[Randall]

I get alot of questions like. How to do I install mp3 support and how do I play a dvd movie in Fc4. Well I have a simple how to to help you play that movie and or mp3.

First run this command as su(root). This will install the livna rpms wich have tons of apps

rpm -ihv http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/4/i386/RPMS.lvn/livna-release-4-0.lvn.7.4.noarch.rpm

Second Run this. freashrpms also have a lot of a huge libary of apps

rpm -ihv http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/4/i386/RPMS.freshrpms/freshrpms-release-1.1-1.fc.noarch.rpm

Now lets install the Mp3 plugins

yum -y install xmms-mp3 gstreamer-plugins-mp3 libmad libid3tag

Now if you want a CD ripper I like grip its has a nice gui and it works.

yum -y install grip

Now lets install the Flash Plugin

vi /etc/yum.repos.d/flash.repo

paste the following into that blank file

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[macromedia]name=Macromedia for i386 Linux
baseurl=http://macromedia.mplug.org/rpm/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://macromedia.mplug.org/FEDORA-GPG-KEY

yum -y install flash-plugin

Now lets get some dvd action. this will install xine and everything else you need to play dvds. note this will install dvd libraries so you can use dvd with any other program that supports dvd. I just find that xine to be nice.

yum -y install xine xine-lib xine-skins

Now lets say you want to play a QuickTime, AVI or ASF well mplayer will do that.

yum -y --disablerepo=livna install mplayer mplayer-skins mplayer-fonts

Now for the windows 32 codecs. This will install everything you need to play most everything you can think of.

wget http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/essential-20050412.tar.bz2
gtar xjvf essential-20050412.tar.bz2
mkdir /usr/local/lib/win32
mv essential-20050412/* /usr/local/lib/win32

Now lets install the mpayer plugin for Internet Browsers

yum -y install mplayerplug-in

Now lets install Java

For the newest version of java. Go to Sun http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp  and download the Jre self extracting rpm. (referred to as JRE 5.0 Update 4  includes the JVM technology.The J2SE Runtime Environment (JRE) allows end-users to run Java applications. )

If you want a painless install download from the link below
[URL=http://jdl.sun.com/webapps/download/AutoDL?BundleId=10148]Download Java[/URL]
chmod +x jre-1_5_0_04-linux-i586-rpm.bin
./jre-1_5_0_04-linux-i586-rpm.bin
rpm -ivh jre-1_5_0_04-linux-i586-rpm --nodeps
unlink /usr/bin/java
ln -s /usr/java/jre1.5.0_04/bin/java /usr/bin/java
ln -s /usr/java/jre1.5.0_04/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins

to verify Java is properly installed in Firefox type

about:plugins

in the address bar, scroll down and you should see this

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Java™ Plug-in 1.5.0_04-b05

File name: libjavaplugin_oji.so
Java™ Plug-in 1.5.0_04

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
application/x-java-vm Java Yes
application/x-java-applet Java Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.1 Java Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.1.1 Java Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.1.2 Java Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.1.3 Java Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.2 Java Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.2.1 Java Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.2.2 Java Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.3 Java Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.3.1 Java Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.4 Java Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.4.1 Java Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.4.2 Java Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.5 Java Yes
application/x-java-applet;jpi-version=1.5.0_04 Java Yes
application/x-java-bean Java Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.1 Java Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.1.1 Java Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.1.2 Java Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.1.3 Java Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.2 Java Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.2.1 Java Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.2.2 Java Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.3 Java Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.3.1 Java Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.4 Java Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.4.1 Java Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.4.2 Java Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.5 Java Yes
application/x-java-bean;jpi-version=1.5.0_04 Java Yes

Now lets say your have windows xp and want to access the information. this will allow your read it only. and you have to do this everytime you update your kernel.

yum -y install kernel-module-ntfs

Now this should get you started happy Fc4ing

This post has been edited by anyweb: 29 November 2005 - 09:59 AM

[anyweb]

fantastic thanks randall !

i really hope you do more like this

moved to Fedora and pinned

cheers

anyweb

[anyweb]

for some reason livna updates got confused on my fc4 box,

this resulted in up2date failing to work at all and always erroring out complaining about livna whether livna was selected or not from 'available updates'

to fix this I had to do as follows:-

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[root@localhost ~]# rpm -e livna-release-4-0.lvn.5.4
[root@localhost ~]# rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org....7.4.noarch.rpm
Retrieving http://rpm.livna.org....7.4.noarch.rpm
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:livna-release ########################################### [100%]

the above should remove the 'old' version of livna's update RPM and replace it with the current one from here http://rpm.livna.org.../i386/RPMS.lvn/

after the above is done you should be able to run up2date successfully again,

i've replaced the old Livna RPM mentioned in Randall's howto above with the current one (at time of writing dec/2005)

which is http://rpm.livna.org....7.4.noarch.rpm

cheers
anyweb

[fedoracore4]

I don't have any idea what I'm doing but I keep getting "no match arguement" "nothing to do".

For example...

I tried inputting yum -y install xine xine-lib xine-skins in a terminal as root and it seemed like it was going good until I got...

No Match for argument: xine
No Match for argument: xine-lib
No Match for argument: xine-skins
Nothing to do

Do I really just type in those commands? Shouldn't I download some file to install or something?

[anyweb]

hi did you follow all the steps in the tutorial above ?

cheers

anyweb