For the life of me I can't get a video player to work.

[hollywood63 0]

I have tried everthing I could possibly think of to get a video player to work with redhat 9. I tried tar balls I tried rpms I bought redhat for dummies and no matter what I can't seem to get the damn thing to load. Can anyone help with this

Thanks

[Tekchip 0]

Ok we're going to need more info. Exactly which players have you tried and what are you wanting to use it for? Ogle is an awesome DVD player. Mplayer is an excellent all around player of nearly any format. Have you tried both of these? What problems are you running into exactly? Dependencie issues, errors?

[Philipp 6]

First, download YUM from here - http://shrike.freshrpms.net/rpm.html?id=765

 

Switch to root and install YUM:

su -

rpm -ivh yum-1.98-3.20030707.rh9.fr.i386.rpm

 

Now you can install mplayer by doing this:

yum install mplayer

 

If you like to install ogle:

yum install ogle

 

YUM will download all necessary files to resolve the dependencies

 

For more information about YUM:

http://www.linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/

[Admiral LSD 0]

Why not just do the sensible thing and give Red Hat the flick?

 

RPM: Retarded Package Manager

[hollywood63 0]

And what would you suggest instead of Redhat

[hollywood63 0]

Phillipp I downloaded and installed YUM like you suggested I then downloaded mplayer and a few others. When I go to open and install any of the players the preparing system update box pops up for a few seconds then it goes away and nothing happens. What the hell am i missing here

Thanks for the help

[Philipp 6]

You need to run YUM in a shell window

 

Here an example:

Quote:

msi:~# su -

Password:

msi:~# yum install mplayer

Gathering package information from servers

Getting headers from: Red Hat Linux 9 base

Getting headers from: Red Hat Linux 9 freshrpms

Getting headers from: Red Hat Linux 9 os

Getting headers from: Red Hat Linux 9 updates

Finding updated packages

Downloading needed headers

Resolving dependencies

Dependencies resolved

I will do the following:

[install: mplayer.i386]

I will install/upgrade these to satisfy the depedencies:

[deps: libdv.i386]

[deps: libdvdread.i386]

[deps: libpostproc.i386]

[deps: libdvdcss.i386]

[deps: faad2.i386]

[deps: lzo.i386]

[deps: mplayer-fonts.noarch]

[deps: lirc.i386]

Is this ok [y/N]: y

Getting libdv-0.99-fr2.i386.rpm

Getting libdvdread-0.9.4-fr3.i386.rpm

Getting libpostproc-0.90-fr2.i386.rpm

Getting libdvdcss-1.2.6-fr2.i386.rpm

Getting faad2-1.1-fr2.20030409.i386.rpm

Getting lzo-1.08-fr2.i386.rpm

Getting mplayer-fonts-1.0-fr1.noarch.rpm

Getting mplayer-0.90-fr2.i386.rpm

Getting lirc-0.6.6-fr1.i386.rpm

Calculating available disk space - this could take a bit

lirc 100 % done

libdv 100 % done

libdvdread 100 % done

libpostproc 100 % done

libdvdcss 100 % done

faad2 100 % done

lzo 100 % done

mplayer-fonts 100 % done

mplayer 100 % done

Installed: mplayer.i386

Updated: libdv.i386 libdvdread.i386 libpostproc.i386 libdvdcss.i386 faad2.i386 lzo.i386 mplayer-fonts.noarch lirc.i386

Transaction(s) Complete

[hollywood63 0]

I tried by logging in as root. It starts going through its thing then it reads that a package matching mplayer can not be found. I thought I had to download the rpms while in root so I tried that also. I get the same thing package matching can not be found. Any more thoughts?

[Philipp 6]

Please post your /etc/yum.conf

[hollywood63 0]

I hope this is what you are aking for. Is it possible that I have a bad installation? I downloaded the three discs of the tube. No matter what software I try and install its the same thing. I'm really green at linux so go easy on me

Thanks Art

 

 

 

 

[main]

cachedir=/var/cache/yum

debuglevel=2

logfile=/var/log/yum.log

pkgpolicy=newest

distroverpkg=redhat-release

 

[base]

name=Red Hat Linux $releasever - $basearch - Base

baseurl=http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/

 

 

[updates]

name=Red Hat Linux $releasever - Updates

baseurl=http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/updates/$releasever/

;( ;(

[hollywood63 0]

Me again this is the error that I get when trying to install myplayer.

 

 

yum install myplayer

Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)

Server: Red Hat Linux 9 - i386 - Base

Server: Red Hat Linux 9 - Updates

Finding updated packages

Downloading needed headers

getting /var/cache/yum/updates/headers/xpdf-1-2.01-11.i386.hdr

getting /var/cache/yum/updates/headers/xpdf-chinese-simplified-1-2.01-11.i386.hdr

getting /var/cache/yum/updates/headers/xpdf-japanese-1-2.01-11.i386.hdr

getting /var/cache/yum/updates/headers/xpdf-chinese-traditional-1-2.01-11.i386.hdr

getting /var/cache/yum/updates/headers/xpdf-korean-1-2.01-11.i386.hdr

Cannot find a package matching myplayer

[Admiral LSD 0]

try yum install mplayer

[Philipp 6]

Quote:

[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
pkgpolicy=newest
distroverpkg=redhat-release

[base]
name=Red Hat Linux $releasever - $basearch - Base
baseurl=http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/


[updates]
name=Red Hat Linux $releasever - Updates
baseurl=http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/updates/$releasever/

The FreshRPMs YUM repository is missing

Add the following to your yum.conf:

Quote:

[freshrpms]
name=Red Hat Linux 9 - Freshrpms
baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/redhat/9/i386/freshrpms

[hollywood63 0]

I'm sorry guys but I can not get this crap to work. ;( I tried copy and paste on the needed repository. Can't figure that out for nothing and Admiral how the hell do you change fonts.

Thanks again

[Admiral LSD 0]

Change fonts, how you mean? I was just using standard board formatting codes to highlight an area where I thought you were making a mistake. To my knowledge, there is no Linux media player called 'myplayer', the closest I can think of is 'mplayer' (a quick google search turned up something called 'myplayer' but I believe if Windows only, the site was in Japanese sho I can't be sure).

 

This is why I don't bother with RPM or any of the cheap hacks designed to make it more like a decent package management system. Here on Gentoo I just type:

 

Code:

USE="dvd" emerge mplayer

 

and everything required to get mplayer (or anything else for that matter) up and running is downloaded, compiled and installed with a minimum of fuss. Not even Debian is this simple.