Installing Free and Nonfree Repositories
Installation can be
done either using a web browser, or via the command line.
Graphical Setup via Firefox web browser
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First enable
access to the free
repository. For users of gpk (gnome package kit) that is easy and
basically only one step (users of kpackagekit should use the command
line to enable RPM Fusion due to a bug in
kpackagekit;
see below); just click on one of the following files, depending on what
distribution you use and then follow the default options that Firefox
and Package Kit offer by clicking Enter a few times (¹):
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Once that
succeeds, you can enable access to the nonfree
repositories by clicking on one of the following files, depending on
what distribution you use and then follow the default options that
Firefox and Package Kit offer by clicking Enter a few
times(¹):
(¹) Once you
clicked on above link Firefox will ask you how to Open the file.
Here you can simply use the default and open the file with the default
application Package Installer. Then Firefox will call Package
Kit, which asks Do you want to install this file ?. Click OK
to begin install; The install should go through various testing, and
installing stages, and then complete. That's all.
Command Line Setup using rpm
To enable access to
both the free and the nonfree
repository use the following command:
More information
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You need to enable
EPEL on RHEL5 or compatible distributions like CentOS before
you enable RPM Fusion for EL
- The
RPM Fusion for EL repositories are still in the early testing stages;
hence you (for now) need to enable epel-testing as well, as some of the
RPM Fusion packages depend on packages that are currently in
epel-testing.
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All users that
used Freshrpms or Livna installed properly (e.g. by installing one of
their foo-release packages) got RPM Fusion free and nonfree
repositories enabled automatically.
