Fedora Core 5 Install Notes
Preface: I found a very good Fedora Core 5 installation guide from Mauriat Miranda… The Unofficial Fedora FAQ is also worth having a look at.
As I managed to trash my /boot partition while playing with LVM I decided to do a fresh, clean install of Fedora Core 5. This time I am using Gnome as my preferred window manager as I saw it on a fellow student’s laptop and was just amazed…
So here are a few notes on how to setup some things I am really missing an a fresh FC5 installation:
Get some updates
I recommend using Livna’s yum repository for some additional software. To enable it, you just have to enter this line (as root)
# rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-5.rpm
Oh, and while we’re here, also install the FreshRPMs repo:
# rpm -ivh http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/fedora/linux/5/freshrpms-release/freshrpms-release-1.1-1.fc.noarch.rpm
Then do a yum update
and grab a cup of coffee… or two… or three – I needed to download ~500 MB of updates which took some time even with my 2MBit line. And just in case… don’t mind the number of SELinux messages that appear during the update – everything is alright 😉
Sun Java 1.5.0 SDK
FC5 comes with a GNU Java VM that is… awfully slow. I decided to install Sun’s Java VM which is quite simple thanks to the sipX people.
Run the following commands as root to install the sipX repository and Sun Java SDK:
`# wget -P /etc/yum.repos.d http://www.sipfoundry.org/temp/sipX/3.2/sipx.repo
yum install java-1.5.0 java-devel`
Adobe Reader 7.0.5
Simply grab the RPM provided by Adobe and install it using
# rpm -ivh AdobeReader*.rpm
You might run into the following error
/usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Reader/intellinux/lib/libJP2K.so: cannot restore segment prot after reloc: Permission denied
which is caused by SELinux, so you add a rule for Acrobat’s libraries:
# chcon -t texrel_shlib_t /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Reader/intellinux/lib/*.so
To add PDF support for your Mozilla/Firefox browser, run
# ln -s /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
Additional packages
I installed some more packages for multimedia features and so on:
# yum install bmp-mp3 bmp-aac k3b-extras-nonfree lame unrar libquicktime xvidcore xine xine-lib-devel vlc<br />
(I installed bmp-aac because I ripped my music CDs on my Powerbook using iTunes and converted the audio files to AAC. You might skip this package if you never used or intend to use iTunes/iPod stuff.)
Install Windows video codecs
Grab atrpms.repo and put it into /etc/yum.repos.d
, the install w32codecs
`wget -P /etc/yum.repos.d http://www.jeanpierre.de/m30/fc5/atrpms.repo
yum –enablerepo=atrpms install w32codec`
To be continued…