Many thanks, Will try your suggestions. Regards John ----- Original Message Follows -----

A bad checksum probably means the file corrupted while you were downloading it. Possible reasons for this are:

1) a web proxy in your path (transparent or otherwise) has an incomplete copy cached 2) the file changed while you were downloading it 3) yum didn't actually finish downloading the file 4) the copy on the server is incomplete or corrupt.

To fix this, try running 'yum update' then 'yum install mplayer' when the update finishes. If that doesn't work, try adding more yum mirrors to your mirror list - I notice that your output contained comments regarding 'No more mirrors to try' etc.

As to your second question - it carried on because only one part of the download failed, the others are all intact.

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Thought I was doing fairly good, Wgot the public

key. >Copied freshrpms, fixed a parsing error but now got a >checksum problem.

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I have saved the whole drama if anyone has time to help I would apreciatte it Terminal entries follow:

[root(a)localhost john]# yum install mplayer

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http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/3/i386/freshrpms/RP MS/mplayer-1.0-0.12.20041025.1.fc3.fr.i386.rpm: >[Errno -1] Package does not match checksum >freshrpms: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try. >[root(a)localhost john]#

Also why go through the whole download if the thing fails the checksum* Regards John