On 11/18/05, Rony Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rony Bill wrote: > A query: Is > is necessary to download an entire list of softwares from yum > repositories or whenever I want to I stall a package, I simply query yum > for that package update only instead of downloading the entire list?
No, it is not necessary to download the entire list to install a package. Use yum -c install [package-name] to search a package in the yum cache and then install. yum is quite slow as compared to apt-get. That is one of the the major reasons why apt-get rocks. On 11/17/05, Rony Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >can anyone who has actually successfully >*installed FC4 along with fully working multimedia* please give a >procedure list of how this was done? If you are using an x86 machine, I dont think there is anything you cant run on your machine through FC4. As I have been saying for so long, use yum to install gstreamer-plugins and xine-libs. Also, download w32codecs to play Windoze Media and other formats. I think w32codecs is also available via yum on some repository, if you dont find it download it from rpm.pbone.net<http://rpm.pbone.net>and instsll manually. You can also download Real Player for Linux from its site or from rpm.pbone.net <http://rpm.pbone.net> . You can get Macromedia Flash plugin from yum. I too recommend you to use yumex as it gives you an interface using which you can search for packages you need easily. I dont think I am missing anything here, am I ? -- Regards, Sanket Medhi. -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
