Fedora 9 Installation Guide - Yoleung. Chyi. Fedora 9 (SULPHUR) is here! As always it comes along with some new and. Gnome 2. 2. 2. 1, KDE 3.
Open. Office 2. 4, Firefox 3 and Package. Kit, a new cross- distribution (!). I've. written this guide to help new Fedora users to easilly configure their. So, grub a Fedora installation disk and let's move on to our. Note: In this guide I have included screenshots (wherever. Of course the usuall "open terminal and type ..".
Note: The text editor I've been using in this guide is GNOME's. If you are using KDE you may use kate.
Of course the. terminal based text editor, nano, is always a nice choice! Upgrading from Fedora 7/8. Configuring sudo. Configuring yum. Configuring Services.
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- Fedora Linux 由于开发者的问题，导致Sun的JVM在它上面安装和配置都非常困难。这里谈论的和. sudo a lternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /usr/java/jdk1.7.0_02/bin.
Installing video drivers. Installing Microsoft fonts. Configuring Nautilus. Configuring Firefox. Configuring e- mail client. MP3 and Audio players.
DVD & Video. IRC Clients. MSN Messenger Clients. Author, Burn and Back. Up CD/DVDs. Download managers. PDF Readers. Torrent Clients. Other Useful Applications.
Accessing Windows Partitions. Accessing Windows Shares. Compiz- fusion. 1.
Upgrading from Fedora 7/8. A new application has been developed in order to allow Fedora users.
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JAVA Fedora 9 comes with java from the OpenJDK project. It is very easy to install it through yum (if it hasn't already been installed) and it works just fine.. 1. OpenJDK Fedora 9包括了OpenJDK 6， 一个自由软件实现的 Java平台标准版本。OpenJDK 6 尚未获得 Java 兼容性认证（验证工作正在进行中）。 Fedora将跟踪Sun的稳定.
Preupgrade resolves all dependencies, downloads the needed. Install and run Preupgrade by typing. Select Fedora 9 and after a while you'll be asked to reboot in your upgraded Fedora 9 system! Configuring sudo. Note: In my previous Fedora guides I've been using sudo for. However since many users don't. I've decided to change all the.
If you want to type many. After that you become root until you type exit. Of. course it's up to you to configure sudo or not. Modifing sudoers file. Normally if you want to run a command which requires root privileges. However you can bypass this by using the 'sudo' command. But first you have to configure it like this.
Now go below the line. ALL=(ALL) ALLpress a, and type the following. ALL=(ALL) ALLwhere username is the username you use to login. Next press Escape. Now, if you want to be promted for your root password each time you use the sudo command go to this line. ALL=(ALL) ALLand with your cursor pointing on # press x. If you don't want to be promted for your root password each time you use the sudo command go to this line.
ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALLand with your cursor pointing on # press x. Next, press : wq to save and exit. Adding your user to the wheel group. Adding sbin to your PATH. This step is optional but saves you a lot of time since many commands. To avoid this type.
Then change the following line. PATH=$PATH: $HOME/binto. PATH=$PATH: /usr/sbin: /sbin: $HOME/bin. To test if you have done it correctly as a simple user type. If everything is working properly the command should return the word 'root'. Configuring yum. * Basic Commands. Below there are the most common commands you will use for yum, Fedora's.
Package Management System. You can find a more detailed description of. Install an application. Remove an application. Install an rpm from your hard disk using yum to resolve dependencies.
Search for an application. Find info about an application. Update the whole system. Enable a repositorysu - c 'yum - -enablerepo=repo_name'. Disable a repository. Importing Fedora GPG keys. Fedora has 2 basic repositories named 'fedora' and 'updates'.
To use. them and not get errors about unsigned packages you must import their. GPG keys. Open a terminal and type. Third party Repositories. Fedora software repositories don't include support for MP3, DVD and. Video playback/recording because of patent licences.
For this reason. you have to install that software from third party repositories. But. don't worry, this is pretty easy! Now we are going to install the Livna Repository, a third party repo. For. the rest of this guide I will assume that you have installed and. Livna Repository. So, open a terminal and type.
RPM- LIVNA- GPG- KEY'. Graphical Interface for yum. If you don't like typing commands in your console you can use Fedora's.
Graphical interface for yum. You can find it under System - >. Administration - > Add/Remove Software. You can also install yumex for this reason.
Configure yum through Proxy. If you are behind an http proxy server and you want yum to connect to the internet through that proxy open a terminal and type. Add this line in the yum configuration. Don't forget the / after the port number. Save and exit. 4. Configuring Services. You can easilly select which services should run when you boot your.
Fedora's services configuration utility which can be. System - > Administration - > Services. For a detailed description on all services and daemons read my Fedora Services Guide . Installing video drivers. Note: To install many of the following packages you must have the Livna Repository enabled as described here . Installing n. Vidia driver. Normally if you typesu - c 'yum install kmod- nvidia'and you.
