how to use 'yum'
 

hi

i am trying to install mplayer. i have rpm file for mplayer and all the dependencies rpm files also. and when i try to install using
yum install mplayerfilename.rpm

i get some error, can somebody tell me how to use yum to install

It would help people tremendously if you could post the exact error.

In addition editing your profile and adding your distributon can help tailor fixes to you.

There's a number of things that could be wrong with yum but untill i know the specifics ie. error and distribution it's hard to tell.

If by chance you use Fedora core like me:

http://www.fedorafaq.org/ - this has some basic but very useful Info (including a section on yum)

http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_cor...ion_notes.html - more specific FC 3 info
http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_cor...ion_notes.html - more specific FC 4 info

Hi buddy,
It would have been a lot easier to google "how to use YUM"
any ways i did it and found the follwing link
regards

hi

when i do

yum install mplayerfilename.rpm


i get the following error.

setting up install process
setting up repos
cannot find a valid baseurl for repo :base

so, i have FC3, on compaq presario r3000 laptop. i have partitioned harddisk into win xp and FC3. right now i am accesing net via wireless in win xp , so when i boot in to linux i dont
have any internet connection . so how do i get around this difficulty. right now what i do is download rpm files in win xp and then boot in to fc3 an use these files. so please
advice me. i used rpmfind.net to get the rpm files and the dependencies.


regards
wood

http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_cor...ion_notes.html
http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_cor...ion_notes.html
http://www.fedora.us/wiki/FedoraHOWTO
http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/I_j..._Now_what.html
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archiv...p/t-45571.html
http://www.fedorafaq.org/#installsoftware

What you are trying to do has been asked and documented many times before the above was found in 15 seconds.

Hint: you don't use yum to install an rpm file on your local hdd, you use rpm

Go to livna, download and install their livna release rpm for the version of FC that you are using. Once thats done, just do
a list of mplayer packages will be listed and you can install the ones you need by doing