How To Add Software / Packages to Moblin Alpha
January 30th, 2009 by K. T. Bradford 
One of the things we noticed about Moblin was a distinct lack of software choices — not so surprising since it is an alpha release. But since it’s based on a Fedora kernel I wondered if it would be possible to add Fedora repositories to Moblin. Not finding a way to do so from within the Add/Remove Software area, I used my GoogleFu to find directions for installing at least one repository: EPEL or Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux. I was successful in adding it to the Software sources list, but have been unable to install programs due to lack of Parser. But I’m getting closer!
Any of you Linux lovers out there have suggestions on where to go from here? Which repositories should we try to install?
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January 31st, 2009 at 8:47 am
How about trying RPM Fusion:
http://rpmfusion.org/
Which “Parser” do you lack?
February 21st, 2009 at 5:18 pm
Andrew- RPMFusion depends on a release-version package which Moblin doesn’t have.
KT- Here’s what I did to enable the official Fedora repositories on Moblin: Go http://matteocorti.ch/docs/yum-fedora.html and download the ‘fedora.repo’ file to ‘/etc/yum.repos.d’. Edit the file and remove the # before ‘baseurl’, and then change the ‘$releasever’ to ‘10′.
Next, download the official Fedora GPG keys from http://fedoraproject.org/en/keys (I used the Fedora 10 primary key). From the directory with the key text file, run ‘rpm –import 4EBFC273.txt’, assuming you saved the key to 4EBFC273.txt. Now you should be able to install software from the Fedora repositories.
Note that all of that’s pretty hacky and probably not the best way to do it at all, but I’d never seen yum until I installed Moblin. If anyone knows how to properly change the $releasever, please say so. Also, I did this while running yum from the command line. Graphical stuff may behave slightly differently.
February 21st, 2009 at 9:38 pm
Update to that last: Moblin has its own versions of many Fedora packages, so there are many, many dependency issues introduced by simply using their repositories. Usually the RPMs can be installed manually without dependency checking after Yum downloads them, but sometimes things just don’t work.