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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd" [
<!ENTITY howto "http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/">
<!ENTITY mini-howto "http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/">
<!ENTITY howto "http://tldp.org/HOWTO/">
<!ENTITY mini-howto "http://tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/">
<!ENTITY home "http://www.catb.org/~esr/">
]>
@ -20,13 +20,21 @@
</author>
<revhistory>
<revision>
<revnumber>1.2</revnumber>
<date>2004-02-03</date>
<authorinitials>esr</authorinitials>
<revremark>
Typo fixes.
</revremark>
</revision>
<revision>
<revnumber>1.1</revnumber>
<date>2004-01-31</date>
<authorinitials>esr</authorinitials>
<revremark>
Dag Wieers's repository is yum-enabled, so drop apt-get out
of the picture. Add mozilla-acrobat installation. Add some
of the picture. Add mozilla-acroread installation. Add some
attack-lawyer repellant.
</revremark>
</revision>
@ -96,7 +104,7 @@ suppress my speech. You have been warned.</para>
<sect2 id="newversions"><title>New versions of this document</title>
<para>You can also view the latest version of this HOWTO on the World Wide
Web via the URL <ulink url="&howto;Fedora-Multimedia-Installation-HOWTO.html">
Web via the URL <ulink url="&howto;Fedora-Multimedia-Installation-HOWTO/">
&howto;Fedora-Multimedia-Installation-HOWTO.html</ulink>.</para>
<para>Feel free to mail any comments about this HOWTO, or additions or bug
@ -125,11 +133,12 @@ require you to use apt-get, but you should know it's there.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>yum</term>
<listitem><para>The Yellow Dog Update Manager, comes installed with Fedora
Core. It will help you download updates from the Fedora repository, and
from other repositories that carry Damned Things that Fedora won't. I
like it a bit better than apt-get (a s), as it seems to grab package list
updates automatically that apt makes you do manually.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>yim (the Yellow Dog Updater, Modified), comes installed
with Fedora Core. It will help you download updates from the Fedora
repository, and from other repositories that carry Damned Things that
Fedora won't. I like it a bit better than apt-get (a s), as it seems to
grab package list updates automatically that apt makes you do
manually.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>up2date</term>
@ -154,10 +163,11 @@ closely. Accessible via both yum and apt.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><ulink url="http://freshrpms.net/">FreshRPMs</ulink></term>
<listitem><para>Best known of the alternate-RPMs sites. Carries a
lot of stuff that hasn't yet made it into Fedora Core, but also supports
older Red Hat distros as well. The main source for apt-get. Accessible
via both yum and apt.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Best known of the alternate-RPMs sites. Carries a lot of
stuff that hasn't yet made it into Fedora Core, but also supports older Red
Hat distros as well. The main source for apt-get. Accessible via both yum
and apt. Unfortunately, it's known to have some serious library clashes
with livna and I do not recommend mixing the two.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><ulink url="http://macromedia.mplug.org/">http://macromedia.mplug.org/</ulink></term>
@ -185,11 +195,10 @@ yum fedora-us-testing-fc1 http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/yum/tes
yum livna-stable-fc1 http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/1/i386/yum/stable
yum flash-plugin http://macromedia.mplug.org/apt/fedora/1
yum dag http://apt.sw.be/redhat/fc1/en/i386/dag
yum freshrpms http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/1/i386/freshrpms
</programlisting>
<para>You might have to change <quote>1</quote> to the latest Fedora Core
version number, if that's 2 or more. After this, the command</para>
version number, if that's 2 or more.</para>
</step>
<step>
@ -219,10 +228,6 @@ baseurl=http://macromedia.mplug.org/apt/fedora/$releasever
[dag]
name=Fedora Core 1 Dag Wieers' repository
baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/redhat/fc$releasever/en/i386/dag
[freshrpms]
name=Fedora Linux $releasever - $basearch - freshrpms
baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/freshrpms
</programlisting>
</step>
</procedure>
@ -244,10 +249,17 @@ Therefore, be sure to do this:</para>
<programlisting>
rpm &#45;&#45;import http://rpm.livna.org/RPM-LIVNA-GPG-KEY
rpm &#45;&#45;import http://freshrpms.net/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.txt
rpm &#45;&#45;import http://dag.wieers.com/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
</programlisting>
<para>If you use freshrpms (which none of my recipes do, because I'm told
you can get in trouble with library-version classes when mixing it with
livna) you'll want to add this:</para>
<programlisting>
rpm &#45;&#45;import http://freshrpms.net/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.txt
</programlisting>
<para>You already have the Fedora public key as part of your Fedora Core
