Installing additional software in Fedora

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Fedora includes the following yum repos by default:
1) Fedora
2) Fedora-updates
3) Fedora-updates-testing
However, if you need to install additional software that is missing in the above repos, I would recommend adding RPM Fusion repo, which will allow you to install packages such as ‘VLC’. To install the additional repo, and installing VLC, try the below:

$ sudo rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
$ sudo yum install vlc -y

How do you install additional repos in Fedora? Share your comments in this blog.

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  1. Jim

    You are only getting some of RPMFusion that way. You also need to add the nonfree repos. Same command just substitute nonfree for free.
    Be careful using the -y option with any command as it doesn’t give the option to opt out. Okay when you know what is going to happen but can be a problem occasionally. E.g. try installing a KDE application on a Gnome system and you will get a couple of hundred meg of dependencies you may not have been expecting.

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