On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 15:50:29 +0200, Gábor Iglói wrote: >> With yum you would do: >> >> yum install mplayer > > Thx, this works. And is there a way to browse available packages for > Fedora? As I see I need to know about some unofficial repos like livna > if I'd like to yum up all of my favourite Linux softwares... (Skype, > RealPlayer, mplayerplug-in, streamtuner, LimeWire). Yes, there's a way: yum list yum list package yum list | grep package If you want to see info about a package yum info package This last one is the equivalent of apt-cache show package Everybody wants those packages, but they can't be released under fedora, because of licensing. I'd be surprised if other distributions offered them.