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I really love the Exaile gnome music player, and not so long ago version 0.3.0 was released. First thing i did was of course wget && tar xzvf && make && su -c ‘make install’ ;-) but… I’d rather have a version from the repository, to update it easily. As no package for Fedora 11 seemed to be planed or built anytime soon (as seen on the fedora package homepage) If your familiar with fedora you propably know that rawhide is the name of the “upcoming fedora”, in my case fc12. It would be a really bad idea to just switch this repository on as I’d get a very unstable system (rawhide is still alpha, released just some days ago!)… But there is a simple trick with yum you can use to update just what you want with what repos you want: yum update exaile --enablerepo=rawhideNeedless to say, it worked like a charm… ;-)

Now the downsides… Exaile 0.3.0 is still very fresh, and doesn’t have an equaliser and some other stuff that didn’t make it into 0.3.0 and it’s not supported by the gnome music applet which i really love, ah well, I can allways downgrade back to the exaile in the fc11 repo ;-)