Fedora 10 Cambridge Essentials Guide Part 1: Getting Started

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

Using Mandriva 2009 , GeexBox 1.2 beta

I think its a kernel issue with 2.6.27 that acpi is switched on unsupported bios models.

Hence In Mandirva 2009

boot to live cd Press F3 then F4 select acpi=off. (Or the system will crawl)

If you are not able to get a GUI boot like me then ..

1)login with username  root

2)run drakX11 then configure various your graphics card and Resolution (Dont forget to use the ‘Test’ option)

(For ATI x1250 use fglrx (faster) or radeonhd (slower))

3) After install  edit /boot/grub/menu.lst

and add acpi=off to your options in kernel line if ts not there already

GeexBox 1.2 beta

Same story

While booting press ‘TAB’ add acpi=off in kernel line.

Currently HDMode doesn’t work with many Graphics Cards like ATI x1250 (again xorg issues)

so Start in non HD mode only.

Vista Partitioning Guide V1.0

Here is a guide meant for people who have limited or no experience with disk management tools.

It also explains in how to get around the Vista Partition Shrinking Problem .(It doesnt let you shrink to an amount close to available free space)

Click Here

Running Wifi on Ubuntu 8.10 (HP 6515b)

Intrepid Ibex comes with the Broadcom STA driver which has wl.ko module but ssb and b43 modules r loaded..

Add folowing lines to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

blacklist ssb

blacklist b43

Reboot and check if your wifi is working or not .

If not (and the modules still got loaded into memory)

delete following modules

/lib/modules/’uname -r ‘/kernel/drivers/ssb/ssb.ko

and

/lib/modules/’uname -r ‘/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/b43/b43.ko

Running Ubuntu 8.10 HP 6515b

Stuck up at boot in Intrepid Ibex ?

In Live CD press F6 to get boot options add

acpi=off

AND in hp6515b (maybe others with such unsupported bios) also add

pnpbios=off

After install add to your /boot/grub/menu.lst to the line with kernel

acpi=off

pnpbios=off (only with unsupported bios add this)