On 11/07/2012 01:20 PM, lee issued this missive:
Carroll Grigsby <cgrigs986@xxxxxxx> writes:
On Wed, 07 Nov 2012 15:11:06 +0100
lee <lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hiisi <hiisi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
On 7 November 2012 16:41, Michael Hiller <sojasau@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I was assuming that.
Nobody should be advised to install third party software without
warnings that it can be harmful and leads to dreadful things.
"yum install vlc" fixed it, thank you! I thought I had already done
that ...
What's the alternative to installing 3rd party software? Get its
sources and compile and install it ourselves? I wouldn't mind doing
that if I knew how to make packages so that it's easier to keep track
of it ...
Take a look here:
http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f17.html
As the old saying goes, it works for me. Quite well.
That involves installing gstreamer-plugins-bad-nonfree: Isn't that 3rd
party software?
In a strict sense, ALL of Fedora (indeed any Linux distribution) is 3rd
party software. They are collections of programs and libraries from all
over the place (the kernel started out from Linus, most of the utilities
and such are from the Gnu people, etc., etc.).
What you should be saying is that it's from a non-Fedora repository (or
rather a non-Redhat controlled repository). Rpmfusion is a reliable
repository and many of the contributors to Fedora also have packages
there. While Redhat doesn't control it, it is still a good source, as
was livna (before there were too many incompatible forks of packages
between it and the "official" Fedora repos).
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