On behalf of the rpm.livna.org contributors I'd like to announce the availability of the Livna package repository for Fedora 8 (Werewolf). The livna repository hosts files which cannot be shipped in the 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 show 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.
The repository is browsable at <http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/8/> and can be made available on a freshly installed Fedora 8 system by typing in 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 it's add-on packages for. But don't despair, the future is bright: The livna contributors are busy working together with the guys bringing you dribble and freshrpms to be able to offer a unified repository in the future bringing you games, multimedia softrware and other tools from a single source. This merged repository is called "RPM Fusion" and you can find more information about our plans 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 pleasant flight with us.
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 seatbelts 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 still are installed on your Fedora 7 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@redhat.com 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
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