NOTE:All Commands to be entered in terminal in Super User/root mode. (.:. su – or sudo)
1) Setup sudo
In Fedora the root and normal user accounts are different and one can switch between them to do administrative tasks.
However if you want to give a user other than root administrative priviliges
nano /etc/sudoers
Add to the end
<name> ALL=(ALL) ALL
is the user name you want to give sudo privilige.
<name> ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
if you dont want to be asked the password .(NOT RECOMMENDED)
2)Permanantly Mounting Partitions:
Fedora 11 has ntfs 3g preinstalled but sometimes the partitions don’t get mounted (or you just may want to get rid of manual mounting)
Editing fstab gives read/write support on boot
a) use fdisk : /sbin/fdisk -l
b) note down partions u wnt to access name (eg sda1) type (eg ntfs or FAT32)
c)Make mount points:
mkdir /media/<name>
<name>can be replaced by whatever name you choose.
d)open gedit in sudo mode
e)Open /etc/fstab
f)For ntfs drive ( mount point here is DATA)
/dev/sda1 /media/DATA ntfs-3g rw,defaults,umask=0000 0 0
or /dev/sda1 /media/DATA ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
if drive is FAT32/FAT16 use vfat instead of ntfs-3g , other lines are NOT REQUIRED
3)Adobe Flash :
For 32 bit:
install the Adobe YUM repository, and install through yum:
rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
rpm –import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux
yum install flash-plugin
(if you dont do this no sound for flash applicatons)
For 64 bit:
There are 2 ways.
OLDER WAY: (NOT NEEDED AS 64 BIT FLASH PLAYER WORKS)
mkdir -p /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
yum install nspluginwrapper.{i386,x86_64} pulseaud/io-lib.i386
yum install flash-plugin
mozilla-plugin-config -i -g -v
NEWER WAY:
Download 64 bit Flash Player 10
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
4) Installing Sun Java
a) Download JDK from http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads
To install rpm
rpm -ivh .rpm
To install bin
chmox +x .bin
./.bin
/usr/sbin/alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /usr/java/jre/bin/java 100
/usr/sbin/alternatives --install /usr/bin/jar jar /usr/java/jre/bin/jar 100
/usr/sbin/alternatives --install /usr/bin/javavc javavc /usr/java/jre/bin/javavc 100
/usr/sbin/alternatives --install /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so 100
b) To use Switch among javas:
/usr/sbin/alternatives --config java
/usr/sbin/alternatives --config libjavaplugin.so
/usr/sbin/alternatives --config jar
c)For Java Programs(You Probably Already Have This):
yum install libXp compat-libstdc++-*
looks like you left a few arguments out on the libjavaplugin.so. The full command is:
alternatives –install /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so libjavaplugin.so /usr/java/latest/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so 100
Thanks!
-Michael