December 23, 2008
How to Play MP3 with Banshee in your Foresight Linux

One weak point of Foresight Linux is the almost inexistent documentation. Add to this fact a very bad searching feature in the package manager, and you got it: it’s hard to find how to play a simple MP3 with Banshee.

May be it’s because I’m used to aptitude and the high standards of the Ubuntu’s documentation, but every time I need to install something with conary… it’s a nightmare.

After some googling I’ve realized that the gstreamer plugins are packaged as gst-plugin-* (you won’t find them searching for gstreamer plugin; d’oh!). With following command, you’ll be able to play MP3 files:

$ sudo conary update gst-plugins-ugly

I’ve recommended Foresight Linux Mobile to some notebook users, but I’m starting to think Foresight Linux isn’t ready yet.

Update: I’ve added an entry in the FAQ.

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