= Third party repositories

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There are a number of third-party software repositories for Fedora. They
typically have more liberal licensing policies and provide software
packages that Fedora excludes for various reasons. These software
repositories are not officially affiliated or endorsed by the Fedora
Project. Use them at your own discretion. A detailed list is maintained
at https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/39797/[Ask Fedora page]

The following repositories are commonly used by end users and do not
conflict with each other

* http://rpmfusion.org
* http://rpm.livna.org (Complementary to RPM Fusion)

There are a number of other repositories listed below but many of them
are known to explicitly conflict with each other and hence not
recommended unless you are a power user and know the technical aspects
better.

* http://rpmfusion.org/FedoraThirdPartyRepos

[[mixing-third-party-software-repositories]]
Mixing third party software repositories
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We generally do not recommend mixing a lot of third party repositories
since they might conflict with each other causing instability and hard
to debug issues. If you are not a technical user, one safer method is to
not enable the third-party repo by default and instead use the
`--enablerepo` switch for `yum|dnf`, or a similar method configurable in
the graphical package manager. There are a number of yum|dnf plugins for
setting repo priorities or protecting the base packages from being
obsoleted by third party repositories which are helpful to more
technical users.

[[references]]
References
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* http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.advisory-board/3288
* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Objectives
* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Forbidden_items
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