How To Install RPM Fusion on Fedora 35

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install RPM Fusion on Fedora 35. For those of you who didn’t know, The RPM Fusion software repo is a community-maintained software repo that provides additional packages for Fedora Linux which is not distributed by the official Fedora team. RPM Fusion’s goal is to make the end-user experience as simple as possible by centralizing as much add-on software as feasible. The RPM Fusion repository comes in two variants, Free and Non-Free. The free repository contains a free version of the software that is open source and non-free, which have mostly almost all free software but are closed source and mainly proprietary.

This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of RPM Fusion on a Fedora 35.

Prerequisites

• A server running one of the following operating systems: Fedora 35 or Fedora 34.
• It’s recommended that you use a fresh OS install to prevent any potential issues
• A non-root sudo user or access to the root user. We recommend acting as a non-root sudo user, however, you can harm your system if you’re not careful when acting as the root.

Install RPM Fusion on Fedora 35

Step 1. Before proceeding, update your Fedora operating system to make sure all existing packages are up to date. Use this command to update the server packages:

sudo dnf upgrade
sudo dnf update
sudo dnf install dnf-plugins-core

Step 2. Installing RPM Fusion on Fedora 35.

Before you proceed, first check whether you have RPM fusion installed. Open up a terminal and run the below command:

sudo dnf repolist | grep rpmfusion

If it is not installed, you may proceed with the next steps, Now we run the following command to enable the RPM Fusion repository for open-source software:

sudo dnf install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm
sudo dnf install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm

You will then be asked to verify that you want to install these repos. Once you approve it, the installation will be completed in a few seconds or minutes.

Verify RPM Fusion installation:

sudo dnf repolist | grep rpmfusion

Output:

rpmfusion-free                 RPM Fusion for Fedora 35 - Free
rpmfusion-free-updates         RPM Fusion for Fedora 35 - Free - Updates
rpmfusion-nonfree              RPM Fusion for Fedora 35 - Nonfree
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates      RPM Fusion for Fedora 35 - Nonfree - Updates

Step 3. Install Packages Using RPM Fusion Repo.

Once successfully installed, For example, run the following command to install VLC player to your Fedora system:

sudo dnf install vlc-devel

Congratulations! You have successfully enabled RPM Fusion. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing RPM Fusion on your Fedora 35 system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you check the official RPM Fusion website.