hiii...friends
m using rhel5....n dont know how to install vlc..
can nebdy suggest me the packages nd d steps to install vlc....
thnx in advance....

Hi and welcome to LQ.

Configure the DAG yum repository and then do

i got an error message

[root@localhost ~]# yum install vlc
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Loading "rhnplugin" plugin
This system is not registered with RHN.
RHN support will be disabled.
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linu...rors-freshrpms error was
[Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: freshrpms

There is a problem with the freshrpms repository. Try

every tme i am gettin d sme message....

# yum disablerepo=freshrpms install vlc
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Loading "rhnplugin" plugin
This system is not registered with RHN.
RHN support will be disabled.

usage: yum [options] < grouplist, localinstall, groupinfo, localupdate, resolvedep, erase, deplist, groupremove, makecache, upgrade, provides, shell, install, whatprovides, groupinstall, update, groupupdate, info, search, check-update, list, remove, clean, grouperase >

options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-t, --tolerant be tolerant of errors
-C run entirely from cache, don't update cache
-c [config file] config file location
-R [minutes] maximum command wait time
-d [debug level] debugging output level
-e [error level] error output level
-y answer yes for all questions
--version show Yum version and exit
--installroot=[path] set install root
--enablerepo=[repo] enable one or more repositories (wildcards allowed)
--disablerepo=[repo] disable one or more repositories (wildcards allowed)
-x [package], --exclude=[package]
exclude package(s) by name or glob
--obsoletes enable obsoletes processing during updates
--noplugins disable Yum plugins


wht 2 do next...???

Is your RHEL license all paid up?

yuppp.....

There's something funny with your freshrpms.repo file (see /etc/yum.d.repos or similar)
Does freshrpms.net even do RHEL packages - all I can find are Fedora ones

install rpmforge.repo and then try, you can get it.
You can install repo on line. it looks like this:


# Name: RPMforge RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise 5 - dag
# URL: http://rpmforge.net/
[rpmforge]
name = Red Hat Enterprise $releasever - RPMforge.net - dag
#baseurl = http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/$basearch/dag
mirrorlist = http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/mirrors-rpmforge
#mirrorlist = file:///etc/yum.repos.d/mirrors-rpmforge
enabled = 1
protect = 0
gpgkey = file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmforge-dag
gpgcheck = 1

My apologies I made a minor error in my example above. The correct syntax should be

Hi friends

VLC Player is working fine on RHEL5 without registration.

Please follow the steps in GUI mode & plz avoid using yum installer while installing VLC.

1. Make sure your repository directory is properly configured.

2. Download the following files from the Internet

i. apt-0.5.15lorg3.2-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
ii. fribidi-0.10.4-0.src.rpm
iii. libfribidi0-0.19.1-2mdv2009.1.i586.rpm
iv. rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
v. vlc-0.8.6d-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm

3. Once the download is over. Install the rpm files in GUI mode. Install the vlc-0.8.6d-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm file at last.

4. Your VLC player is ready to work without any problem.

Feedbacks welcome.

vlc-0.8.6d-1 is way behind.

You also should not need ii and iii.

Especially ii as it is a source rpm and not a binary.

Edit: Maybe it would be needed for subtitles.

Hi All,

I am using RHEL-5 (without paid support now), and want to install vlc-0.9.9 on my machine. I havestarted a new thread last week, and get some references from you all. But that time I was unable to get much out of that, so I decided to get back to shelves and read some more details about installation of VLC.

Today I check this thread and saw that there is enough information to start with. I downloaded vlc-0.9.9a-5.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm from the net, and later following the thread, downloaded and install 'rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el4.rf.x86_64.rpm' as well.

After that I tried: YUM INSTALL vlc-0.9.9a-5.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm , and it worked fine for me as this time it resolved almost all the dependencies. Just few left , those are :
i) Error: Missing Dependency: libfribidi.so.0()(64bit) is needed by package vlc
ii)Error: Missing Dependency: libQtCore.so.4()(64bit) is needed by package vlc
iii)Error: Missing Dependency: libQtGui.so.4()(64bit) is needed by package vlc
iv)Error: Missing Dependency: libgif.so.4()(64bit) is needed by package imlib2

Now the problem is that I believe that I am pretty ready to use the VLC software, but I am not getting the location where it got saved at? Could anybody please help me in locating that so that I can see if I am able to use that ??

Many thanks in advance,
Kapil

Hi All,

Could somebody please help me in locating the installed VLC on my RHEL-5 machine ? Is there a way by which I can locate the installed softwares, or can get the list of all installed applications ??

Regards,
Kapil