Help with Fedora Core 2

[Chris466]

I have Fedora Core 2 installed on my laptop.

I have already installed VLC on my windows partitian and would now like to install it on my Fedora core 2 partition.

However I'm a bit of a Linux novice so I'm not sure which files to download, and once I've downloaded them and unzipped them using the command lines on the website how do I run VLC when I put a DVD in.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Cheers,

Chris.

[pjhealy]

The file locations are somewhat arbitrary; you can download the tarball anywhere, then extract it and install the RPMs.

However, I know it helps to have some idea of safe directories to install things in... I like to create a directory under /usr/local called 'rpms'. It's the place I install things that aren't part of the stock Fedora install. So try these steps:

(either login as root, or use 'su' to become root)
mkdir -p /usr/local/rpms
cd /usr/local/rpms
wget http://download.videolan.org/pub/videol ... ary.tar.gz

gunzip -c vlc-binary.tar.gz | tar -xvf -

rpm -U vlc/* --force

Then you should be all set. Good luck!

[Guest]

Cheers I've followed your instructions and it seems to have worked fine. But now how do I open vlc?


If it helps my "CD and DVD" Preferences are set so when a DVD is inserted the command "vlc dvd:%d" is used. But nothing happens.

Thanks again.