How do I get all the latest stuff for Fedora using yum?

This page lists the yum repository settings (configuration files) for my current Fedora Core 8 (Werewolf) installs (x86_64 boxes). It assumes you already have yum installed.

I don't recommend one use apt or up2date for Fedora any more. If you're looking for my old FC3 page for some reason, I've renamed it.

Please send updates/corrections to repos@xades.com. Last updated: $Date: 2008/01/13 15:14:28 $.

Contents: Yum setup - General help

The yum repositories

Yum is shipped with Fedora, so you will probably be using this by default.

For at least x86_64 arches now, you'll want to choose between livna.org and freshrpms. They probably will sort themselves out soon. I chose freshrpms, but you'll probably want to enable the livna repo for just the freetype-freeworld package.

rpm --import http://freshrpms.net/RPM-GPG-KEY-freshrpms
rpm -ivh http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/fedora/linux/8/freshrpms-release/freshrpms-release-1.1-1.fc.noarch.rpm

rpm --import http://livna-dl.reloumirrors.net/RPM-LIVNA-GPG-KEY
rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm
# this next line will disable livna, but as it's installed, you can re-enable it piecemeal when you want
perl -i -npe 's/enabled=1/enabled=0/' /etc/yum.repos.d/livna.repo

Then try installing some software that's not in the default Fedora repos. Like vlc.

In addition to one/both of those two, you may want Google & Skype:

cd /usr/share/doc/fedora-release-8/
wget https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub -O RPM-GOOGLE-GPG-KEY
rpm --import RPM-GOOGLE-GPG-KEY

cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/google.repo
[google]
name=Google - i386
baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/i386
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
^D

cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/skype.repo
[skype]
name=Skype Repository
baseurl=http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/fedora/updates/i586/
gpgkey=http://www.skype.com/products/skype/linux/rpm-public-key.asc
^D

I appreciate updates/corrections to this section sent to repos@xades.com.

What does all this stuff mean?

Yum is a package dependency mangement tool that can help you stay up to date with the latest published Fedora Core software. You can learn more about yum at Yum's site. Apt is another package manager. You can learn more about apt for RPM-based systems at http://freshrpms.net/apt.

To learn more about Fedora, refer to The main Fedora web page.

Some people may have issues because they don't have the right GPG key -- if you see yum or up2date complaining about "bad GPG key", import the right ones with these commands:

rpm --import /usr/share/doc/fedora-release-*/*GPG-KEY*
rpm --import http://freshrpms.net/RPM-GPG-KEY-freshrpms
rpm --import http://rpm.livna.org/RPM-LIVNA-GPG-KEY

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