I've created a monster!! (Very well behaved too). I got sick of the total lack of applications on an otherwise decent-seeming http://meego.com Netbook distro, so I took matters into my own hands. For example, I was unable to play MP3's or other "proprietary" encoded media on a meego netbook, which seems like a major fail compared to many other distros (Fedora, Ubuntu) where nonfree codecs are easily made available for download even if they're not included in the original distro. Basically, I wanted all the usual apps I enjoy on fedora plus all the gstreamer plugins needed to decode MP3s, windows-media, etc. I was also missing numerous libs from rpmfusion (e.g. ffmpeg) needed to compile multimedia applications... Since Meego appears to be nearly fedora13 i686, this is relatively easy to do: I added the desired repos to /etc/yum.repos and hand-edited until they were in the shape i wanted them to be in. In order to prevent incompatibilities with a normal meego "yum update" I setup all the repositories as "disabled" and then they can be individially enabled with "--enablerepo" e.g. "yum --enablerepo fedora --enablerepo updates --enablerepo rpmfusion-free --enablerepo rpmfusion-free-updates --enablerepo rpmfusion-nonfree --enablerepo rpmfusion-nonfree-updates --enablerepo planetccrma install qtractor qjackctl jack-audio-connection-kit fluidsynth-dssi" will install the excellent programs http://qtractor.sourceforge.net/ and http://qjackctl.sourceforge.net/ ... After installing, I can plugin a USB keyboard (Akai LPK25), setup routing in qjackctl, and run qtractor (with fluidsynth dssi plugin synthesizer) and hear/record music. Works beautifully, even with the built-in audio on an acer aspireone netbook. Here's my /etc/yum.repos files to set this up (cd / ; tar xvzf ...) http://nielsmayer.com/meego/fedora13+rpmfusion+planetccrma-repos.tgz http://nielsmayer.com/meego/fedora13+rpmfusion+planetccrma-repos.README Programs I've installed and ran/tested with the new repository setup. http://nielsmayer.com/meego/meego-fedora-progs.txt http://nielsmayer.com/meego/meego-ccrma-progs.txt Niels http://nielsmayer.com PS: one of the main hacks needed -- I had to install duplicate libs of the following (with an rpm --force), since the meego readline and openssl were incompatible with that from fedora; both needed to be installed simultaneously to make existing meego progs continue to work, while also allowing new fedora or ccrma progs to run: openssl-1.0.0a-1.fc13.i686 is a duplicate with openssl-0.9.8m-3.1.i586 readline-6.1-2.fc13.i686 is a duplicate with readline-5.2-19.9.i586 Without these libs forced into place, yum tries and fails to nearly reinstall all of fedora over meego However, when these libs are setup, they appear to stop the dependency cascade that happens when the meego starts looking for fedora libs it can't resolve due to version-number differences between distros. PPS: note that my yum.repos setup doesn't interfere with a normal meego update -- you have to explicitly "--enablerepo" in order to get installs from the other repos: [npm@jtm-desktop ~]$ sudo yum update adobe-linux-i386 | 951 B 00:00 meego-core | 4.1 kB 00:00 meego-core-updates | 2.4 kB 00:00 meego-extra | 3.0 kB 00:00 meego-extra-updates | 2.4 kB 00:00 meego-netbook | 3.4 kB 00:00 meego-netbook-updates | 2.4 kB 00:00 meego-non-oss | 3.0 kB 00:00 meego-non-oss-updates | 2.3 kB 00:00 Setting up Update Process No Packages marked for Update _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
