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This may sound stupid, but I am relatively naive about all this: I have followed directions regarding installed vlc in FC5, but at this time I cannot find the vlc application anywhere.

I have a laptop with no CD,DVD-ROM, so have added a DVD-RW via a usb port. I mounted the /dev/scd0 under /media/somename and I see the DVD files there...but since I do not find the binaries (in windoz, the executables) anywhere, and there is no icon on the desktop or listed under applications, I don't know how to start the player/DVD.

Please let me know what info you need to help, if any...any ideas welcome

[I have had livna repository access and update thru yum...I do not know if I have the required file (some xxxxcss file), but issued a yum install vlc command just now, so I should be ok, yes?]

Thanks in advance for any info

I have followed directions regarding installed vlc in FC5,

You mean this:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-fedora.html ?

but at this time I cannot find the vlc application anywhere.

What gives the command "which vlc" in a terminal ? If it finds vlc you can simply start it with "vlc" or if you want to watch a DVD by: or maybe:

sorry was so lacking in details -- no excuse but being tired -- the box froze during data collection for the message, I appreciate your taking time to answer despite all

Here is a rundown of latest activities with vlc:

I installed vlc on this particular machine 2 years ago, and I thought it worked (I use the CF-50 laptop for reasons other than videos -- have vlc on other machines and it works well)

However, when tried to access vlc on this machine to view a DVD, since I did not see an app, I tried to update the installation. I still keep getting the message that the livna baseurl was missing (incorrect?). Jumping thru livna info was messy for me...but I finally resorted ot original repo info.

I found the page you quote(d) along the way :].

Before finding it tho, I downloaded and installed, using yum, an earlier version I found: vlc-0.8.4a-1.lvn5.src.rpm. This was done after installing (with yum) a downloaded livna-release-5.rpm.

Not that it matters, I also, in case they proved helpful sometime, found development libraries
libdvbpsi-0.1.2-0.fc5.rf.i386.rpm
libdvbpsi-devel-0.1.2-0.fc5.rf.i386.rpm
as well as
videolan-client-0.8.5-2.fc5.i386.rpm from videolan.org link you sent (found it under fc4/5 i386 (non 64 bit version))
(their page (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-fedora.html) mentions this is latest version that works on fc4 (5?) is: 0.8.5 (and it updates, yes?)


Results from command which vlc are as follows
]# which vlc
/usr/bin/which: no vlc in (/usr/lib/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/root/bin)


I am confused about this client...
Hope this is more clear -- thanks in advance for any info

To Whom,

I replaced FC5 with FC7 (much needed for other reasons), but believe the problem was probably hooked up with the old link to the livna repositories which I couldn't seem to change (?)

With the correct livna address, the yum install of the videolan-client went well. I haven't seen a video yet, but vlc client is installed and opens and hope this means all is well...

livna http://rpm.livna.org
> rpm -ihv http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-7.rpm

> yum -y install videolan-client

cheers