Cheers. So far so good but as you probably know yum update takes a while
I`ll post again when it`s finished or broke.
Thanks

yeah yum update takes a while to do but keep us updated on the situation if something goes wrong i'll try and find another solution to your problem

hope everything goes well

genie3251

Hi again. Thanks for that, it did the yum update ok.
I still need to solve the problem of not having a media player. Any suggestions?
I would like to get vlc working really so if you could help with that it would be great heres what i get when i try to install;

error: Failed dependencies:
arts is needed by vlc-0.8.5-1.i386
libFLAC.so.7 is needed by vlc-0.8.5-1.i386
libSDL-1.2.so.0 is needed by vlc-0.8.5-1.i386
libSDL_image-1.2.so.0 is needed by vlc-0.8.5-1.i386
libXv.so.1 is needed by vlc-0.8.5-1.i386
libartsc.so.0 is needed by vlc-0.8.5-1.i386
libaudiofile.so.0 is needed by vlc-0.8.5-1.i386
libdbus-1.so.1 is needed by vlc-0.8.5-1.i386
libesd.so.0 is needed by vlc-0.8.5-1.i386
libgnutls.so.11 is needed by vlc-0.8.5-1.i386
libgnutls.so.11(GNUTLS_REL_1_0_9) is needed by vlc-0.8.5-1.i386
libogg.so.0 is needed by vlc-0.8.5-1.i386
librsvg-2.so.2 is needed by vlc-0.8.5-1.i386
libslang-utf8.so.1 is needed by vlc-0.8.5-1.i386
libsmbclient.so.0 is needed by vlc-0.8.5-1.i386
libspeex.so.1 is needed by vlc-0.8.5-1.i386
libxpcom.so is needed by vlc-0.8.5-1.i386
libImlib2.so.1 is needed by caca-utils-0.9-1.i386
libslang-utf8.so.1 is needed by caca-utils-0.9-1.i386
libogg.so.0 is needed by ffmpeg-svn_5999-1.i386
libogg.so.0 is needed by libtheora-1.0alpha5-0.xiph.0.4.alpha5.i386
libSDL-1.2.so.0 is needed by mpeg4ip-1.4.1-1.i386
libesd.so.0 is needed by wx-gtk2-unicode-contrib-2.6.2-1.i386

I'm new to linux and managing software on it. So far i`ve only used it for some programming stuff at university. I appreciate all your help with this.

how did you try to install vlc?

I copied some code from the vlc site... I think its what ur meant to do... :-)
I`m pretty sure its only not working bcos i dont know what i`m doing and i`m also not sure why this is like a link... i didnt tell it to be...
from:

VLC media player for Fedora

yup thats what i meant but the one you were trying to install is for fedora core 4

give me a couple of minutes to find something for you

hey mintedjo,

sorry for the delay in answering your question i'm having linux problems of my own

give this site a try to install vlc i haven't tried it yet but follow the instructions and all shoulld go well

Fedora fc5 -

genie3251