On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 10:41:58PM +0900, Dave Gutteridge enlightened us: > I'd like to install "Gstreamer" so that I can get MP3 support in > Rhythmbox. At least, I'm led to believe MP3 support comes with > installing Gstreamer from Rhythmbox's FAQ. > > But when I get to the Gstreamer download page: > http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/download/ > > ... it says: > > "Do not compile from source yourself unless you are certain you have to > or want to" > > Okay, fine. So I look for an RPM. But it doesn't have those, it only has > repositories for Fedora and Red Hat. > > A while back I messed up my system by installing repositories for > Fedora, so I'm wary of doing that kind of thing again. > > I tried a YUM search for gstreamer to see if it was available on DAG, > but no luck there. > > Does this mean I fall into the category of compiling myself because I > have to? The warning on the web site makes it sound like this is > something for experts to do. > gstreamer is already part of the base CentOS 4 install. yum list "*gstreamer*" It may be that mp3 support was ripped out by upstream to avoid legal issues, but that may be resolved by a few packages available from dag such as gstreamer-ffmpeg. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263