On behalf of the Livna ( http://rpm.livna.org ) contributers I'd like to announce the availability of the Livna package repository for Fedora 8 (Werewolf). The Livna repository hosts software as RPM packages which cannot be shipped in the official Fedora repository for various reasons and supports the i386, x86_64 and ppc architectures. Using the Livna repository gives your Werewolf the ability to play all kinds of audio such as MP3 files and plays DVDs. Additionally Livna offers the ATI and Nvidia closed-source drivers in a Fedora-compatible rpm package for the Fedora users whose videocards are not yet fully supported with the stock open source drivers. You can browse the repository at http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/8/ To make it available on a freshly installed Fedora 8 system run the following command: {{{ $ su -c 'rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm' }}} Further below you'll find some more examples on getting the important bits for a modern system installed from livna. On another note, I have some sad news: Fedora 8 will be the last release livna will be offering its add-on packages for. But don't despair, the future is bright: The Livna contributers are busy working together with the guys behind dribble and freshrpms to offer a unified repository in the future bringing you games, multimedia software and other tools from a single source. This merged repository is called "RPM Fusion"; you can find more information about it at http://rpmfusion.org/ Interested? Want to help? Then don't hesitate and subscribe to the developers mailing lists at http://lists.rpmfusion.org/mailman/listinfo/rpmfusion-developers or meet us in the #rpmfusion channel on freenode. That's all folks. Thank you for your attention and we wish you a very pleasant flight with the newly released Fedora 8 together with the Livna repositories. Bye! Thorsten Leemhuis == More details == Ladies and gentleman, the pilot has informed me that we've reached our travel altitude. You can now loosen your seatbelt's and our flight attendants will be with you shortly for refreshments. Still aboard and reading? Great, here are some more informations for the curious: === Reminder for the folks that plan to yum-update to Fedora 8 === If you have livna-packages installed on your system and plan to live-update to Fedora 8 using yum then please leave the livna-repos enabled for the big "yum update" run. Then you'll get all the updated packages from livna as well, which is important, as their dependencies get fulfilled by the Fedora 8 packages -- that's not the case for the old Livna packages that might still be installed on your Fedora system. === Examples to get the most important bits from livna === Once you installed the release-rpm you can install software using the graphical software installation tool called pirut, which is part of Fedora. You as root-users can also use yum on a command line to install packages; for example: * if you'd like to install xine as a video-player run {{{ # yum install xine-lib-extras-nonfree xine }}} * if you prefer mplayer run {{{ # yum install mplayer-gui }}} * if you prefer vlc run {{{ # yum install vlc }}} * if you want to get the latest nvidia graphic drivers for modern cards and the stock Fedora kernel run {{{ # yum install kmod-nvidia }}} and restart X. * if you want to get the latest amd graphic drivers for the stock Fedora kernel run {{{ # yum install kmod-fglrx }}} and restart X. * you want to get MP3-Support in Gnome apps? run {{{ # yum install gstreamer-plugins-ugly }}} * you're using KDE? Well, then run: {{{ # yum install k3b-extras-nonfree kdemultimedia-extras-nonfree }}} === Problems? === Let us know via http://bugzilla.livna.org/ === Need support? === Many people in #fedora on freenode, on fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx and in the forums know how to help. === Developer contact === Meet us in #livna on freenode or join the mailing list at http://livna.org/mailman/listinfo/freeworld === EOF === End of file -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
