It's actually not US-law as far as I know, Redhat's just playing it safe. Seeing as how none of the other distro's due this, I do think they are being a little too on the cautious side. Reguardless, to make MP3's work for me, I downloaded the xmms-mp3 RPM from freshrpms.net, you might want to give that a try. On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 17:11, Tobias Weisserth wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I have followed the ESR howto from > http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Fedora-Multimedia-Installation-HOWTO/index.html to > enable a few things that stupid US legislation crippled away from > Fedora. > > But even after following the tutorial point by point I get this: > > # yum install xmms-mp3 > Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) > Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Base > Server: Fedora Core 1 Dag Wieers' repository > Server: Macromedia flash-plugin site > Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (stable) > Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (testing) > Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (unstable) > Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Released Updates > Finding updated packages > Downloading needed headers > Resolving dependencies > ....identical dependency loop exceeded > package xmms-mp3 needs xmms = 1.2.7 (not provided) > > Trying up2date results in the same error. > > I then checked which version I have installed: > > # xmms --version > xmms 1.2.8 > > This sucks. I thought yum and up2date were supposed to solve > dependencies themselves? And why isn't version 1.2.8 sufficient to > install xmms-mp3? I have done a normal installation of Core 1 and > updated the packages via yum, using mirror servers from the list Fedora > provides. I then followed the howto. > > Has anyone encountered the same problem? Please help me solve this. > These whole patent issues are SO ridiculous. Maybe it's better to base > Fedora in a non-US country right away to avoid this mess. Sorry, but I > have no tolerance for this kind of "intellectual property" shit. > > kind regards, > Tobias W. -- Adam Voigt adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
