[root(a)localhost john]# rpm -Uvh mplayer-1.0-0.10.pre4.1.fc2.fr.i386.rpm mplayer-1.0-0.10.pre4.1.fc2.fr.i386.rpm: not an rpm package (or package manifest): [root(a)localhost john]# Do I need to redownload the programme?? John..

John, There are some really good front ends for the process of downloading RPM's and all their dependencies. There is one called 'yum' that comes with Fedora Core - we used it to update FC1 at the installfest. Since you want to use FreshRPMs, copy and paste the following to your /etc/yum.conf (as root) [freshrpms] name=FreshRPMs baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/freshrpm s/ http://ftp.us2.freshrpms.net/linux/freshrpms/ayo/fedora/linux/$releasever/$b... Then, if you do a 'yum install mplayer', it will update data from all the yum sources it knows about (in this case, the default Fedora sources, and the newly added FreshRPMs) and it will find the best match and install it. What is good about this is if you got mplayer to install from that RPM, it would probably abort and say "mplayer depends on ffmpeg, lirc, nvidia-devel" etc - a whole bunch of other packages you have to have in order to make mplayer work. If you use yum, it will automatically calculate what it needs to get to fulfil these dependencies, and will download everything you need. Remember also that Fedora Core 2 is out, and you might want to upgrade to that before going too much further (if you haven't already) because it has newer packages, and the people like FreshRPMs who package stuff for Fedora have in some cases stopped updating their FC1 packages. Ask on list for a copy of the cds. If you get yum working OK and decide you like it, check out http://www.fedorafaq.org/#installsoftware - you can download a yum.conf with a lot more sites in it. Note that by default FreshRPMs isn't enabled in this config; you'll have to edit the file and remove the #'s at the beginning of the FreshRPMs lines. Craig