I have successfully installed and configured Fedore Core 10 (Cambridge) on my Dell Inspirion 1525 Laptop without a hiccup.The only thing that annoyed me is that I could not play a single mp3 file in any of dozens of Music Players available on FC10. This is really a frustrating aspects of some modern Linux distros is that they do not come with mp3 support rolled in. May be, it is intentionally done to avoid any licensing issues. Also, granted using the ogg format is a much better solution as well as a much better sounding format but for a user like me who has a massive amount of mp3 files already located on multiple hard drives converting to ogg format would be a very time consuming option. So, I wanted to have the mp3 support on my native laptop itself.Here is the solution I have found.The first command will install the necessary repositories for yum to use.
First issue: rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
Now it’s time to install the actual plugin for support.
yum -y install gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-ugly xine-lib-extras-nonfree
Now my system will allow mp3 playback in the major players. But there is still no xmms. To install xmms with mp3 support issue the following command:
yum install xmms xmms-mp3
Once this is finished your machine is all ready for full-blown mp3 playback in just about every type of application!
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