About Mumble RPMs for Fedora 16
Mumble RPMs are a set of Fedora RPM packages for Linux Games sold as part of the Humble Bundles. The Humble Bundles are an excellent idea, however the Linux versions of the games are not always distributed in a cohesive format. This leads to difficulty in getting them to work. Sometimes libraries are missing, sometimes they lack an installer and sometimes things such as sound does not work.Mumble RPMs tries to solve this for you, by doing all the hard work and producing an easily installable RPM. This is achieved by using 'nosrc' RPMs (see the FAQ). The 'nosrc' RPM, in combination with your original software package is used to build a normal binary RPM which can be installed like any other. In order to make use of Mumble RPMs, you must own the original game. You should also be reasonably comfortable with the command line.
Why use Mumble RPMs? Well, that's up to you, but here's some reasons:
- RPM is the standard package format in Fedora. It's familiar to most Fedora users
- The RPMs have dependency tracking. Installing the RPM (via yum), installs any dependenies the game needs
- The RPMs can be easily uninstalled
- RPMs are easily upgraded
- The game is installed system wide for all users and icons are created in the desktop menu
- Install the game on multiple systems easily, your desktop, laptop, netbook etc.
- Where possible the games use the system libraries - not the bundled ones - which improves compatibility
- We do not pollute the system lib directories with the bundled libraries
- If the game needs a "fix" to run or to play sound etc - we integrate it into the RPM
- The RPMs always include an icon for launching the game from the menu