Package Requests
Use this page to post a request for a packages that can't go to Fedora but would be nice to have in the RPM Fusion repository. For update requests or package enhancements use bugzilla please.
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Important Note: Package request that don't give a good reason why the package cannot go to Fedora will get removed from this list immediately without further notice; if you are unsure if a package is suitable for Fedora then submit it to Fedora Wishlist; alternatively ask Fedora or RPM Fusion contributors for advice!
Note, there is no guarantee that package will be built, but it serves as a basis for maintainers looking for ideas on what to package next. But that doesn't happen very often, as you can guess from the length of this list. The best way to get a package into RPM Fusion quickly is to join RPM Fusion and maintaining the package yourself.
Please edit this page to add a new request ensuring the layout is maintained. For example:
Request: foo Summary: A program that does all sorts of foo URL: http://www.example.com Why not in Fedora: Explanation why this package is not eligible as a regular package in the Fedora repositories; packages request without a proper explanation will get removed from this list immediately! Notes: Optional notes section which may be useful for potential packagers
Requests will be removed where an RPM already exists in Fedora or RPM Fusion itself.
Current Requests
Place your current requests here, in alphabetical order.
Request: aacgain Summary: AACGain is a modification to the excellent mp3gain program. It supports AAC (mp4/m4a/QuickTime) audio files. URL: http://altosdesign.com/aacgain/ Why not in Fedora: Same reason mp3gain is not eligible; fear of patents. And it requires packages only available in rpm fusion. Notes: Should be a straight-forward addition
Request: acx100/acx111 Summary: Driver for Texas Instruments wireless device based URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/acx100/ Why not in Fedora: There are legal questions raised about the origin of that driver.
Request: Aegisub Summary: Subtitling+typesetting application with ASS/SSA support URL: http://www.aegisub.net/ Why not in Fedora: Depands on FFMpeg for video preview Notes: Fedora 10 rpm available but unstable: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpost.php?p=1197600&postcount=7
Request: amule adunanza Summary: software to use kad network for fastweb users Url: www.adunanza.net why not in fedora: could be legal problems with p2p software
Request: anyremote-j2me-client Summary: J2ME client for anyRemote (bluetooth remote control for PC) URL: http://anyremote.sourceforge.net/ Why not in Fedora: anyremote-j2me-client uses Sun WTK (which is free, but not open-source) for build. Notes: Review Request at https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167
Request: CDemu Summary: a kernel module simulate a CD drive + CD from cue/bin files URL: http://cdemu.sourceforge.net/ Why not in Fedora: Fedora won't ship the kernel modules (RH #177583).
Request: cairo (with patches to support cleartype filtering) Summary: A vector graphics library URL: http://cairographics.org Why not in Fedora: Patent issues regarding cleartype filtering Notes: this package should be part of a logical group of other patched packages supporting better subpixel rendering in Fedora, to bring up the font rendering to the level of Ubuntu, Windows XP/Vista and MacOS/X. These packages are: cairo, freetype, fontconfig, libXft (and maybe pixman, this should be checked). Source packages already exist with patches supporting these features for all the above packages at: ftp://brebs.me.uk/fedora/10/. Further info: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-186789.html
Request: cinelerra Summary: One of the best video edition tools around URL: http://cinelerra.org/ Why not in Fedora: Well, this package uses a lot of codecs available in livna/rpmfusion, so, that's why. Notes: Review Request at https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118
Request: dahdi-linux Summary: Digium Asterisk Hardware Device Interface (DAHDI) linux kernel modules, firmware and documentation Why not in Fedora: While Fedora does package dahdi-tools, dahdi-linux contains kernel modules (and firmware) that are not part of the main kernel tree, and are not included in Fedora. Note that there is no need to package dahdi-tools as this would be redundant. A spec file that I use currently is here: https://messinet.com/svn/rpms/dahdi-linux/trunk/dahdi-linux.spec
Request: Doom Legacy 2.0 Summary: SDL Open GL Doom Source port (WIP refer to the legacy forum or svn directory) URL: http://legacy.newdoom.com Why not in Fedora: Requires a commercial or shareware version of either DOOM, Ultimate DOOM or DOOM2
Request: DXX-Rebirth Summary: This is a Source Port of the Descent and Descent 2 Engines. URL: http://www.dxx-rebirth.com/ Why not in Fedora: Parallax License only allows non-commercial use of the source (http://dxx-rebirth.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/dxx-rebirth/trunk/d1x-rebirth/COPYING.txt?view=markup)
Request: easyMP3Gain Summary: A GUI for mp3Gain, aacGain, and vorbisGain to make gaining audio files just as easy as in windows URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/easymp3gain Why not in Fedora: mp3Gain isn't in Fedora either, so it's only natural that a GUI for it wouldn't be either. Notes: The project page has an RPM that already installs nicely into F10 and Rawhide. It would also be helpful to include aacGain in RPMFusion for completion.
