I did this, and, although xmms-mp3 installed, it still gave me the same message and refused to play any MP3s. On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 22:52, Lee-Win Tai wrote: > On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 10:17:59PM -0500, Brian Hartman wrote: > > > > Admittedly, I didn't look at the package list, but when I tried to run > > the command, I received the message: > > > > "Due to patent licensing, and conflicts between such patent licenses and > > the licenses of application source code, MPEG-1/2 audio layer 3 (MP3) > > support has been removed from this application by Red Hat, Inc. We > > apologize for this inconvenience." > > How to play MP3s under FC1 seems to occur frequently. > > Here's how you do it: > > 1. If you are using yum, add these lines to /etc/yum.conf. You > typically must be root to do this. > > --- cut below --- > > [livna-stable] > name=Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (stable) > baseurl= http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/yum/stable > gpgcheck=1 > > [livna-unstable] > name=Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (unstable) > baseurl=http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/yum/unstable > gpgcheck=1 > > [livna-testing] > name=Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (testing) > baseurl=http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/yum/testing > gpgcheck=1 > > --- cut above --- > > > > 2. If you are using up2date, add these lines to > /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources. You typically must be root to do this. > > --- cut below --- > > yum livna-stable-fc1 http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/1/i386/yum/stable > yum livna-testing-fc1 http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/1/i386/yum/testing > yum livna-unstable-fc1 http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/1/i386/yum/unstable > > --- cut above --- > > 3. If you did #1, become root (su -), and type yum install xmms-mp3. > > 4. If you did #2, become root (su -), and type up2date -u xmms-mp3. > > 5. Enjoy your MP3s. > > > You can read more about the livna.org repository at > http://rpm.livna.org/ > >
