Fedora Core 3 Linux Installation Notes

These instructions assume a dual boot Windows and Fedora i386
to i686 system with an nVidia GeForce graphics card, an "always on" LAN or
broadband connection configured "DHCP", and at least 10 GB of free disk space
for the Fedora partition. For the most part the steps should be followed in the
order that they were written because certain programs must be installed and
certain configurations made in order to facilitate later steps.

Installation

Firefox and
Thunderbird

nVidia

True Type Fonts

Java

Flash

RealPlayer

A warning about
mixing repositories

Yum

Apt and Synaptic

Acrobat Reader

MPlayer, Xmms,
Rhythmbox, Xine, and Kaffeine

NTFS support

Bittorrent and
bittorrent-gui

Azureus for
bittorrent

Web Server

PHP and Perl

MySQL

phpMyAdmin

Resources

by Stanton Finley, revised February 11th, 2005

be
sure to check here often for updates to this document...

Installation:

Download and
burn
the five Fedora Core 3 CDs from iso
images from your nearest
mirror site. (You
should get FC3-i386-disc1.iso, FC3-i386-disc2.iso, FC3-i386-disc3.iso,
FC3-i386-disc4.iso and FC3-i386-rescuecd.iso.)

Partition your hard disk with something like one of the disk partition
creation/editing tools on the System Rescue CD available at
http://www.sysresccd.org/. You could
also use a commercial product such as
PartitionMagic.
You may leave the partition that you wish to use for Fedora as unformatted
space. The installation program will format this partition, create swap space
within it, and make a directory structure.

Configure your bios settings to boot first from the CD drive.

Insert the first Fedora Core 3 CD and reboot your machine.

At the boot prompt hit enter.

Hit enter for "ok" to test your CD media or right arrow key and enter to
skip this test. (I recommend testing your media to determine if your CDs are
properly burned.)

Click "next" at the "welcome" page.

Click "next" at the "language selection" page for default English.

Click "next" at the "keyboard configuration" page for default U. S.
English.

Select "custom" on the "installation type" page. Click "next".

Select "automatically partition" on the "disk partitioning setup" page.
Click "next". If you elect to manually edit your partition with Disk Druid,
double click on the partition, select the "swap" file type, and configure your
swap space size to equal about twice your computer's physical memory size.
Double click on the remainder of the partition to configure it as a Linux ext3
file system. At minimum you must designate this remaining space (probably
/dev/hda2) as the root "/" partition mount point.

Select "keep all partitions and use existing free space" on the "automatic
partitioning" page. Click "next".

Click "next" on the "disk setup" page.

Check the "other" check box on the "boot loader configuration" page. Click
"edit". Type "Windows" in the "label" box and uncheck the "default boot
target" check box. Click "ok".

Click the "default" check box next to "Fedora Core" to make it your
default boot operating system. Click "next".

Leave "eth0" and hostname "automatically via DHCP" on the "network
configuration" page. Click "next".

Leave "enable firewall" selected on the "firewall configuration" page and
click the check boxes for "ssh", "http", "https", "ftp" and "smtp". Leave
"Enable SELinux" "active". Click "next".

Click "next" at the "additional language support" page for default
"English (USA)".

Click on the map for your location on the "time zone selection" page.
Click "next".

Set your preferred root password on the "set root password" page. Click
"next".

You will see a message "reading package information".

Scroll down the "package group selection" page and click in the
"everything" box under "miscellaneous". Click "next". (There has been some
criticism from some quarters regarding the fact that I recommend doing an
"everything" installation. From my point of view there are several good
reasons to do so: 1. There are many wonderful packages in a Fedora Core
"everything" installation including a web server and all the packages needed
to make it work with modern scripting language support. [I describe how to set
up a web server with all the bells and whistles below.] Installing everything
supplies the novice with a huge Linux playground containing thousands of great
programs to explore. 2. If you install everything there will be no question
that package dependencies and inter-dependencies are met. Everything will be
there and everything will "just work" if you follow the yum and apt guidelines
below. 3. Why not install everything? In this day and age bandwidth and disk
space are cheap and plentiful.)

You will see a message "checking dependencies..."

Click "next" on "about to install" page.

Click "continue" to get to the "installing packages" page. You will
eventually be prompted to insert the remainder of the installation CDs. (It
took about an hour to install "everything" on my system.)

When the installation is complete remove the last CD and click "reboot"
for the first boot screen.

Click "next" on the "welcome" page.

Click the appropriate radio button to agree to the license agreement and
click "next".

If you are already connected to an "always on" LAN or broadband connection
click on the "network time protocol" tab, click in the "enable network time
protocol" check box, click the down arrow in the "server" box, select
"clock.redhat.com" , click "add" and click "next".

On the "display" page select your preferred screen resolution and color
depth based upon the capabilities of your monitor. Click "next".

On the "system user" page choose a user name (in lower case, not "root"),
a full name (any case), and a password for that default user. Click "next".

