By the way, it makes it much easier if you think of this activity as a fun activity... and if you are not in a hurry. I've had to install VLC several times. Most of my installation problems were due to rushing through the installation.
Installation notes:
Everything is done in the terminal.
Alt + F2
check run in terminal
click on run
Until I discovered the above commands, I used to open up my terminal from the Advanced Menu by right clicking on the desktop and selecting Terminal. (To enable the advanced menu see http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/09/05 ... page2.html --Note I have not tested the other tips shown, I have only tested the enabling of Advanced Menu.)
A) Once you have your terminal opened up, go to
http://macles.blogspot.com/2008/11/inst ... linux.html
(if you want to see where I found the code)
B) Copy and Paste these commands into the terminal:
1)
sudo rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
then press the enter key and wait until loading is finished. (NOTE: I messed it up once by typing in the terminal before the code was loaded/processed). Wait until you see the the user prompt again.
NOTE: The code has finished running when you see the following:
[user@localhost ~]$
2)
sudo rpm -Uvh http://rpms.kwizart.net/kwizart-release-8.rpm
then press the enter key and wait until loading is finished
3)
sudo yum install --enablerepo=kwizart-testing vlc vlc-core mozilla-vlc
then press the enter key and wait until loading is finished (This one takes some time.) Do not press any key until all the code is loaded.
You will see the following error message:
Error: Missing Dependency: libpulse.so.0(PULSE_0) is needed by package vlc
Error: Missing Dependency: libdc1394.so.22 is needed by package ffmpeg-libs
Error: Missing Dependency: libdvdnav.so.4 is needed by package vlc-core
C) At this point, go to:
http://macles.blogspot.com/2008/09/upda ... ories.html
(if you want to see where I found the code)
and copy and paste the following command into the terminal to download the missing dependency files:
1)
sudo yum install fedora-release
then press the enter key and wait until loading is finished --this loading/processing of code takes even longer!
2)
You will then be prompted several times to select y/N. Type y and press the enter key
When you see Complete! you are almost done.
D)
Then go to
http://macles.blogspot.com/2008/11/inst ... linux.html
(if you want to see where I found the code)
and copy and run the following code:
sudo sed s/%U// -i /usr/share/applications/livna-vlc.desktop
dca add 12 "file='/usr/share/applications/livna-vlc.desktop'"
E)
Then in your terminal enter
sudo su
(this may require a password)
This gives you the ability to process the install vlc command
you should now see
[user@localhost ~]$ sudo su
[root@localhost user]#
type your command:
yum install vlc
this will install 35 packages & other stuff.
Reboot your computer. You should now see the vlc icon.
Have fun installing VLC!
P.S. I was not able to uninstall Media Master -- even when running the code shown in other postings. As suggested in another post, I just moved the icon out of the way by dragging the icons I wanted to see if front of the Media Master icon.
Have a great Linux 2009!
