yum install mplayer
Posted Apr 6th, 2009 by ConorWho would have thought that it would be so much bother just to install mplayer?
yum install mplayer
Oh my god. It doesn’t work.
I just re-installed Fedora 10 last week and didn’t get around to installing mplayer until now. I can distinctly remember that when I did it on my older installation it installed without a glitch.
Anyhow this time I just sat there and scratched my head for a while. I never really made a decent attempt to do anything about it until now – enough became enough! I want my music back!
Ok lets start with why this is happening in the first place. You see recently livna (an rpm repository) merged with two other repositories and formed rpmfusion. But linva still exists. It still has some packages that rpmfusion doesn’t, don’t ask me why! So there is an easy way around the problem; install both of the damn things!
yum install livna
Click here to download rpmfusion F 8,9,10.
Then simple as:
yum install mplayer
and hey presto!
I use mplayer for everything, but Bronwyn is fond of Amarok – you might try that as well.
I have used almost every player that I can find and I prefer mplayer over all of them! The main reason is that you don’t have to go to the bother of importing/exporting songs etc. And I find that other programs try to just take control over your music – where as I like to be in control of my music!