Installing Programs in FC3

[NyteCrawler]

Can anyone give me some good instructions on how to install programs using fedora core 3? I'm trying to use the yum install command, but it never works. Any help is appreciated.

 

[nsafreak]

Depends upon the program you're trying to install and how you downloaded it. If you downloaded a rpm file (recommended for newbs) you do a rpm -i <filename>. If you happened to download a tarball (file with a tar.gz extention) you typically want to uncompress it by using the command gzip -dc <filename>|tar -xvf- then once it has unzipped go into the directory and likely run a ./config . You'll probably have to do more than that, possibly a make and make install for it to compile all of the sources. Clarification on what programs would be appreciated as well.

 

[NyteCrawler]

I'm trying to install divx right now. I got the rpm and tried rpm -i <filename> but it give me an error : v3 dsa signature: BAD, key ID. I have also tried using the yum command but it gives the same error.

 

[Nothinman]

If the signature is bad, you probably don't want to install it. Either you have an old keyring, the file is corrupt or it's a hacked version signed with a fake key.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Try updating (yum update).

 

[kamper]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Try updating (yum update).

So far as I can tell, there are no divx packages in the default repositories. He'd have to find another repository if he wants to use yum.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: kamper

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Try updating (yum update).

So far as I can tell, there are no divx packages in the default repositories. He'd have to find another repository if he wants to use yum.

That's silly.

 

[Nothinman]

That's silly.

RH controls FC and last I checked they didn't even ship a MP3 decoder because of potential US legal problems with the library, I'm sure DivX is the same since it started out as a reverse engineered codec. I believe Xvid is really free and should play anything encoded with DivX.

 

[kamper]

I don't see any xvid packages either. That's just the default repositories though; Dag Wieers' repo (which drag likes to promote) has a number of packages for each.

 

[slpaulson]

Also, are you running it under x86 or x86-64? If you're running x86-64, you might be sol on a lot of stuff. At least that was my experience.

 

[NyteCrawler]

Thanks guys, I ran the yum update, put dag wieers' repo in the yum.conf, imported the gpg key, and it installed fine. Thanks a lot!