Request: FASTA Summary: The FASTA programs find regions of local or global (new) similarity between Protein or DNA sequences URL: http://fasta.bioch.virginia.edu/fasta_www2/fasta_down.shtml Why not in Fedora: Was originally on Fedora wishlist, but removed because of non-commercial clause in license: http://faculty.virginia.edu/wrpearson/fasta/COPYRIGHT Notes: removal from Fedora wishlist: https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=SIGs/SciTech/BioinformaticsWishList&diff=0&oldid=34579
Request: flac2mp3 Summary: Tool to convert potentially large sets of FLAC audio files into the MP3 format URL: http://bytemonkey.org/flac2mp3/ Why not in Fedora: MP3 Notes: source rpm available at http://cachalot.mine.nu/10/SRPMS/
Request: freetype (with patches to support subpixel rendering and bytecode interpreter) Summary: A free and portable font rendering engine URL: http://www.freetype.org Why not in Fedora: Patent issues regarding cleartype filtering and bytecode interpreter Notes: this package should be part of a logical group of other patched packages supporting better subpixel rendering in Fedora, to bring up the font rendering to the level of Ubuntu, Windows XP/Vista and MacOS/X. These packages are: cairo, freetype, fontconfig, libXft (and maybe pixman, this should be checked). Source packages already exist with patches supporting these features for all the above packages at: ftp://brebs.me.uk/fedora/10/. Further info: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-186789.html
Request: fontconfig (with updated configuration to make use of available cleartype rendering and bytecode interpreter features) Summary: Font configuration and customization library URL: http://fontconfig.org Why not in Fedora: Because the default packages do not provide these features. Notes: this package should be part of a logical group of other patched packages supporting better subpixel rendering in Fedora, to bring up the font rendering to the level of Ubuntu, Windows XP/Vista and MacOS/X. These packages are: cairo, freetype, fontconfig, libXft (and maybe pixman, this should be checked). Source packages already exist with patches supporting these features for all the above packages at: ftp://brebs.me.uk/fedora/10/. Further info: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-186789.html
Request: generator Summary: An open-source Sega Genesis / Megadrive emulator URL: http://www.ghostwhitecrab.com/generator/ Why not in Fedora: Emulators are not permitted in Fedora
Request: GAP (gimp gap) Summary: GAP is an advanced tool to be able to create animations, this guide should give you some sort of view of how GAP works and what you can do with it URL: ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/plug-ins/v2.4/gap Why not in Fedora: cause it need xvidcore lib
Request: gloss Summary: a drop-in replacement for the existing MythTV frontend URL: http://www.ohloh.net/p/gloss-mc Why not in Fedora: needs mythtv which is in rpmfusion
Request: GnomeBoyAdvance Summary: Gnomeboyadvance is a GNOME frontend for the Visual Boy Advance emulator URL: http://developer.berlios.de/projects/gnomeboyadvance/ Why not in Fedora: Emulators are not permitted in Fedora
Request: gstreamer-pitfdll Summary: GStreamer plugin that allows the use of binary files, such as Quicktime QTX or Directshow/DMO DLL files. URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pitfdll/ Why not in Fedora: Probably because of codecs
Request: HandBrake (in progress) Summary: An open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 converter, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows. URL: http://handbrake.fr/ Why not in Fedora: Contains implementations of encoders and decoders for patented algorithms (e.g. MP3). Notes: This comes in both a CLI and GUI version, which would both be useful. Also, it requires libdvdcss to read DVDs directly. The default makefile downloads all it's own copies of all the multimedia libs, the challenging part here to get it to use the existing rpmfusion libraries as dependencies instead.
