How to get packages not supplied by Fedora

[Mark Knecht]

Thaks for all the replies. They look quite helpful.

Can I safely just replace the /etc/yum.conf file with the example file
and try it out?

Also, is there an FC2 solution? I have 2 FC2 machines and 1 FC3.

thanks,
Mark


On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 21:26:28 +0100, Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists at uni-x.org> wrote:
> Am Sa, den 15.01.2005 schrieb Mark Knecht um 20:50:
> 
> >    Being sort of new to Fedora I'm not clear about how to augment
> > their up2date/yum environment with locations that supply RPMs that
> > they don't supply. (mp3 playback or mplayer, for instance.)
> >
> >    Is there any sort of common document on how to make the envionment
> > more complete, andhow to make updates a bit easier to do? (I.e. -
> > other tools like Synaptic, etc. and places to point them.)
> 
> > Mark
> 
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> 
> Alexander
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