YDL 4.1, dependency hell, codecs

[Derick Centeno]

Hi Paul

How ya doin?

If you want to point yum.conf to someplace useful, you could do worse  
than point to freshrpms.
This site always worked for me when I was fiddling with YDL 4.x.

Paul, do you know how to read the YDL mirrors as well as say reading  
the morning paper?

If you do, then writing your own yum.conf is pretty easy because then  
you know where all the mirrors are which you can use to support  
4.0/4.1.  Of course you have to make a decision within yum.conf as to  
which version of YDL you want yum.conf to point to.  Kai, has advised  
that yum.conf point only to one version of YDL within yum.conf.   
However, once that decision has been made there is no reason why you  
can't have yum.conf refer to as many mirrors containing say 4.0 as  
you wish.

Remember that the difference between 4.0 and 4.1 is great; so either  
stick with 4.0 or 4.1.  Of course, you may be in a situation that one  
machine works best with 4.0 but another works best with 4.1.  In that  
situation, there is no reason why the yum.conf on those machines  
cannot point to all the appropriate mirrors available unique to their  
requirements.

However, if you want to move onto what is current you could try  
Fedora Core 5 or 6; download the ppc versions.  The advantage is that  
as these programs are current as the designers of the programs which  
interest you (and many others) have whole new versions and may  
actually work better than what you are dealing with.  The upside is  
that many of the whizbang features are available within FC 5/6; the  
problem is that the specific support required for certain kinds of  
Mac hardware may not be.

Good Luck... Derick.

On Jan 23, 2007, at 7:18 PM, Paul Higgins wrote:

> Hi, everyone:
>
> Has anyone other than me noticed a lot of dependency hell when  
> using yum in
> YDL 4.1?  Nearly everything I've tried to install has numerous  
> problems.  At
> some point I'll probably have the nerve to try compiling some of  
> this stuff
> from scratch, or resolving the dependencies manually, but as for  
> using yum,
> it appears that a lot of even the official repos have dependency
> problems--usually involving not even having the needed  
> dependencies.  Could
> someone who's having more success than me please share their /etc/ 
> yum.conf?
>
> Also, I've noticed that several codecs needed to play some very common
> multimedia files (like .mov) are missing from Totem and other  
> players, which
> is strange, since they were there in YDL 4.0.  Any suggestions on  
> getting
> these in a reasonably easy manner?  I've done some searching and  
> found it
> rather frustrating.
>
> Thanks,
> -PRH
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