These packages are intended to extend the Fedora Core and … A site, located outside the U.S. and beyond the reach of … 6. MP3 Fedora won’t ship MP3-capable software because the … 1. Introduction There are some Damned Things like enabling Java and Flash in Mozilla, playing MP3 files, playing Quicktime/AVI/RealMedia/Windows Media streams, and playing encrypted DVDs that the Fedora distro folks won’t tell you how to do, either because they’re afraid of being sued under the DMCA or for various other esthetic and political

2. Packages, Tools and Repositories Modern Linuxes are rapidly moving towards a world in which physical media are used for OS installation only, with updates being fetched and installed by tools querying Internet repositories. You’ll need to know a bit about some of these tools and the repositories they get binary packages from. Fedora packages are called RPMs. Each can be installed or uninstalled as a unit, and provides some application together with any support files it needs. Some packages depend on others an application, for example, may require specific support libraries. Part of the job a package installation program does is to chase down those dependencies and install them before installing the main package. Unfortunately, RPMs can clash with each other for example, by wanting to put incompatible versions of a command or support file in place. A repository maintainer’s main job is to make sure that (a) the RPMs in his collection don’t clash with each other, and (b) all their dependencies are resolved either within his repository or some ‘base’ repository that he advertises depending on. There is one base repository for Fedora Linux maintained by the Fedora project itself, and about half a dozen extension repositories that depend on that base. These extension or “third-party” repositories are where you will get your Damned Things; they are run by volunteers independent of the Fedora Project, often located in places outside the U.S. where they will be less exposed to predatory lawyers. The extension repositories form cliques defined by who is compatible with who else….

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