Installing Banshee: Linux Alternative to iTunes on Fedora Core 6

Banshee can be found on Fedora Core 6 Extra repository

1. # yum -y install banshee

Banshee by default doesnt have gstreamer mp3 plugin support. First install gstreamer-plugins-bad and gstreamer-plugins-ugly. We must have the repository from Freshrpms

2. wget http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/fedora/linux/6/
freshrpms-release/freshrpms-release-1.1-1.fc.noarch.rpm

3. rpm -ihv freshrpms-release-1.1-1.fc.noarch.rpm

4. yum -y install gstreamer-plugins-bad

5. yum -y install gstreamer-plugins-ugly

That's it!!! You have now mp3 support!!!

Banshee Playlist

Synchronizing Ipod using Banshee