How can i install VLC on fedora 6?

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yinglcs
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How can i install VLC on fedora 6?

Postby yinglcs » 05 Jan 2007 00:08

I tried install VLC via yum, but nothing was found.
Thanks for any help.

$ yum list vlc
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files

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Post subject: How can i install VLC on fedora 6?

Postby sanjay417 » 09 Jan 2007 10:07

hi yinglcs,
you need to download the src code for vlc media player from http://www.videolan.org/, build it and install it. it will work.
I installed 0.8.6a version of vlc in my system and it is working fine.
Thanks & Regards,
sanjay

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Postby pjwhite » 12 Jan 2007 20:31

hi.

if you just want a useable version of vlc then yum is fine. however it sounds like you haven't set up any other repositories. fedora can't ship with any repositories that have stuff like vlc since there are non-legal parts to it (dvdcss for instance).

install the freshrpms repo (it's easy to find out how, just search in google) and then google with that... check if it is enabled in /etc/yum.repos.d/freshrpms.repo enable=1, alternatively you can just do

yum install vlc --enablerepo=freshrpms

(this is only if you have it set up but enable=0 in the /etc/yum.repos.d/freshrpms.repo file.


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