectively. I have been sufferring from w/o flashplugin on firefox for sometimes, becasue unable to get 64bit flashplugin.

I solved my problem by following;

6. Installing 64bit Firefox
On;
http://www.my-guides.net/en/content/view/26/26/

to install mplayerplug-in and 'flash plugin'. Now I have both of them running on 64bit FC64. It is a nice guide with clear steps.

I'm going to install them on seamonkey.

B.R.
satimis

Junior Hacker · 04-03-2007, 02:47 AM

WOW!
Am I ever glad I responded to this thread, in the next day or two I will try this out in my "test" Fedora 64 partition, (I can have many many copies of the same FC6 64 installation on my drive). I don't believe what I read in this link, but have no problem trying this out in a "test" copy of my FED64.

You're putting pressure on me, I'm considering shutting down my best OS (Debian Etch 64) to verify this "flash player on 64 bit Firefox" deal.

I got allot of work to do you know!, in Etch..... Forensics.

Damn you!

Ryptyde · 04-03-2007, 10:52 PM

Mixing 3rd party repos will cause you to have dependency conflicts. Guaranteed problems and I'm speaking from my own experience and many others.

You can draw from different repos but don't keep them enabled during updates or you will start to see error messages frequently saying eg: "package such and such conflicts with package so and so".

Those 3rd party repos don't follow/have the same packaging standards to be compatible with each other.

satimis · 04-04-2007, 03:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ryptyde

Mixing 3rd party repos will cause you to have dependency conflicts. Guaranteed problems and I'm speaking from my own experience and many others.

Agreed. I learnt bitter lesson before. Finally I have to reinstall the whole system.

Quote:

You can draw from different repos but don't keep them enabled during updates or you will start to see error messages frequently saying eg: "package such and such conflicts with package so and so".

I only use 3rd party repos installing packages which I can't find on default repos. I never run update on those packages.

Satimis