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Amazon RPM Downloader on 64-bit Fedora

June 17, 2009 – 7:06 pm

Commenter Chris points out that my previous instructions assumed a 32-bit version of Fedora. And he is correct; the Amazon MP3 downloader is a 32-bit application. I see no reason it shouldn’t work on a 64-bit OS, provided the 32 bit version of certain libraries are present; these are the libs of interest:
libgtkmm-2.4.so.1 => [...]

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Amazon MP3 Downloader on Fedora 11

May 10, 2009 – 3:58 pm

Amazon was less than understanding about my request for source code for their MP3 downloader. They were prompt and courteous in their response; that alone is rare. They don’t release source, and gosh, why don’t I use a Fedora release on which the downloader has been tested? Well, first, because it’s Fedora 9, two releases [...]

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