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Upgrading from Freshrpms or Livna

All users that installed Freshrpms (e.g. by installing the freshrpms-release package) or Livna (e.g. by installing the livna-release package) properly will get RPM Fusion free and nonfree repositories enabled automatically.

Installing Free and Non-Free Repositories

Installation can be done using either using a web browser, or via the command line.

Graphical Setup via firefox web browser and Package Kit

To enable access via yum to the free repository:

  1. Open a web browser window
  2. Click rpmfusion-free-release

  3. If you are asked where to save the rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm choose the desktop and click save. When complete, view the download window, and double-click the downloaded rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm file

  4. Package Kit will ask Do you want to install this file ?. Click OK to begin install.

  5. The install should go through various testing, and installing stages, and then complete.

To enable access via yum to the nonfree repository:

  1. Open a web browser window
  2. Click rpmfusion-nonfree-release

  3. If you are asked where to save the rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm choose the desktop and click save. When complete, view the download window, and double-click the downloaded rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm file

  4. Package Kit will ask Do you want to install this file ?. Click OK to begin install.

  5. The install should go through various testing, and installing stages, and then complete.

Command Line Setup using rpm

To enable access via yum to the free repository, use the following command as root:

rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm

If you want to enable access to the nonfree repository as well, you also need to type this command as root:

rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm

Rawhide

If you installed a Fedora Beta or you use Rawhide then use the following command to enable RPM Fusion free for rawhide:

rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-rawhide.noarch.rpm 

And also this one if you want to use non-free too:

rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-rawhide.noarch.rpm