vlc on mandrake 9.2

[da13ve]

I need help! I am new to installing on linux, never had sucess. I don't understand what to do. I tried to install the newest version of vlc player and it said on their site for mandrake 9.2:

To install the latest VLC packages, add the following sources for either Mandrake 9.1, 9.2 or Cooker (you can use Easy urpmi for that):

contrib from the core distribution;
plf (Penguin Liberation Front) from the external add-ons.
Then install the required packages with urpmi:

# urpmi libdvdcss2 libdvdplay0 wxvlc vlc-plugin-a52 vlc-plugin-ogg vlc-plugin-mad


I clicked on the urpmi and it took me to a site that you click on servers to download certain things that it required and I chose locations and then clicked next and put the command line in. After it all it did nothing. I never saw things downloading or anything. Help!

 

[flugh]

Per the Easy urpmi page (nice tool there!), run this command as root:

# urpmi.addmedia plf ftp://knight.zarb.org/pub/plf/mandrake/9.2 with hdlist.cz

THEN do the:

# urpmi libdvdcss2 libdvdplay0 wxvlc vlc-plugin-a52 vlc-plugin-ogg vlc-plugin-mad

You have to first add the repository as a 'media', so urpmi knows where to look, what it's getting, etc. 'hdlist.cz' is a (gzipped?) file that has everything urpmi needs to know to make package and dependancy installation easy.

After adding the location to look for packages (urpmi calls them 'media'), you can then install packages available at that media via 'urpmi'.

I've used plf packages for the last year I guess. Never had a problem out of them, worked like a champ. DVD playback and all. A must-have for Mandrake users!

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JBR

 

[da13ve]

how do you install the urpmi package? Or is it already there.

 

[flugh]

If it's not already installed, you can do:

rpm -ivh ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.2/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/urpmi-4.4-37mdk.noarch.rpm

Would probably be best to do it off the CDs if you have them, as you need at least these package to support it:

        webfetch is needed by urpmi-4.4-37mdk
        perl-Locale-gettext >= 1.01-7mdk is needed by urpmi-4.4-37mdk
        rpmtools >= 4.3-6mdk is needed by urpmi-4.4-37mdk
        perl-URPM >= 0.94 is needed by urpmi-4.4-37mdk
        perl-base >= 2:5.8.1 is needed by urpmi-4.4-37mdk
        perl-base is needed by urpmi-4.4-37mdk
        perl(Locale::gettext) is needed by urpmi-4.4-37mdk
        perl(URPM) is needed by urpmi-4.4-37mdk
        perl(URPM::Resolve) is needed by urpmi-4.4-37mdk

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JBR