[SATLUG] XMMS under Fedura 1 question

[Sean Carolan]

Luis:

Fedora removed mp3 support because the codec is not
entirely free software.  Fedora developers goal is to
release a distro that is entirely open source
software.

So, to get goodies like MP3 support, Xine, etc. you
can grab those packages here:

http://ayo.freshrpms.net

You can add a section to your /etc/yum.conf that looks
like this (if you are using YUM for updates):

[freshrpms]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - FreshRPMS
baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/freshrpms

Then you just do:

yum update
yum install xmms-mp3


Personally I agree with you and think that they should
add that option during the install like Debian does
with the "Non-free and contrib" sections of their repository.