I've just installed FC5. I need mplayer, realplayer, flash, and the jre to play on the internet. Is there any benefit to waiting for the Fedora development team to ready these and include them in the yum listings? I assume they will? If not I can install them myself. With FC4 I had to install realplayer and the jre anyway. Just thought it would be better if eventually yum installed then! thanks -- Larry

The Sun JRE, Flash, Real Player, etc. are all proprietary, and Fedora only ships Free software, so these won't appear in Fedora Project repositories:

http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/ForbiddenItems

Macromedia have approved a third-party repository to supply Flash RPMs for Fedora:

http://macromedia.mplug.org/

Everything you mentioned is already available. It all comes down on the repos you use. I personally recommend combining the following:

1. Fedora Core + Extras (even some very base packages have been moved from core to extras).
2. Freshrpms and Dries (=RPMforge)

I don't recommend using Livna(apart from their nVida packages) since it still conflicts with the RPMforge repos and has less packages (this is just a personal opinion, if you prefer Livna over RPMforge, feel free to use it but be careful with combining them.).

Also see:
http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_cor...tion_notes.htm

PS: Moving some base packages as kernel-devel to extras was IMHO a horrible and stupid idea... (this only works for more modular disigned distros like Debian and Gentoo who don't need third party repos).