FedoraThirdPartyRepos

This page lists many third party repositories available for Fedora. It can be useful to track previous packaging attempts or to ask 3rd party maintainers to join RPM Fusion.

The following repositories are known to work well with RPM Fusion:

• Adobe Flash Player and Adobe Reader

• CalcForge - Software related to TI calculators.

• Dr. Pixel

• Gemi - Mainly development tools, mathematics and audio software.

• Google - Proprietary software like picasa or google earth.

• Kwizart - Experimental Repository for testing Fedora and/or RPM Fusion packages

• Unofficial Packages for Publican - Publican takes DocBook XML input and outputs HTML, plain Unicode text and PDF. This output can be branded with the following brands: Fedora, Red Hat, and JBoss.

• Remi Collet

Mixing different RPM repositories that were not designed to be mixed can easily lead to problems. Use these repositories at you own risk if you have RPM Fusion enabled!

• Acpacks - Acpacks only has Exaile-bzr (i386) packages. Exaile is a music manager and player for GTK+ written in Python.

• Additional Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 - Various packages, that can't be part of Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL). They mostly originate in Livna repository.

• AlphaMail - An accelerated web mail interface with a C++ middleware layer that is more effective than an IMAP proxy which is a highly scalable (10k+ users).

• ATrpms - The original focus laid upon software used in natural sciences, especially in the field of high energy physics, e.g. tools for numerical programming or such for scientific publications. But since then this repository has included many non-scientific software titles, like system tools or multimedia packages, resulting in a far more generic repository.

• Bruno Postle - Various panoramic-image related packages.

• city-fan.org

• CompizFusion - Compiz Fusion 0.5.2 packages.

• CRASH-HAT - A collection of network daemons and useful sysadmin utils.

• Dan Horak's repo

• Dell - Drivers, updates, OpenManage applications, as well as community-supported software.

• eGroupWare - A web-based groupware suite written in PHP.

• ETHZ/ID Yum Repository

• Fabrice Bellet

• Fedora-xgl - Xserver that uses OpenGL.

• Freed-ora - A sub-project that prepares and maintains 100% Free RPMs that track Fedora's non-Free kernels.

• FreePOPs - An easily extensible program, which allows access to the most varied resources through the POP3 protocol.

• Hany

• Haskell - Packages for Fedora Core 5.

• JPackage - Java software packages for Linux.

• KDE Packaging Project - unofficial core and 3rd-party KDE RPM packages.

• Kirov

• LFarkas Repository

• Michael Fleming

• Midgard CMS - Midgard CMS packages.

• MOKs RPM Repository - Software for macromolecular crystallography (for RHEL 4).

• Mono - Packages for Fedora Core 5. Spec files also available.

• OpenAFS 1.4.6 - AFS is a distributed filesystem product

• OpenGroupware.org - Open source groupware server.

• Paulo Roma

• Planet CCRMA at home - A collection of rpms to transform Fedora into an audio workstation with a low-latency kernel, current ALSA audio drivers and a nice set of music, midi, audio and video applications.

• Professor Kriehn's Fedora Repository - some "Old School" software that seems to have fallen out of mainstream popularity.

• Red Hat Club Repository - Packages for RHEL-based distributions following Fedora Packaging Guidelines (site in Russian). Many are rebuilt from Fedora and RPM Fusion.

• RPM Forge

• Sebastian Vahl

• Silfreed.net

• Software Suspend on Linux / Fedora Core / RHEL - Linux equivalent of Windows' hibernate functionality.

• TeXLive repo - Replace teTeX with TeXLive.

• Tigro

• University of Nebraska-Lincoln stable repository

• Ville Skytta - This repository contains Fedora and Livna packages pending for QA or submission as well as some experimental JPackage work and other stuff.

• Xavier Lamien

Enabling other Third-Party Repositories

RPM Fusion is specifically designed to work with Fedora only. Mixing with other third-party RPM repositories can very easily lead to problems. Enable them at you own risk!

In this case, you should seriously consider using the priorities yum plugin to enforce ordered protection of repositories. Packages installed from repositories with a higher priority will never be upgraded with packages from repositories with a lower priority. The priorities are also in effect when a new package is installed - if a package is in more than one repository, it will be installed from the repository with the highest priority.

To install the priorities plugin, use the following command:

yum install yum-priorities

To enable this plugin, make sure that you have plugins=1 in /etc/yum.conf and verify that the /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/priorities.conf file has the following content:

[main]
enabled=1

If you want the plugin to protect high-priority repositories against obsoletes in low-priority repositories, enable the check_obsoletes boolean:

check_obsoletes=1

You can add priorities to repositories by adding the line:

priority=N

to a repository entry, where N is an integer number from 1 to 99. The default priority for repositories is 99. The repositories with the lowest number have the highest priority.

You should give a very high priority to Fedora and RPM Fusion repositories.