Re: FC4 mp3 support..... need help

"Bryan J. Smith" <[email protected]> Sat, 01 Apr 2006 08:02:26 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.amd64
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 07:55 +0100, kallol maji wrote:
> I have installed FC4 recently and I am a first time Linux user.
> I know Linux doesn't support mp3 format .

Umm, Linux very much _does_ support MP3, and has virtually since day 1!
But once someone started enforcing the MP3 patent, it was left out for
legal reasons since Fedora Core 1.

I use "lame" to encode and the "xmms-mp3" package to play.  _Both_ are
available from Livna.ORG, which is not only designed for Fedora Core,
but _unlike_other_ respositories, co-exists with Fedora Extras.

Most other 3rd party repsitories _break_ Fedora Extras.  Not Livna.ORG.

> We need to download some softwares . Can someone plz suggest from
> where can I download these packages.

The instructions on how to setup YUM to automagically pull packages from
Livna.ORG is here:  
  http://rpm.livna.org/  

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