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Fedora Core 6 Up and Running Part 1

Written by axel

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!

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’

$ 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

$ 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

[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.

$ sudo rpm -hiv freshrpms-release-1.1-1.fc.noarch.rpm

$ sudo rpm --import http://freshrpms.net/RPM-GPG-KEY-freshrpms

**Caution** Do not mix the Livna repository with the RPMForge repositories. They pack rpms in a different way and you may mess up your system.

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

$ 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!

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