Third-Party Repositories
The Fedora Workstation Third Party repositories provide access to additional desktop software that is not included in Fedora’s own repos. The repositories are selected and managed by the Fedora Workstation Working Group, in accordance with FESCo’s third party repository policy.
The third-party repositories exist to provide access to additional software that may be necessary or important for users to have access to. This includes some proprietary software.
While facilitating the use of a small selected set of proprietary software, the Fedora project continues to strongly believe in and promote free and open source software. As a result, third party repositories must be enabled by the user in order to be used, and open source alternatives are suggested below.
How to use
The following are basic instructions for how to use the third-party repositories.
Enabling third-party repositories
To install software from the third-party repositories, they must first be enabled. The easiest way to do this is in the Third-Party Repositories page of initial setup.
Alternative methods to enable the third-party repositories include:
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Through the info bar that is shown in the Software app when third-party repositories are not enabled.
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Enabling Third-Party Repositories in the Software app’s Software Repository settings.
Included software
The following software is included in the third-party repositories:
Name | Description | Repository name | Available since | Open source? | Open source alternatives |
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Bitwarden |
Password manager |
|
F35 |
Yes |
N/A |
Discord |
Messaging, voice and video calls |
|
F35 |
No |
Matrix, Jitsi, others |
Google Chrome |
Web Browser |
|
F25 |
No |
Chromium, Firefox, Web |
Microsoft Teams |
Group chat and calls |
|
F35 |
No |
Matrix, Jitsi, others |
Minecraft |
Game |
|
F35 |
No |
None |
NVIDIA Graphics Driver |
Driver for NVIDIA graphics cards |
|
F28 |
No |
Nouveau: Accelerated Open Source driver for nVidia cards (preinstalled in Fedora) |
Postman |
Developer tool for building and using APIs |
|
F35 |
No |
Insomnia Rest Client |
PyCharm |
Python IDE |
|
F23 |
Yes |
N/A |
Skype |
Messaging, voice and video calls |
|
F35 |
No |
Matrix, Jitsi, others |
Steam |
Gaming platform |
|
F28 |
No |
None |
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