Request: icc-profiles Summary: Icc color profiles from Adobe to use with scribus, gimp, cinepaint. URL: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/iccprofiles/iccprofiles_linux.html Why not in Fedora: Non-free packages not allowed in Fedora.
Request: libXft (with cleartype filtering patches) Summary: X.Org X11 libXft runtime library URL: http://www.x.org Why not in Fedora: Patent issues regarding cleartype filtering Notes: this package should be part of a logical group of other patched packages supporting better subpixel rendering in Fedora, to bring up the font rendering to the level of Ubuntu, Windows XP/Vista and MacOS/X. These packages are: cairo, freetype, fontconfig, libXft (and maybe pixman, this should be checked). Source packages already exist with patches supporting these features for all the above packages at: ftp://brebs.me.uk/fedora/10/. Further info: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-186789.html
Request: LiVES Summary: LiVES is a Free, Open Source video editor *and* a VJ tool, using less resources than cinelerra. URL: http://lives.sourceforge.net/ Why not in Fedora: Codecs used, as usual... Notes: rpms available from sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=64341&package_id=198331
Request: ManDVD Summary: KDE based DVD creation program. URL: http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php/ManDVD?content=83906 Why not in Fedora: It depends on packages already in RPM Fusion (FFmpeg, mplayer, transcode, etc)
Request: moonlight Summary: Free implementation of Microsoft' Silverlight URL: http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight Why not in Fedora: On the forbidden list due to patent concerns Notes: Review Request at https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436
Request: Mupen64 Summary: Nintendo 64 emulator URL: http://mupen64.emulation64.com/ Why not in Fedora: Emulators are not permitted in Fedora Notes: This one was at Dribble but it is not in RPM Fusion. Mupen64 seems to work only on i386 and there are no updates on the project home page in the last 3 years. There is an active fork, called mupen64plus (see below).
Request: Mupen64Plus Summary: Nintendo 64 emulator URL: http://code.google.com/p/mupen64plus/ Why not in Fedora: Emulators are not permitted in Fedora Notes: Review Request at http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=303
Request: mythtv-status Summary: Scripts that display the current status of your MythTV system URL: http://www.etc.gen.nz/projects/mythtv/mythtv-status.html Why not in Fedora: Needs mythtv which is in rpmfusion Notes: Review Request: http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=539
Request: Mythvodka Summary: a plugin for MythTV allowing streaming of BBC iPlayer, Hulu, HTTP and NZB content. URL: http://code.google.com/p/mythvodka/ Why not in Fedora: Depends on mythtv, not packaged in fedora due to encumbered codecs Notes: hulu support is in flux ...
Request: netperf Summary: Network performance/benchmarking with the ability to benchmark many different protocols URL: http://www.netperf.org/netperf/NetperfPage.html Why not in Fedora: Does not appear to be a compatible license, COPYING file states it's owned by HP, but the code appears to be FOSS. Notes: No special requirements or dependencies that I know of.
Request: Nvidia CUDA Summary: Nvidia's CUDA technology enables the GPU to be used for various complex scientific computations. URL: http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_get.html Why not in Fedora: Free but not open-source Notes: Review Request at https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=459
Request: OpenShot Video Editor Summary: A free and open source non-linear video editor URL: http://www.openshotvideo.com/ Why not in Fedora: It depends on packages that are not available in Fedora (ffmpeg, mlt).
