james(a)westexe.demon.co.uk wrote:
clint(a)penguinsolutions.org recommended:
># yum install libdvd* libmad* totem*
Bill Tetens replied:
>I tried another Yum update and it told me that those three items were
>not available so I assure they are installed.
No, not available means not available.
If a package doesn't exist in any repositories yum knows about, you get
something like this:
[root@howells root]# yum install a-non-existant-package
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base
Server: Fedora Extras
Server: Fedora Extras (non-US)
Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Released Updates
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
Cannot find a package matching a-non-existant-package
No actions to take
If it's installed, you get something like this:
[root@howells root]# yum install glibc
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base
Server: Fedora Extras
Server: Fedora Extras (non-US)
Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Released Updates
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
glibc is installed and is the latest version.
No actions to take
Make sure that you have suitable repositories in your /etc/yum.conf
file: at least fedora.us and
rpm.livna.org.
Look at
http://fedorafaq.org/#FedoraYumRepos for more details, or ask
here.
HTH,
James.
Below is the text I get when I try to install libdvd* libmad* totem*.
The first time I got a lot of dowloading and installing and as far as I
could tell everything was downloaded.
[root@workgroup root]# yum install libdvd* libmad*
totem*
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base
Server: Dag APT Repository
retrygrab() failed for:
http://dag.atrpms.net/fedora/2/en/i386/dag/headers/header.info
Executing failover method
Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Released Updates
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
Cannot find a package matching libdvd*
Cannot find a package matching libmad*
Cannot find a package matching totem*
No actions to take
the
http://dag.atrpma.net etc above I have no idea what it is. Below is
the alternative repositories that I got off a site that had a file
stating it is a yum.conf for fedora core. It lists the complete file
for a yum.core and also included the DAG file that I used and is shown
below.
[dag]
name=Dag APT Repository
baseurl=http://dag.freshrpms.net/fedora/$releasever/en/$basearch/dag
http://dag.atrpms.net/fedora/$releasever/en/$basearch/dag
http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/freshrpms/pub/dag/fedora/$releasever/en/$basearc...
I just noticed that I did not add one line below the above DAG file as
follows:
##gpgcheck=1
Don't know is that is necessary or not since I don't know what it means.
Hope what I have supplied is helpful.