As u know i am new to linux and have installed FC 5 on my system I want to install Mplayer on it what shud i do please give complete details

http://home.gagme.com/greg/linux/fc5-tips.php has detailed instructions which work well.

i have tried it but it says ..

[root@localhost ~]# yum -y --disablerepo=livna install mplayer mplayer-skins mplayer-fonts
Loading "installonlyn" plugin


Error getting repository data for livna, repository not found

This worked for me

http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mplayer-fedora.html

Yaa i went thru this too but got tamgled can you help

Hope so

i dont know what to download and how to install

[root@localhost ~]# rpm -Uvh mplayer-1.0pre8-1.i386.rpm
warning: mplayer-1.0pre8-1.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID b6d6aef5
error: Failed dependencies:
libxvidcore.so.4 is needed by mplayer-1.0pre8-1.i386

hello
best choice is to take the original tar ball from mplayer website and './configure and make' and 'make install (as su)'.

before that please download all the win32 dlls from mplayerhq.hu and copy them in /usr/lib/win32 (if win32 doesnot exist create it).

and make sure you also download the 'fonts' and the 'skin' for mplayer. keep an eye on what is displayed after you 'make install' mplayer--that'll tell you where to copy the font and skin.

Hello Ricka343

Her in easy steps what to do to get it working;

1) login as root user, open an terminal and
root@localhost]#gedit /etc/yum.conf

Now a text editor opens and with the yum config file

add the following lines

[greysector-all]
baseurl=http://rpm.greysector.net/yum/all/$basearch/
name=Grey Sector RPMs for all Fedora Core releases - $basearch
#mirrorlist=http://rpm.greysector.net/yum/mirrorlist-all
enabled=1
gpgkey=http://rpm.greysector.net/greysector-pubkey.txt

[greysector]
baseurl=http://rpm.greysector.net/yum/$releasever/$basearch/
name=Grey Sector RPMs for Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch
#mirrorlist=http://rpm.greysector.net/yum/mirrorlist-$releasever
enabled=1
gpgkey=http://rpm.greysector.net/greysector-pubkey.txt

save the file (with the same name)

then type root@localhost]#yum install mplayer

And everything go's all automatic

Of course not have to type root@localhost]#

To make things more nice and smooth change

yum install "yum install mplayer" to

yum install mplayer mplayer-gui mplayerplug-in mplayer-skins mencoder mplayer-codecs mplayer-codecs-extra

With this you will have a fully working MPlayer which can play all pupulare file formats

I got these errors after changing the yum config file :


Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ?
yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 80, in main
base.getOptionsConfig(args)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 177, in getOptionsConfig
self.doConfigSetup(fn=opts.conffile, root=root)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 104, in doConfigSetup
self.getReposFromConfig()
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 135, in getReposFromConfig
parser.read(files)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/parser.py", line 225, in read
IncludingConfigParser.read(self,filename)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/parser.py", line 126, in read
ConfigParser.read(self,filename)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/ConfigParser.py", line 267, in read
self._read(fp, filename)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/ConfigParser.py", line 462, in _read
raise MissingSectionHeaderError(fpname, lineno, line)
ConfigParser.MissingSectionHeaderError: File contains no section headers.
file: ///etc/yum.repos.d/livna.repo, line: 1
'=1\n'

Did you changed the information in yum.conf or did you add the lines I give?

i just added the file this is how it looks now


# This is the fedorafaq.org yum.conf for Fedora Core 5.
#
# Note that you also need the rest of the configuration
# as described at http://www.fedorafaq.org/#yumconf
[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
keepcache=0
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
pkgpolicy=newest
distroverpkg=redhat-release
tolerant=1
exactarch=1
obsoletes=1
# Don't check keys for localinstall
gpgcheck=0
plugins=1
metadata_expire=1800
# Changed this because some mirrors go down and then
# re-trying takes forever.
timeout=7


# PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo
# in /etc/yum.repos.d


[greysector-all]
baseurl=http://rpm.greysector.net/yum/all/$basearch/
name=Grey Sector RPMs for all Fedora Core releases - $basearch
#mirrorlist=http://rpm.greysector.net/yum/mirrorlist-all
enabled=1
gpgkey=http://rpm.greysector.net/greysector-pubkey.txt

[greysector]
baseurl=http://rpm.greysector.net/yum/$releasever/$basearch/
name=Grey Sector RPMs for Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch
#mirrorlist=http://rpm.greysector.net/yum/mirrorlist-$releasever
enabled=1
gpgkey=http://rpm.greysector.net/greysector-pubkey.txt

That seems to look good.

The error you get has something to do with a repo you have configurated in the folder /etc/yum.repos.d

Possible it will work if you try it for a few times