Request: Open Movie Editor Summary: Open Movie Editor is a free and open source video editing program, designed for basic movie making capabilities. It aims do be powerful enough for the amateur movie artist, yet easy to use. URL: http://www.openmovieeditor.org/ Why not in Fedora: The codecs it uses are not compatible with fedora's license. Notes: rpm already available in opensuse through the packman repos: http://packman.links2linux.de/package/OpenMovieEditor
Request: Opera Summary: A popular web browser and Internet suite. URL: http://www.opera.com/ Why not in Fedora: nonfree Notes: Opera distributes both, tarball archives and rpms for Fedora and EPEL on their download pages (e.g. http://www.opera.com/browser/download/?os=linux-i386&ver=9.63&local=y for i386). Also, they welcome if anyone wants to mirror their packages (http://www.opera.com/download/mirrors/), but it doesn't say anything about if they allow repackaging and such.
Request: PCSX Summary: An open-source Sony PlayStation emulator URL: http://www.pcsx.net/ Why not in Fedora: Emulators are not permitted in Fedora Notes: pcsx-df (Debian fork) review has been dropped at Dribble (http://dribble.org.uk/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=130)
Request: Project X Summary: DVB demux tool URL: http://project-x.sourceforge.net/ Why not in Fedora: MPEG, http://project-x.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/project-x/Project-X/ReadMe.txt?revision=1.22&view=markup Notes: source rpm available at http://cachalot.mine.nu/9/SRPMS/
Request: r5u87x firmware
Summary: Firmware for cameras based on Ricoh R5U87x chipsets. (Used on HP dv6000 and dv9000 series laptops and on some Sony Vaio laptops)
URL: http://bitbucket.org/ahixon/r5u87x/overview/
Why not in Fedora: Possibly legal issue
Notes: Rpm and sourcerpm for OpenSUSE http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/11802631/com/r5u87x-loader-0.2.0-11.3.x86_64.rpm.html
(dunno if it helps at all)Request: sdlhazemd Summary: HazeMD is a Megadrive/Genesis emulator based on the MAME code URL: http://rbelmont.mameworld.info/?page_id=163 Why not in Fedora: Emulators are not permitted in Fedora
Request: smplayer-themes Summary: This package provides icon themes for SMPlayer. URL: http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/downloads.php?tr_lang=en Why not in Fedora: requires packages only available in rpmfusion, is very cool and easy to build and packing Notes: I got a .spec, here http://sergiomb.no-ip.org/specs/smplayer-themes.spec, which builds smplayer-themes-0.1.19.tar.bz2 into rpms. Answer: There are many mixed licenses in the "free" package, eg. GPL, LGPL, Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license, Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License. Someone with proper understanding of mixing licenses needs to look deeper into this (SebastianVahl - smplayer maintainer).
Request: snack Summary: The Snack Sound Toolkit is designed to be used with a scripting language such as Tcl/Tk or Python. Using Snack you can create powerful multi-platform audio applications with just a few lines of code. URL: http://www.speech.kth.se/snack/ Why not in Fedora: Has mp3 stuff in it Notes: This library will allow amsn to send/receive audio clips
Request: snes9x-gtk Summary: A graphical user interface for Snes9x URL: http://code.google.com/p/snes9x-gtk Why not in Fedora: There is no snes9x itself in Fedora repositories and no GUIs for the same reason. Notes: THIS IS NOT A DOUBLE! snes9x and snes9x-gtk are different packages.
Request: sox (with mp3 support) Summary: SoX is a media converter. It also ships with play, a player which play all format that SoX support and have bunch of cool effects. URL: http://sox.sourceforge.net/ Why not in Fedora: It is in, but compiled without liblame or libmad.
Request: StepMania 3.9 Summary: Game similar to Dance Dance Revolution where user can add/create steps and songs URL: http://www.stepmania.com/ Why not in Fedora: Uses mp3 files for music
Request: swarmplayer Summary: Stream video over a peer-to-peer bittorrent network URL: http://trial.p2p-next.org/linux/ Why not in Fedora: It requires vlc and python-vlc
Request: VIA Chrome9 drm kmod/akmod Summary: provide DRM support for VIA Chrome9 graphic card URL: http://linux.via.com.tw/support/downloadFiles.action, choose CN896, Ubuntu 8.10, link: Chrome9 DRM source for kernel Why not in Fedora: Fedora won't ship kernel modules Notes: urgently needed for running Chrome9 GPUs with VIA proprietary driver. Even if users manage to get those drivers manually running, they need to build the module when kernel updates arrive through updates.
