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I said I would try to get the Gecko MediaPlayer onto my OLPC, and I managed in the end but like all other installations what I will describe here are the steps I think you need to reproduce and in the order that I think will work, but of course not the order in which I did it

Hopefully this is all you'll need, but please let us all know if you find flaws and additional steps neccessary.

MPlayer needs this one so download it, we will install it later:

ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/updates/7/i386/libdvdnav-4.1.1-3.fc7.i386.rpm

This one containes MPlayer so download that one too:

http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-7.rpm

Now get the gecko-mediaplayer and gnome-mplayer from dekorte's site
(http://dekorte.homeip.net/download/gecko-mediaplayer/) by downloading this rpm:

http://dekorte.homeip.net/yum/fedora/any/dekorte-release-1.2-1.noarch.rpm

Now for the installation of the repositories (please excuse my Fedora ignorance - I run KUbuntu myself normally):

> su

> rpm -i livna-release-7.rpm

> rpm -i dekorte-release-1.2-1.noarch.rpm

Then install the packages :

> yum install libdvdread.i386

> rpm -i libdvdnav-4.1.1-3.fc7.i386.rpm

> yum install mplayer.i386

> yum install gecko-mediaplayer.i386 gnome-mplayer.i386

Remember this is a low RAM, no swap device, so I recommend closing all other applications. Now I have to test it a bit, in Opera 9.5 of course