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[Linoman]

There are many people who have just installed a flavor of Linux. Only to find out that, they can not play their mp3's. The answer comes down to licensing, however here I will show you how to enable mp3 support in the following distros.

Open up a terminal window for each of the following. Ensure that you have root privileges. (Sudo command is used instead for (K)Ubuntu)

Ubuntu 8.04:

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

Kbuntu 8.04:

sudo apt-get install kubuntu-restricted-extras

Xbuntu 8.04:

sudo apt-get install kubuntu-restricted-extras

Fedora 9:

Please ensure you have the Livna Repository installed (before doing the following.)

su -c 'yum install gstreamer-plugins-good gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-ugly'

CentOS 5

Please ensure you have the Rpmforge Repository installed (before doing the following.)

yum install libdvdcss libdvdread libdvdplay livdvdnav lsdvd mplayerplug-in mplayer mplayer-gui compat-libstdc++-33 gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-ugly libquicktime

OpenSuse 11

This comes complete with mp3 support. No other action is needed.

Source

Linoman

[Christopholofigus]

Nice...some Linux focus. Maybe it is time for me to play with some distros again...




...Ok, AFTER college or maybe during a break.

[Linoman]

I want to make Linux a bit more prominent on the forum.

See where it goes