Request: VIA Chrome9/UniChrome proprietary 3D Xorg driver. Summary: provide Xorg 3D driver for VIA Chrome9/UniChrome URL: http://linux.via.com.tw/support/downloadFiles.action, choose CN896, Ubuntu 8.10, link: Unified GFX driver Ver 85a-44597 Why not in Fedora: restricted driver Notes: Although only available for Ubuntu 8.10, they also work for Fedora. Confirmed for HP 2133, see http://hp2133.umsw.de, section 11b. Issues with SELinux, also with OpenGL and RandR (both only when using compiz). 2D driver works better with RandR but is known to cause system freezes. Options/switches for xorg.conf not well documented. 3D driver needs VIA Chrome9 drm module, 2D may run without it, thus poor performance playing videos etc.
Request: Veejay Summary: visual instrument and realtime video sampler URL: http://www.veejayhq.net/ Why not in Fedora: The engine is based upon ffmpeg and the mjpegtools
Request: vdr-softdevice (ShmClient) Summary: Plugin for vdr which enables output via X11-Xv. With it you can use ShmClient to get vdr output with budget-only hardware (without a hardware MPEG-decoder). URL: http://softdevice.berlios.de/ Why not in Fedora: It uses ffpmeg to decode the MPEG-stream.
Request: VisualBoyAdvance Merge (VBA-M) Summary: Nintendo Gameboy, Gameboy Color, and Gameboy Advance Emulator URL: http://vba-m.ngemu.com/ Why not in Fedora: Emulators are not permitted in Fedora Notes: Review Request: https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=440
Request: XBMC Media Center Summary: Media center software designed for living room URL: http://xbmc.org/ Why not in Fedora: Depends on libraries such as libmad only available in RPM Fusion. Notes: Build instructions for Fedora here: http://xbmc.org/wiki/?title=HOW-TO_compile_XBMC_for_Linux_on_Fedora_RedHat_Enterprise_Linux_CentOS
Request: Xe Summary: A multi system emulator emulates many console and handheld video game systems. Xe is an original emulator written from scratch. URL: http://www.xe-emulator.com/ Why not in Fedora: Emulators are not permitted in Fedora
Request: xsnow Summary: Xsnow is the X-windows application that will let it snow on the root, in between and on windows. Santa and his reindeer will complete your festive-season feeling. URL: http://dropmix.xs4all.nl/rick/Xsnow/ Why not in Fedora: Unclear license, probably shareware-like. Freely distributable, but not Free Software Notes: A specfile for fedora available at http://users.linpro.no/ingvar/xsnow.spec
Request: zaptel-kmod (In progress - Seeking sponsor to add WillTatam as a contributor) Summary: zaptel kernel module for telephony cards URL: http://www.asterisk.org/ Why not in Fedora: Fedora won't ship the kernel modules (RH #177583). Notes: Asterisk (review RH #178922) and Zaptel tools (review RH #177584) are in Fedora.
Maintainers: If you decide to work on a package requested here, please label it as "in progress" for example - Request: foo (in progress). Once the package has been published, remove it from this list. Thanks.
Software we won't package
Request: AdobeReader Summary: An application that can view, navigate and print PDF documents Notes: Adobe provides its own Yum repository for Adobe Reader and Flash - see http://blogs.adobe.com/acroread/2008/02/adobe_reader_now_available_via.html URL: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2_allversions.html Why not in RPM Fusion: It is not re-distributable. See http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/distribute.html
Request: libdvdcss Summary: A library for accessing and unscrambling DVDs encrypted with the Content Scramble System (CSS) URL: http://www.videolan.org/developers/libdvdcss.html Why not in RPM Fusion: The short story is: It was agreed on not to ship it due to various reasons around the fact that libdvdcss is a bit more complicated (or dangerous) than all the other software RPM Fusion offers have. The long story and all the arguments for and against shipping it can be found in the mailing lists archives. Livna and Freshrpms will provide libdvdcss for the forseeable future.