try to install GNASH

[Paul Higgins]

Hi, Derick:

I am certainly interested in how you've set up your YDL 5 machine to use the 
Fedora extras, etc. and I am sure others are as well.  Would you be willing 
to share your config file and how you accomplished this?

Thanks,
-PRH

On Saturday 08 September 2007 17:00, Derick Centeno wrote:
> Buona Serra, Sacarde!
>
> And there my Italian ends.
>
> In my opinion, the best way to do what you are attempting is to have
> yum sort out the dependencies needed for you.  Depending upon which
> version of YDL you are using you will have to modify yum.conf (for YDL
> 4 and earlier) or yum.repos.d directory (for YDL 5) so that the
> programs available within Fedora extras are visible and available to
> yum.  I don't believe that gnash is part of the standard yum library
> reference; in other words when you install YDL yum can't see gnash
> because it has no information about it.  You need to modify either
> yum.conf or the yum.repos.d directory to tell yum where to look.
>
> On my system I'm running YDL 5 and I've made the modifications
> necessary so that yum knows where to find programs which reside in
> Fedora extras.  If you want the instructions unique to YDL 5 allowing
> yum to find anything residing within Fedora extras let me know, and I'll
> share them here.  To illustrate the point however, once the
> modification is done you should be able to do as I did.  Here is a
> printout of my invoking yum to search for gnash, note the wild card *
> symbol which is very effective when you are looking for something you
> don't know the complete spelling of or if you don't know exactly how a
> program was named:
>
> [aguila at arakus ~]$ sudo yum search "gnash*"
> Password:
> Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> Searching Packages:
> Setting up repositories
> extras
> [1/4] extras                    100% |=========================|  951
> B    00:00
> fedora-extras
> [2/4] fedora-extras             100% |=========================| 1.1
> kB    00:00
> updates
> [3/4] updates                   100% |=========================|  951
> B    00:00
> base
> [4/4] base                      100% |=========================| 1.1
> kB    00:00 Reading repository metadata in from local files
>
>
> gnash.ppc                                0.7.2-2.fc5
> fedora-extras Matched from:
> gnash
> http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/
>
>
> gnash-klash.ppc                          0.7.2-2.fc5
> fedora-extras Matched from:
> gnash-klash
> The gnash flash movie player plugin for Konqueror.
> http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/
>
>
> gnash-plugin.ppc                         0.7.2-2.fc5
> fedora-extras Matched from:
> gnash-plugin
> The gnash flash movie player plugin for firefox or mozilla.
> http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/
> [aguila at arakus ~]$
>
>
> Notice that yum searches whatever library it knows about to find this
> or any other program.  When a program is found which matches what you
> instructed it to find, then it tells you what it is and where it is.
> The next step is up to you. If it was me, and I wanted
> everything related to gnash, then I would tell yum:
>
> sudo yum install "gnash*"
>
> Normally yum works exclusively within superuser; it is working within
> user mode because of I included my username within the sudoer file,
> allowing me to execute sudo which allows superuser access for a short
> period of time (usually enough to execute normally restricted superuser
> commands) and then returns me automatically to normal user mode without
> superuser access.
>
> Remember that although yum can install and do many things for you
> saving you from going insane searching for dependencies (or worse
> having to build, compile and separately link and install each one), you
> must inform yum first regarding where to look.
>
> Buona Fortuna...