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Has anybody enabled this repo?I understand that it can really mess up updates and upgrades as the dependencies are rather ..

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All, I am having a terrible time installing multi media tools like smplayer (which requires mplayer), which is not avaiable from the CentOS repos. I have installed epel.repo which containa the epel-release repo info for yum Still I cannot install m..

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yum update is giving me the following errors:# yum -y install mplayer Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, fs-snapshot, refresh-packagekit, security Setting up Install Process Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile epel/metalink |12 kB 00:00* base: CentOS.sonn.c..

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I was looking at the output of thunderbird –helpand I see there is no cli arg that makes it start with a specific profile (which can be any one of n profiles) – unless I am not reading the output properly :)I am trying to avoid having to select ..

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