Getting Codecs for and updating software in Fedora 8

P38Lightning · #1 14th July 2012, 10:50 PM

My Dad has an old laptop that loves Fedora 8, he wants me to figure out how to get codecs for it so he can play all the standard video and audio files. Also how do I update fedora 8?

***glennzo*** · #2 14th July 2012, 10:53 PM

There are no updates for Fedora 8. It has reached EOL a long time ago. The Fedora Setup Guides link above may be useful for getting codecs. This one in particular pertains to Fedora 8.

P38Lightning · #3 15th July 2012, 12:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by glennzo

There are no updates for Fedora 8. It has reached EOL a long time ago.

Is there any way to update say just Firefox and Thunderbird, and maybe a couple other programs? Also thanks for the links for getting codecs, looks like that will work.

***glennzo*** · #4 15th July 2012, 12:43 AM

I would guess, and it's strictly a guess, that the newer Firefox(s) wouldn't be compatible with the older Fedora 8 libraries. I suspect that the same may be true for Thunderbird.

P38Lightning · #5 15th July 2012, 01:46 AM

Ok, thank you, I'll see what I can do.

errorxp · #6 17th July 2012, 08:39 PM

You can add rpmfusion from ftp.pbone.net

Code:

su -c "yum install --nogpgcheck ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/updates/8/i386/rpmfusion-free-release-8-6.noarch.rpm ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/updates/8/i386/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-8-6.noarch.rpm"

Then install vlc maybe.

I don't think the latest version of firefox will work on it but an earlier version (5,6..) more than likely will.
You can grab the tarball from mozilla ftp.

P38Lightning · #7 18th July 2012, 02:12 AM

Thank you I'll try that

Um I know this is kinda offtopic, but do you know of a place that I can do the same thing for F14?

errorxp · #8 18th July 2012, 07:49 AM

Sure, you can add rpmfusion for F14 the same way, the packages are all available from rpmfusion site - look http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/...thing/i386/os/

to add the repo:

Code:

su -c "yum install --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/releases/14/Everything/i386/os/rpmfusion-free-release-14-0.4.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/releases/14/Everything/i386/os/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-14-0.4.noarch.rpm"

P38Lightning · #9 18th July 2012, 12:00 PM

worked like a charm thanks

P38Lightning · #10 23rd July 2012, 12:40 AM

Hello guys, I have my Dad's laptop now and it turns out that it is fedora 9 not 8, so if someone could post the rpmfusion command for 9 I'd really appreciate it. I tried to find it on the link given above but I couldn't figure out how, sorry still learning.

errorxp · #11 29th July 2012, 09:29 PM

Try

Code:

su -c "yum install --nogpgcheck ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/updates/9/i386/rpmfusion-free-release-9-12.noarch.rpm ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/updates/9/i386/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-9-12.noarch.rpm"

P38Lightning · #12 30th July 2012, 01:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by errorxp

Try

Code:

su -c "yum install --nogpgcheck ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/updates/9/i386/rpmfusion-free-release-9-12.noarch.rpm ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/updates/9/i386/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-9-12.noarch.rpm"

Thank you, sorry I didn't get back to say that I found it. Thanks guys for all of your help.