Installing Rhythmbox on my Fedora

Today, enspied by a posting in Peio’s blog (in Bulgarian) I decided to install Rhythmbox on my Fedora.
I want to mention here the problems, which I’ve gone through. Just

yum install rhythmbox

does not solve the case. I got really mad when having no MP3 files support. Actually, I became mad because I unable to understand for a long time that this was my problem when trying to open any MP3 file. I was getting this crazy message:

failed to create mad element; check your installation

when trying to open an MP3. I suspected the MP3 problem when I saw that my OGG files ran fine.
So, after some Google search, I found this great article, which showed me the exit of the tunnel.
In brief – if you want Rhythmbox and MP3 support, you should do:

yum install gstreamer-plugins-mp3 rhythmbox

Have fun!

2 thoughts on “Installing Rhythmbox on my Fedora

  1. Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
    Server: Fedora Core 2 – i386 – Base
    Server: Fedora.us Extras (Stable)
    retrygrab() failed for:
    http://fedora.quicknet.nl/fedora/fedora/2/i386/yum/stable/headers/header.info
    Executing failover method
    retrygrab() failed for:
    http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/2/i386/yum/stable/headers/header.info
    Executing failover method
    retrygrab() failed for:
    http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora.us/fedora/fedora/2/i386/yum/stable/headers/header.info
    Executing failover method
    failover: out of servers to try
    Error getting file http://fedora.quicknet.nl/fedora/fedora/2/i386/yum/stable/headers/header.info
    [Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found

    Did not work for me…any suggestions?

  2. freshrpms.net to Yum.conf

    [freshrpms]
    name=Fedora Linux $releasever – $basearch – freshrpms
    baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/freshrpms

    Also, I commented out Livna and fedora.us since they may conflict with FreshRPMs

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