Installing Free and Nonfree Repositories

We have two separate software repositories:

• free for Open Source Software (as defined by the Fedora Licensing Guidelines) which the Fedora project cannot ship due to other reasons

• nonfree for redistributable software that is not Open Source Software (as defined by the Fedora Licensing Guidelines); this includes software with publicly available source-code that has "no commercial use"-like restrictions

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

Please also check the dedicated Multimedia page for well known additional post-install steps.

See a more dedicated page for OSTree Systems (such as Silverblue, Kinoite and CoreOS)

Also worth to mention is the CommonBugs sections.

Graphical Setup via Firefox web browser

1. First enable access to the free repository. For users of gpk (gnome package kit) or kpackagekit in Fedora that is easy and basically only one step: just click on one of the following files, depending on what distribution you use and then follow the default options that Firefox and Package Kit offer by clicking Enter a few times (¹):

• RPM Fusion free for Fedora 38

• RPM Fusion free for Fedora 39

• RPM Fusion free for Fedora Branched and what will become Fedora 40

• RPM Fusion free for Fedora Rawhide

• RPM Fusion free for RHEL 9 or compatible like CentOS

• RPM Fusion free for RHEL 8 or compatible like CentOS

• RPM Fusion free for RHEL 7 or compatible like CentOS

2. Once that succeeds, you can enable access to the nonfree repositories by clicking on one of the following files, depending on what distribution you use and then follow the default options that Firefox and Package Kit offer by clicking Enter a few times(¹):

• RPM Fusion nonfree for Fedora 38

• RPM Fusion nonfree for Fedora 39

• RPM Fusion nonfree for Fedora Branched and what will become Fedora 40

• RPM Fusion nonfree for Fedora Rawhide

• RPM Fusion nonfree for RHEL 9 or compatible like CentOS

• RPM Fusion nonfree for RHEL 8 or compatible like CentOS

• RPM Fusion nonfree for RHEL 7 or compatible like CentOS

(¹) Once you clicked on above link Firefox will ask you how to Open the file. Here you can simply use the default and open the file with the default application Package Installer. Then Firefox will call Package Kit, which asks Do you want to install this file ?. Click OK to begin install; Package Kit then will complain about a Missing security signature; once you tell Package Kit to install the package nevertheless it will move on and install it. That's all.

Command Line Setup using rpm

To enable access to both the free and the nonfree repository use the following command:

• Fedora with dnf:

  sudo dnf install https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm

• On Fedora, we default to use the openh264 library, so you need the repository to be explicitely enabled:

  sudo dnf config-manager --enable fedora-cisco-openh264

• Silverblue with rpm-ostree:

  sudo rpm-ostree install https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm

  # You will have to reboot for the rpmfusion repositories to appear)

• RHEL or compatible like CentOS

  sudo dnf install --nogpgcheck https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-$(rpm -E %rhel).noarch.rpm
  sudo dnf install --nogpgcheck https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/free/el/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %rhel).noarch.rpm https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/el/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %rhel).noarch.rpm

• CentOS Steam 8 requires an additional step

  sudo dnf config-manager --enable powertools

• CentOS 8 (older version) used a case sensitive name for the PowerTools repository

  sudo dnf config-manager --enable PowerTools

• RHEL 8 requires an additional step

  sudo subscription-manager repos --enable "codeready-builder-for-rhel-8-$(uname -m)-rpms"

AppStream metadata

RPM Fusion repositories also provide Appstream metadata to enable users to install packages using Gnome Software/KDE Discover. Please note that these are a subset of all packages since the metadata are only generated for GUI packages.

For the current Fedora releases: the suggested method is to install appstream-data using DNF.

• The following command will install the required packages:

  sudo dnf groupupdate core

Important notes

• You need to enable EPEL on RHEL or compatible distributions like CentOS before you enable RPM Fusion for EL. See the fedoraproject wiki for instruction how to enable EPEL.