[Wylug-help] Infernal machines

[Dave Whiteley]

On Thursday 03 April 2008 21:30:38 glennschultz at talktalk.net wrote:
>  G'day!
>
> I've got Fedora on my machine (wasn't exactly intentional!) and it seems to
> do everything I ask it to so it's staying as a welcome guest.? The only
> problem is that the media players don't work - I've downloaded realplayer
> and got nothing to play, it just doesn't open at all when I click the
> icon.? I've tried typing realplayer in the terminal but still get nothing.?
> When I tried to d/load it again thinking that might work I got a message
> saying that realplayer was already installed which is what I get when I try
> to d/load mplayer.? When I try to play video clips in Firefox the mplayer
> seems to be working and says 'download complete' and claims that it is
> getting a playlist but then says 'stopped' and that's it.? I've asked 42%
> of the world population (some of whom were actually Linux users!) and now
> have an idea that this may be caused by having some of the software
> downloaded from Livna and some from somewhere else.? Apparently this can
> cause problems with dependencies.? How! (in language suitable for a 11 year
> old) do I check if this is the case, resolve it if it is and how do I
> remove software?? Every time I've clicked on the add/remove software option
> the machine gives me a list of software available to add but no option to
> remove anything already on the machine.
>
> Any help anyone can give will be gratefully rec'd as my youngest recently
> wanted to watch a trailer for 'Spiderwick' and now claims to be traumatised
> for life as a result of not being able to!!
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Glenn

As a start I might look at:-
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Fedora-Multimedia-Installation-HOWTO/x82.html

Hope this helps.

Dave
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