Get multimedia working (win32 codecs, mp3) on FC7t1

Gerry Tool gerrytool at gmail.com
Fri Feb 9 04:37:11 UTC 2007


On 2/8/07, Doctor Who <whodoctor at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/8/07, Patrick <fedora-list at puzzled.xs4all.nl> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 17:19 -0500, Doctor Who wrote:
> > > Would someone be so kind as to point me to directions to get
> > > multimedia working (win32 codecs, mp3, flash) enabled on FC7t1?  I've
> > > found directions for FC6, but the instructions don't appear to work
> > > when used with FC7t1.
> >
> > I think you can use atrpms.net to yum install all the goodies for F7t1
> > (they dropped the "Core" part).
> >
> > Regards,
> > Patrick
> >
>
> Perhaps I'm doing something wrong, but using the example yum.conf on
> that page gives me an error:
>
> [root at localhost doc]# yum update
> Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> Setting up Update Process
> Setting up repositories
> http://dl.atrpms.net/fc6.90-x86_64/atrpms/stable/repodata/repomd.xml:
> [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 02:09:50 GMT
> Server: Apache/2.2.3 (Fedora)
> Content-Length: 323
> Connection: close
> Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
>
> Trying other mirror.
> Error: Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: atrpms
>
Edit the file and change 'fc$releasever' to 'f7'

in  baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/fc$releasever-$basearch/atrpms/stable

and it should work.

The variable, $releasever, converts to '6.90', so the directory
becomes 'fc6.90' when the directory on the server is actually 'f7'.

Gerry




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