[CentOS] Re Centos 7.2 Repos

Tue May 17 17:16:39 UTC 2016
jd1008 <jd1008 at gmail.com>


On 05/17/2016 10:16 AM, Scott Robbins wrote:
> On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 04:53:11PM +0100, John Hodrien wrote:
>> On Tue, 17 May 2016, jd1008 wrote:
>>
>>> One of the enabled repos is centos-media.repo
>>> It fails:
>> If you have the DVD repo enabled, and don't provide it with the DVD, it will
>> fail.  I'd disable that repo, as it suggests, and just use the network repos.
>>
> In case it isn't clear, media, in this case, refers to a mounted DVD.
> You're not the first to be confused by it.  Once installation is complete,
> and you're not using the install DVD for anything, disable or remove the
> media-repo.
>
> For MULTImedia, as in mplayer and various other things to play music and
> video, the simple way is to install the nux-desktop repo.  I believe that
> requires the EPEL repo as well.
>
> Once you have the nux-desktop repo installed (see the CentOS wiki in the
> HowTos package management or something with package in it for instructiosn
> on installing the nux repo), you can then run yum install smplayer.  It can
> be frustrating when you're new to it.
>
>
>
Thanx.