mgschnel wrote:this is the newest version (vlc-1.0.2 tarbz2)
Like I said in my in my post I extracted it to my my desktop and have the folder, I am using YDL6.1 and am new
to installing programs in linux and would like to learn how. Do I need to the source code and compile it?
Hmm - that actually sounds like the source code to me. As bonedome said, building VLC from source on the PS3 is tricky.
mgschnel wrote:Can you suggest any information on learning to install
programs in linux.
Yellow Dog uses on-line software repositories to automate software installs. We call these "repos".
YDL comes with a number of repos pre-installed - but these repos are limited to pure open-source software - with no copyright infringement issues. Unfortunately, most media formats - MP4, MP3, etc. - don't fall under this category.
So - we normally add a couple of extra repos to allow us to download VLC, etc.
We have a post here that discusses how to set this up:
Howto: Install software (the easy way) YDL 6After you add these extra repos, you should be able to use the Add/Remove Software utility to install VLC.
Or, from a terminal window -
as root user:
yum install vlcwill do the same thing as the GUI.
The nice thing about Add/Remove Software (aka pirut) - or the command line equivalent YUM - is that they use the repos to find all of the program dependencies, and automatically install them as well. So - you don't need to manually install all of the sub-programs that VLC depends on - the utilities will do that for you.
Cheers,
Paul