Fedora 10 Cambridge essentials guide
Well Howdy Folks ! ,thou having trouble with getting Fedora 10 Cambridge Up and Running ?
Well then you have come to the right place !!!
NOTE:all commands r to be typed in terminal with sudo or su login or su -c
PS: All yum commands can be replaced by package kit alternatives type “info pkcon” in terminal.
1)RPM-FUSION:Adding rpmfusion as a repository to get access to lot of other packages and features.
(VERY ESSENTIAL ALL OTHER STEPS REQUIRE THIS)
rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm
yum update
To install something in command line use
yum install Name of Packages Seperated by spaces -y
of course to find the exact package name use
yum search Package
2)Package Management Frontend GUI :
Fedora already has PackageKit (System>Administration>Add/Remove Software)
but it doesn’t quite compare up to yumex
yum install yumex
3)MP3 Support:
Well, everybody loves their songs right ?
yum install gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-good gstreamer-plugins-pulse libmad libid3tag xine-lib-extras xine-lib-extras-freeworld
4)Music Players:
Everybody has a different choice of a music player , I personally prefer Amarok which has everything from cover management ,id3tag editing,online Music Store Support and Global key Shortcuts.
Few of the most used players.
-Amarok -Audacious -Banshee -Exaile -Listen -Rhythmbox -Xmms
4)GCC compatibility:
GCC is the GNU compiler supporting a lot of languages.Its needed for
yum install gcc gcc-c++ compat-libstdc++-33 compat-libstdc++-296
5)Video Codecs:
Fedora doesn’t with proprietary codecs for playing Codecs.
Download them.
wget http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/all-20071007.tar.bz2
then
mkdir -p /usr/lib/codecs
tar -jxvf all-20071007.tar.bz2 --strip-components 1 -C /usr/lib/codecs/
5)Video Players:
Totem is installed by default but its not a favourite of mine.
Real Player
Download RealPlayer 11 GOLD from: http://www.real.com/linux/. ( preferably use .bin file)
Select: “Advanced Installation RedHat Package”
Before installing RealPlayer, make sure to have the compat-libstdc++-33 compatibility libraries installed.
yum install compat-libstdc++-33
chmod +x name.bin
./name.bin
Read Agreement Go to end and press y and enter (keep pressing enter, till it starts installing)
For RPM:
sudo rpm -ivh RealPlayer11.rpm
note:if real/helix or any plugin doesnt load in firefox use:
sudo /usr/bin/mozilla-plugin-config -i -f
Other Players
mplayer: yum install mplayer mplayer-gui mplayer-skins mplayer-fonts mplayerplug-in mencoder
xine: yum install xine xine-lib-extras xine-lib-extras-nonfree libdvdcss
vlc: yum install vlc
kaffeine yum install kaffeine kdemultimedia kdemultimedia-libs
Dragon : yum install dragon kdemultimedia kdemultimedia-libs
Note: After this if it doesn’t work refer to my other posts
Thanks for this tips which helped me a lot, but I cannot open my vfat partitions as a normal user can you tell me how to do it? it is already mounted and root user can issue `ls` and it lists the contents.
I have a problem with wi-fi in my inspiron 1525 which is installed with fedora 10. Can you solve this problem.
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only thing I could think to add would be java
Thanks , it`s a very clear and well-structured article . It was really helpful.
Regards!
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