Hi all!

My plan was to install a win98 for gaming and suse for watching movies. I dowloaded the 5 cd-s and one addon [i have broadband connection at my work], i installed 98se, and suse 10.1.

I have no multimedia support. And i have not internet at home, but i download the addon cd, which i think is full of codecs... but i dowloaded other codecs too.
and i click the rpm, the yast ask me, if i want to install this codec, i said yes, and i got error message.

I google for offline updating possibilities, but i didn`t find the answer. i downloaded all recomended rpms, but i can`t install.

and the question: how can i install audio/video codecs offline, at suse 10.1?

What video player are you using?

For MPlayer for example, you can download the codecs in .tar.bz2 format and you then copy them to a standard location.

On my system, I downloaded MPlayer and compiled it myself (as a tar.bz2 - I never never never use .rpm's or .debs - unimaginable cr*p) and then downloaded its various codec packs, from the MPlayer site, unpacking them by hand into

/usr/local/lib/codecs

which I was able to use because my MPlayer compile configure line was

./configure --with-codecsdir=/usr/local/lib/codecs --enable-gui --enable-largefiles --enable-dvdnav --enable-css --enable-freetype --enable-mmx --enable-mmx2 --enable-sse --enable-sse2 --with-xvmclib=XvMNVIDIA --enable-menu

(so you can see the codecs must go into /usr/local/lib/codecs, because that's how MPlayer is compiled)

No idea what you're going to do with all those !@#! RPMS you've got - I never use .RPM as I find them very unintuitive and incredibly difficult to integrate with other software NOT installed via RPM. Rather drop RPM entirely for this multimedia effort of yours, download sources and compile them yourself. It is really much much easier.