Paul Johnson wrote: > I installed Centos on some machines that need long term support. I'm > running up against some simple user convenience issues. > > How to play MP3? > > I've been really puzzled today that the addon rpm sites like livna, > rpmforge, rpmfusion, epel, don't seem to have something like > amarok-mp3 or xine-lib-mp3. What am I missing? It can be done in > Ubuntu, Debian, and Fedora Linux. No, but they have gstreamer plugins which can play mp3s, there's xmms-mp3, and xine-lib from rpmforge also should play mp3s. > In the worst case scenario, what must be done? get the xine source > code and build an rpm that includes the mp3 components? Have you checked that this isn't already the case? > Do you have Nvidia cards? > > Then I noticed there is a new Nvidia proprietary driver on > www.nvidia.org, and I can't find an rpm package for it, or for the > previous 2 releases of the nvidia driver. The place to get those > packages used to be rpm.livna.org, but that is now moved to rpmfusion, > but on the rpmfusion site, the nonfree folders are empty. livna.org *never* had rpms for CentOS/RHEL. atrpms and rpmforge have nvidia drivers for CentOS/RHEL. If you need more current ones, please do contact the appropriate venues (mailing lists, forums) for those repositories. > Oh, well. Just singing a complaining song. Yes, but to the wrong audience. CentOS is not in control over what gets into third party repositories. Ralph
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