Can't play multimedia Cds on my linux system

Nabeel · 11-15-2009, 04:27 AM

I'm unable to play any video or audio cds on my mandriva one 2010.

maslik · 11-15-2009, 06:37 AM

Do you have any player installed? Try using VLC. It should work.

Nabeel · 11-15-2009, 09:25 AM

it asks to be installed using easy urpmi but i don't know how to do this

pixellany · 11-15-2009, 09:31 AM

Did you check with the package manager and the Mandriva repositories? (I found vlc for my system.)

mark_alfred · 11-15-2009, 09:43 AM

I imagine that in the terminal (or console) you could simply enter the command urpmi vlc and install it. Even easier, though, would be to use the graphical user interface Drakrpm (aka rpmdrake, or aka Install & Remove Software). For this gui application, hit the Star menu, and then select Install & Remove Software.

See http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Drakrpm for more information on using Install & Remove Software.

See http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Urpmi for more information on urpmi.

Nabeel · 11-15-2009, 12:01 PM

i can't even get the medias.it displays this warning when i click on th update button
"no active medium found.you must enable some media to be able to update them"
When i try to add a specific media mirror it gives this error

"There was an error downloading the mirror list:

retrival of[/var/cache/urpmi/basic.2010.0.i586.list?product=One]failed

the network, or the mandriva website,may be unavailable.please try again later."

mark_alfred · 11-15-2009, 12:12 PM

Perhaps http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ can help you get the active media.

knudfl · 11-15-2009, 04:52 PM

Mandriva :

Add / Remove Software >> Menu : Settings → Media Manager

.. and click "Add" and check that :
Main, Main updates, Contrib, Non-free, Non-free Updates
.. are ticked. ( Untick one and tick it again.) Click OK.
Now the "urpmi database" should update the repo informations.
.....

Nabeel · 11-16-2009, 07:18 AM

i only get the option to add a specific mirror or a custom mirror with add word

knudfl · 11-16-2009, 07:58 PM

# urpmi.update -a

http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Tools/urpmi#urpmi.update

HmNtr · 12-18-2009, 05:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mark_alfred

Perhaps http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ can help you get the active media.

Mark, thanks for the tip, that got me one repository that then populated the rest of them! Thanks for solving my issue!

HmNtr