Yup... everyone is getting hit. I feel your pain. I had to install gnome and kde completely while 'yum update' merrily announced that all was good.-------------------------------
]$ gmplayer
MPlayer 1.0pre7try2-rpm.livna.org-4.1.0 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Xeon/Celeron Foster (Family: 8, Stepping: 4)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
vo: X11 running at 1280x1024 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local display)
Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied
Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your
system startup scripts.
Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0 : No such file or directory
Can't init input joystick
Setting up LIRC support...
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support.
You will not be able to use your remote control.
[skin] file ( /usr/share/mplayer/Skin/default/skin ) not found.
Skin not found (default)
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> It seems like a minor thing to fix manually. (I don't know how.)
You can find out how if you goggle search mplayer and goto their site. I installed their latest rpm, then downloaded the complete codex package and followed the instructions to install them. Next, I dnloaded some fonts and followed their install instructions, to the tee. It works better than it did with FC4.
> But I prefer to use yum for it, in order to automate future upgrades.
Sometimes the FC team has a very full plate, like right now. So, I just grab the latest and install it and then sit back to actually enjoy using it. At some point, it'll get included in extras and yum will update it.
> And yum has the problem noted above in my previous post.