ken wrote:
On 10/23/2009 10:22 AM Sharon Kimble wrote:
2009/10/23 Ralph Angenendt <ralph.angenendt@gmail.com mailto:ralph.angenendt@gmail.com>
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 2:23 PM, ken <gebser@mousecar.com <mailto:gebser@mousecar.com>> wrote: > mplayer-1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6.i386 from freshrpms has depsolving problems freshrpms has no packages for CentOS. And never had.Thats a fedora core 6 rpm which maybe the reason why its not working properly.
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Hmmm. Okay. Too bad. Thanks for the explanation. However, I did successfully install gnumeric using yum from an RPM I got from freshrpms... a fluke, I guess.
But so mplayer isn't available from CentOS?
I was just looking at a way to prioritize repos so that freshrpms is at the bottom, i.e., so that it's sought only as a last resort: http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/Priorities. But the page doesn't quite get me all the way. How do I add an entry for freshrpms to /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo so I can specify a low priority for it?
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Ken, You should have a freshrpms.repo file, or something similar, within the /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory. Yum looks for all *.repo files and pulls from the repos listed within those files. Within each individual repo file is where you would designate the priority for it. You wont need to alter /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo to alter the priority for freshrpms. Might I suggest the rpmforge repo instead? Check out the following.
http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/RPMForge#head-20e1f6...
Others might disagree, but I've had good luck with rpmforge.
-Brian