Ok. You have installed Fedora Core 6, but now what? What do you have to do in order to have an up and running system with which you can accomplish your everyday tasks? Let’s find out!
Contents
1. Configure sudo
2. Adding extra repositories
2.1 Livna
2.2 RPMForge repositories
2.2.1 Dries
2.2.2 FreshRPMs
3. Yum
4. Installing nVidia drivers
5. Installing Microsoft fonts
1. Configure ‘sudo’
sudo is a command that can be used by the user to execute a command that must be run with root privileges. Instead of typing every time ‘su’, entering your root password and then do what you want to do as root you can just type ‘sudo command’
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$ su – Password: # echo 'axel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL' >> /etc/sudoers # exit |
If you don’t type NOPASSWD: you will be prompted for root password every time you type the sudo command. In the place of axel put your username.
2. Adding extra repositories
From the repositories you are able to download programs in rpm format ready to be installed.
2.1 Livna
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$ sudo rpm -hiv http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm $ sudo rpm –import http://rpm.livna.org/RPM-LIVNA-GPG-KEY |
2.2 RPMForge repositories
2.2.1 Dries
Create a file to hold the repository data like this
| $ sudo nano /etc/yum.repos.d/dries.rep |
and ddd the following
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[dries] name=Extra Fedora rpms dries - $releasever - $basearch baseurl=http://ftp.belnet.be/packages/dries.ulyssis.org/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/dries/RPMS/ http://apt.sw.be/dries/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/dries/RPMS/ failovermethod=priority enabled=0 gpgcheck= |
Next, download the gpg-key from
| http://dries.ulyssis.org/rpm/RPM-GPG-KEY.dries.txt |
go to the folder you have download it and install it with
| $ sudo rpm --import RPM-GPG-KEY.dries.txt |
2.2.2 Fresh RPMs
Go to http://freshrpms.net/ and download the rpm from the click here link.
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$ sudo rpm -hiv freshrpms-release-1.1-1.fc.noarch.rpm $ sudo rpm --import http://freshrpms.net/RPM-GPG-KEY-freshrpms |
3. Yum
Yum is a package manager used from Fedora to install applications and resolve dependencies. It also searches and removes packages.
- Installing an application
| $ sudo yum install application_name |
- Removing an application
| $ sudo yum remove application_nam |
- Local install an rpm using yum to resolve dependencies
| $ sudo yum localinstall application_name |
- Search for an application
| $ sudo yum search application_name |
- Find info about an application
| $ sudo yum info application_name |
- Updating the whole system
| $ sudo yum update |
- Enabling a repo
| $ sudo yum --enablerepo=[repo_name] |
- Disabling a repo
| $ sudo yum –disablerepo=[repo_name] |
If you are not familiar with console you can use yumex. Yumex is a gui that uses yum to simplify all the above commands. To get it type.
| $ sudo yum install yumex |
4. Installing nVidia drivers.
| $ sudo yum –enablerepo=livna install kmod-nvidia |
5. Installing Microsoft fonts
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$ wget http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/files/msttcorefonts-2.0-1.noarch.rpm $ sudo rpm –hiv msttcorefonts-2.0-1.noarch.rpm |
You’d better log out and log back in for the fonts to be used.
This is the end of part 1. Soon part 2 will be out with info on installing Firefox 64bit with flash and video plugins, some KDE stuff, mp3 and video support and many other! Stay tuned!
