Adding Multimedia Extras to Fedora 7

[Corkster]

Thanks Randall for reminding me to do this :)Please note this is for the 32 bit installs, if you find this article useful, then I'd appreciate if you'd digg it !

 

As root (su -) install the current livna rpm to get access to livna's goodies

Code:

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

 

Now let's add freshrpm's to that list:

Code:

# [rpm -ivh http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/7/i386/RPMS.freshrpms/freshrpms-release-1.1-1.fc.noarch.rpm

OK done. Now lets have some fun:

• Let's install the MP3 plug-ins (currently gstreamer-plugins-mp3 is BAD so will error, but try again in a day or two):
  
  Code:

  # yum -y install xmms-mp3 gstreamer-plugins-mp3 libmad libid3tag
  
  
  
   
  
  
  
  
• Let's install the Flash plug-in. Use vi (or any other editor) to create a new file as root:
  
  Code:

  # vi /etc/yum.repos.d/flash.repo
  
  
  
   
  Now copy the text below and paste it into the new file (press i to INSERT text...):
  
  
  
  Code:

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

  # yum -y install flash-plugin
  
  
  
   
  
  
  
  
• Next up for multimedia action and DVD playing we will install xine:
  
  Code:

  # yum -y install xine xine-lib xine-skins
  
  
  
   
  
  
  
  
• A Fedora install would not be complete without the coolest video player mplayer, so let's install it
  
  Code:

  # yum -y --disablerepo=livna install mplayer mplayer-skins mplayer-fonts
  
  
  
   
  And now we'll install the windows codecs for mplayer
  
  
  
  Code:

  # wget http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/essential-20061022.tar.bz2
# tar -xjvf essential-20061022.tar.bz2
# mkdir /usr/local/lib/win32
# mv essential-20061022/* /usr/local/lib/win32
  
  
  
   
  Now we need to install the mplayer plugin for web browsers:
  
  
  
  Code:

  # yum -y install mplayerplug-in
  
  
  
   
  
  
  
  
• Install Java 6.0 Update 1. Get over to Sun's Java download site and choose the Linux RPM in self-extracting file version.
   
  Location: [/url]http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp
  Linux RPM in self-extracting file: [url=https://sdlc5d.sun.com/ECom/EComActionServl...0FBE7FAEB98B511]https://sdlc5d.sun.com/ECom/EComActionServl...0FBE7FAEB98B511
   
  Open a Terminal.
  Become root (su -)
  Change back to your home directory (cd ~username)
  Where "username" is your normal username.
  Run the file that you downloaded, by doing:
  
  Code:

  # sh Desktop/jdk-6u1-linux-i586-rpm.bin
  
  
  
   
  It will display a license agreement. You can press q to skip it.
  Type "yes" when it asks you if you agree. Then it will install Java.
   
  Finally,you can enable the Java plugin for your web browser:
   
  
  
  
  Code:

  # ln -s /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_01/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

The above was taken from anyweb's pinned post on adding multimedia extras with just a few changes for Fedora 7. Dont forget to diable Livna repos so you dont trash your system by mixing Freshrpm Repos and Livna Repos.

 

They are not compatible trust me I know this one :)

 

Corkster

[kc7gnm]

I have done everything on this post on how to install java on Fedora 7 but I cannot get the thing to work. I had no problem in Fedora Core 5 but nothing is working on this version. Has anyone else had this problem?

 

Greg

[kc7gnm]

Couple of fixes on your code. The second line of code should read:

 

Code:

rpm -ivh http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/7/i386/RPMS.freshrpms/freshrpms-release-1.1-1.fc.noarch.rpm

 

Then you left out a / in this corrected code for the java install.

 

Code:

ln -s /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_01/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/

[znx]

Thanks for the fixes kc7gnm!