best way or most funny/challenging way to update fedora 16

[freedomvikrant]

hi recently i just installed fedora 16 on my laptop
after a week of struggle i was able to configure yum server on it


now when i tried any media player they are not able to play any media file neither audio nor video


what to do ??

i also download one rpm file from the internet of vlc player but when iinstalled it it says something like that architecture not matched

how will i come to know that how to match the architecture of my existing rpms packages with the packages which i willl download form the internet from time to time.

[hadrons123]

Read these documents. You might get some idea.

[marriedto51]

And if you use yum, you (almost) never need to worry about the architecture.

If you manually download an rpm for something not in the Fedora repositories, then first type

uname -i

in a terminal. Most likely it will give you "x86_64" or "i686". You then need to have rpm files that match that architecture; note that all of i386, i486, i586 and i686 can be installed on an i686 system, but x86_64 can't. Also, some rpms have "noarch" in the name, which is short for "no architecture" and really means "suitable for any architecture".

[freedomvikrant]

thank you sir !!!!!!!!!!