VLC for Fedora release 8.2

[carelessnomad]

Hello Everybody,

I am new to Linux, got installed a fedora - release 8.2. I am trying to install VLC player.

I am getting the following error.

[root@localhost ~]# yum install vlc
livna 100% |=========================| 2.1 kB 00:00
http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/dis...ta/repomd.xml: [Errno 12] Timeout: <urlopen error timed out>
Trying other mirror.
fedora 100% |=========================| 2.1 kB 00:00
http://download.videolan.org/pub/vid...ta/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: vlc-contrib. Please verify its path and try again


Any help is appreciated.

Thanks.
careless

[iamzen]

Follow the directions on http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f8.html to add the Livna Reposition then do the yum install vlc. The other thing, your error looks like one one that comes up in the middle of an update session or high bandwidth time which means just try it a little later. Troy

[brr872002]

mv /etc/yum.repos.d/*.* /tmp
rpm-ivh http://fedora.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/lin...8-3.noarch.rpm
rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm
yum clean all
yum -y install vlc-0.8.6c-9.lvn8

Hello and welcome. One problem you're having, or will have, is that there is no Fedora 8.2 release. Fedora doesn't release point versions so the current 'stable' version is 8, which has just been released. Any point releases are alphas/betas of the next version of Fedora, due out in approx 6 months time. So, unless you want to debug the 8.2 early beta (alpha?) I suggest you download 8 and install that then come back with your questions.

Wayne

[carelessnomad]

Thank you all for your replies.

I tried this line and i am getting the following error.

rpm-ivh http://fedora.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/li...-8-3.noarch.rpm

[root@localhost ravi]# rpm -ivh http://fedora.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/li...-8-3.noarch.rpm
Retrieving http://fedora.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/li...-8-3.noarch.rpm
error: skipping http://fedora.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/li...-8-3.noarch.rpm - transfer failed - Unknown or unexpected error
warning: u 0x95a5d48 ctrl 0x9c670f0 nrefs != 0 (fedora.tu-chemnitz.de http)

any clue as to what is wrong ?

[iamzen]

Yeah, use yum to install it and have the right repository information setup. The error says that you are trying to install a file that does not exist. Maybe you should try using the release version of Fedora 8, and not the pre-release version since the repositories are setup for the regular version and not the pre-release test versions anymore. If those links worked, you could right click over them, save the rpm file to your computer, and then install the rpm via a double click through Gnome without any problems. Troy