installation.</para>
@ -291,9 +303,6 @@ reasons they don't coordinate with Fedora as closely as one might wish. To
avoid problems, I recommend the following precautions:</para>
<orderedlist>
<listitem><para>List the Fedora and livna.org sites before other
outside sites, so they'll get checked first.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Installing or updating particular named packages with
apt-get is OK, but don't do a general upgrade using it. Use yum or up2date
instead. (None of the procedures in this HOWTO use apt-get.)</para></listitem>
@ -310,7 +319,7 @@ the procedures in this HOWTO use apt-get.)</para></listitem>
procedure described above, do this:</para>
<programlisting>
up2date flash-plugin xmms-mp3 xine totem mozilla-jre mozilla-acroread
up2date flash-plugin xmms-mp3 xine totem mozilla-j2re mozilla-acroread
</programlisting>
<para>will install Flash, MP3, mpeg/AVI/DVD-reading capability (including
@ -320,7 +329,7 @@ assuming you trust your net connection is not being compromised by a
man-in-the-middle attack:</para>
<programlisting>
up2date &#45;&#45;nosig flash-plugin xmms-mp3 xine mozilla-jre mozilla-acroread
up2date &#45;&#45;nosig flash-plugin xmms-mp3 xine mozilla-j2re mozilla-acroread
</programlisting>
<para>This won't give you RealMedia; for that, you need to do a little more
@ -351,8 +360,8 @@ Institute's patent license terms are not compatible with the GPL.</para>
probably have to make <filename>/dev/dsp</filename> be owned by
yourself before you can play any sounds at all.</para>
<para>Assuming you've got your yum configuration pointed at livna.org and
FreshRPMs, the command</para>
<para>Assuming you've got your yum configuration pointed at livna.org the
command</para>
<programlisting>
up2date xmms-mp3
@ -368,7 +377,10 @@ Select "MPEG Layer 1/2/3 Placeholder Plugin" and uncheck [ ] Enable Plugin.
With this placeholder gone, xmms will plug in xmms-mp3 automatically.</para>
<para>If you want simple MP3 sound editing, I'm a big fan of <ulink
url='http://audacity.sourceforge.net/'>Audacity</ulink>. The command</para>
url='http://audacity.sourceforge.net/'>Audacity</ulink> (but be
aare that some newer Audacity releases, after about 9.1, have known
problems with ALSA and with the AC97-compatible sound chips now built
into many motherboards). The command</para>
<programlisting>
up2date audacity
@ -391,11 +403,11 @@ so Fedora and most other Linux distributions won't carry it.</para>
the following command will Java-enable your browser:</para>
<programlisting>
yum mozilla-jre
yum install mozilla-j2re
</programlisting>
<para>You can test your Java plugin at Sun's <ulink
url="http:://www.java.sun.com/applets/">Applets</ulink> page. Note that
url="http://www.java.sun.com/applets/">Applets</ulink> page. Note that
some of these applets (Escher and Starfield, when I checked) appear to be
broken. BouncingHeads makes a good test.</para>
@ -410,7 +422,7 @@ therefore a good bet that Adobe's official Acrobat plugin will help.
Install it with</para>
<programlisting>
yum mozilla-acrobat
yum install mozilla-acroread
</programlisting>
<para>Adobe's Acrobat plugin is proprietary, so Fedora and other
@ -444,7 +456,7 @@ device has to be readable by you.</para>
<para>xine has an elaborate GUI of its own, but most of the guts of the
program are in a callable library and there are several other front ends
for it floating around (none of them shipped with FC1). One of these is
gzine, a Gnome front end which as of January 2004 doesn't have an active
gxine, a Gnome front end which as of January 2004 doesn't have an active
maintainer. Another (which I haven't seen but have been told good things
about) is the <ulink
url='http://kaffeine.sourceforge.net/'>kaffeine</ulink> front end for
@ -540,7 +552,7 @@ up2date gxine
</programlisting>
<para>should also in theory give your Mozilla the ability to stream AVI,
QuickTime, Windows Media, and MPEG audio/video files throgh gzine. As of
QuickTime, Windows Media, and MPEG audio/video files throgh gxine. As of
January 2004 (xine-0.9.22, gxine-0.3.3, mozilla-1.4.1), this works about
as well as mplayerplug-in, which is to say not at all well. I've seen
some success with MPEG files, but often with audio dropouts.</para>

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Fedora-Multimedia-Installation-HOWTO</ULink>,
<CiteTitle>Fedora Multimedia Installation HOWTO</CiteTitle>
</Para><Para>
<CiteTitle>Updated: Jan 2004</CiteTitle>.
<CiteTitle>Updated: Feb 2004</CiteTitle>.
How to get various proprietary and restricted multimedia Damned
Things (Flash, MP3, Java, mpeg, avi, Real Media, Windows Media)
working under Fedora. </Para>

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Fedora-Multimedia-Installation-HOWTO</ULink>,
<CiteTitle>Fedora Multimedia Installation HOWTO</CiteTitle>
</Para><Para>
<CiteTitle>Updated: Jan 2004</CiteTitle>.
<CiteTitle>Updated: Feb 2004</CiteTitle>.
How to get various proprietary and restricted multimedia Damned
Things (Flash, MP3, Java, mpeg, avi, Real Media, Windows Media)
working under Fedora. </Para>