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Re: [News] Fedora Linux Made More Open and Easier

  • Subject: Re: [News] Fedora Linux Made More Open and Easier
  • From: "[H]omer" <spam@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 00:51:52 +0100
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Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:

> Fedora Linux add MP3, Java, DVD Playback and multimedia support
> 
> http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-add-mp3-multimedia-support-to-fedoralinux.html

A 5.5K, 144 line script seem a bit OTT just to do this:

######
rel=$(cat /etc/redhat-release | sed s/^.*release\ // | cut -d' ' -f1)
freepkgs="firefox libgcj gnash"
nonfreepkgs="amarok-extras-nonfree libdvdcss mplayerplug-in"

rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-${rel}.rpm
yum install ${freepkgs}
yum --enablerepo livna install ${nonfreepkgs}

gcjplugin=$(rpm -ql libgcj.$(uname -i) | grep "/libgcjwebplugin.so")
plugd=$(find $(rpm -ql firefox | grep "a/plugins") -maxdepth 0 -type d))
ln -s ${gcjplugin} ${plugd}/
######

And unlike the other solution, this is x86_64 compatible and uses only
GPL/MPL software.

-- 
K.
http://slated.org

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