D accelaration enabled. However currently there aren't. Fedora 9 because of the new version of Xorg it uses. A solution is to downgrade some packages to their Fedora 8 versions like described in fedoraforum.
Installing ATi driver. Currently there aren't usable drivers for Fedora 9 because of the new version of Xorg it uses. Installing Microsoft fonts. Fedora uses Liberation and Deja. Vu fonts which are installed by default.
If you insist on using the microsoft fonts you can download and install the msttcorefonts rpm like this. I built it myself using the msttcore- fonts- 2. Fedora- devel mailing list. Therefore is ideal for Fedora 8 and 9. It includes Arial.
Andale, Comic Sans, Courier New, Georgia, Impact, Tahoma, Times. Trebuchet MS, Verdana and Webdings fonts. The procedure just in case you want to built it yourself is the following. SPECS/wget http: //www. RPMS/noarch/su - c 'rpm - ivh msttcore- fonts- 2. Now you can change your fonts through System - > Prefereces Look and Feel - > Appearance - > Fonts.
Configuring Nautilus. Open each folder in the same window. Go to System - > Preferences - > Personal - > File Management and. Behavior tab select the Always open in browser windows option. Now you will use the File Browser to navigate through your folders. Open Terminal here.
It's very useful to have an 'Open Terminal here' command to easilly. Nautilus. To do. su - c 'yum install nautilus- open- terminal'log out and then log in, right click in a Nautilus window and you'll see the command. Enable Num Lock on GNOME startupsu - c 'yum install numlockxsu - c 'cp /etc/gdm/Init/Default /etc/gdm/Init/Default_backup'su - c 'gedit /etc/gdm/Init/Default'. And add the following lines at the end of the file. Save and exit. Now restart X server and check if num lock light is on. Configuring Firefox.
Acrobat Plugin. To be able to view pdf documents through Firefox you must have adobe acrobat reader installed as described here. Go to Adobe's site and select the 'Yum for Linux' option. Open the file with the default Package Installer. It will install it for you. Next open the System - > Administartion - > Add/Remove Software and. Select to install the plugin and import the.
GPG key or just type. Finally restart Firefox and type about: plugins in the address bar. You should Shockwave Flash among the plugins. Users of Fedora x. Adobe Flash plugin in x.
Firefox and the. pulseaudio- libs. Create the 3. 2bit mozilla plugin directory using this command.
Install the nspluginwrapper. Install flash- plugin as shown above. Run mozilla- plugin- config to register the flash plugin. Finally restart Firefox and type about: plugins in the address bar. You should Shockwave Flash among the plugins.
Mplayer Plugin. Although Fedora 9 has totem- mozplugin preinstalled it doesn't seem to. I prefer the mplayer plugin for Firefox but at this time there is.
Livna package. To install it type. You should also install additional codecs as described here to support wmv video playback. Fedora 9 comes with java openjdk plugin preinstalled. However you may. face some problems when trying to run certain java applets. For more. information check here . If you don't have it installed type. In case you have upgraded from Fedora 8 you should first remove java- icedtead like this.
You can always install SUN's JRE as described here. In the address bar type. Right click somewhere and select NEW and then STRING.
Type this in the box. Click ok and in the box type the program you want to open the streaming media with, such as /usr/bin/mplayer. Next right click again and select NEW and then BOOLEAN. Type this in the box.
Click ok and then type. Set backspace button. By default in Fedora's Firefox when you press the backspace button it.
If you want backspace to take you to the previous page. Filter box type. browser. Right click on it, select Modify and change its value from 2 to 0. Restart Firefox and the backspace will be set.
Configuring e- mail client. Fedora 9 has evolution as the default e- mail client. Of course you can install Thunderbird if you prefer it.
Just type. su - c 'yum install Thunderbird'. Now you can find Thunderbird under Applications - > Internet - >. Thunderbird Mail Client. To make it the default Fedora mail client go. System - > Preferences - > Personal - > Preferred Applications. Mail Reader select Thunderbird Mail. MP3 and Audio players**Note: To install many of the following packages you must have the Livna Repository enabled as described here .
The first time you will try to play an mp. Totem Movie PLayer will. Proprietary formats. Here you can download the free fluendo mp. However fluendo doesn't allow you to encode mp. In that case you can install mp. Livna as shown below.
At any time you can uninstall the fluendo codec simply by typing. I believe that Rhythmbox is a better mp. Totem. for Gnome users. You can find it under Applications - > Sound &. Video - > Rhythmbox Music Player. If you don't have it, to install it.
To make all mp. 3 files open by default with Rhytmbox right click on an. Open with Other Application..'. Click on Rhytmbox. Music Player and you're done. To add mp. 3 and other audio support type.
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