Click "play test sound" on the "sound card" page to test your sound
system. Your should hear three chords in sequence. If you don't you can try to
configure your sound card later. Click "next".

Click "next" on the "additional CDs" page.

Click "next" on the "finish setup" page.

Click "log in anyway" if a Gnome error message appears on first boot. We
will correct this later.

When Fedora finishes booting to the graphical interface click on the top
panel, hold your left mouse button down, drag the top panel to the bottom of
the screen, and release the mouse button.

Click "Applications" > "System Tools". Right click on "Terminal" and
select "Add this launcher to panel".

Right click on the terminal icon on the bottom panel and select "move".
Move the icon to the left near the separator bar and click to position it
there.

Click on the terminal icon. This will open the terminal.

Type:
```
gedit /boot/grub/grub.conf
```

Revise the "hiddenmenu" and "kernel" lines in grub.conf so that your file
looks like this:
```
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
#          root (hd0,1)
#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
#          initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=1
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
#hiddenmenu
title Memtest86+ v1.27
	kernel /memtest86+-1.27
title Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.667)
	root (hd0,1)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 vga=788 selinux=0
	initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img
title Windows
	rootnoverify (hd0,0)
	chainloader +1
```
Disabling the "hiddenmenu" with the "#" comment and removing "rhgb quiet"
from the kernel line will cause the menu to select Windows or Fedora to
display immediately upon boot and will also disable the graphical boot screens
so that you will see the boot sequence scroll by in text. You may also choose
to disable SELinux by including "selinux=0" on the kernel line. Leave out the
"selinux=0" if you wish to keep SELinux enabled. If you choose to use SELinux
(Security Enhanced Linux) there are two good articles about it at

http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/selinux-faq-fc3/ and

http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/selinux-apache-fc3/. Click on the "save"
icon in gedit and close it. Close the terminal.

Click on "Applications" > "System Settings" > "Server Settings" >
"Services" and deselect system services that you will not immediately use.
When you click on each of them you will see a description as to what they are
for. If you're not sure, leave them in there. (I deselected "anacron", "apmd",
"atd", "cpuspeed", "canna", "cups", "cups-config-daemon", "hpoj",
"irqbalance", "mDNSResponder", "mdmonitor", "nfs", "nfslock", "nifd",
"pcmcia", "rpcgssd", "rpcidmapd", "rpcsvcgssd" and "sendmail".) Click the
"save" icon and close the service configuration screen.

Open the terminal and type:
```
gedit /etc/hosts
```
Place your cursor after "localhost" and hit tab. Then type in the
characters that appear on your root terminal screen after "root@" up to but
not including the space and tilde (~). When you are finished, your hosts file
should look something like this:
```
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1		localhost.localdomain localhost	x1-6-00-04-5a-5e-ac-83
```
Click on the "save" icon in gedit and close it. This will eliminate the
Gnome error message that appears on boot-up on some systems.

In the root terminal type:
```
gedit /etc/modprobe.conf
```
Add these lines to the bottom of the file:
```
alias net-pf-10 off
alias ipv6 off
```
Add a carriage return if required. (There should be a blank line at the
bottom of these files.) Click on the "save" icon in gedit and close it. This
will speed up browsing and file transfers in some cases by decreasing DNS
lookup time.

Click on "Applications" > "System Settings" > "Login Screen". Click on the
"login user automatically after a specified number of seconds" check box. Type
your default user name that you selected during installation (lower case, not
"root") in the "timed login username" box and select "5 seconds before login".
Click "close".

Click "Actions" > "Log Out" > "Restart the computer" and click "ok".

After boot up you should be logged in as the default user. Click on the
top panel, hold your left mouse button down, drag the top panel to the bottom
of the screen, and release the mouse button.

Click the red flashing up2date icon in the lower right. Click "launch
up2date". Type in your root password and click "ok". Click "ok" again. Click
on "yes" to install the key. Click "forward". Click "forward" again. After the
headers are downloaded click on the "select all packages" check box and click
"forward". You will see a progress dialog "testing package set / solving RPM
dependencies". When this is complete the updates will be downloaded. (This may
take a very long time depending upon your connection speed the first time you
run up2date and you may think that your installation has hung but it actually
has not. If you don't have the patience for this read the "Yum" section below
and do a "yum update" as root instead.) Click "forward" to install the updates
and "forward" again to complete. You may want to reboot at this time.

Firefox and Thunderbird:

Firefox is now the
default web browser in Fedora Core Linux and Thunderbird is included as an
email client. For Thunderbird go to "Applications" > "Internet" > "Thunderbird
Email". You can choose Thunderbird as your default email client by going to
"Applications" > "Preferences" > "More Preferences" > "Preferred Applications"
and selecting "Thunderbird Mail" in the drop-down menu under the Mail Reader
tab.

nVidia: (Use this section only if you have an
nVidia GeForce graphics card.)

Type:
```
gedit /boot/grub/grub.conf
```
If you have not already done so, remove "rhgb quiet" from the kernel line
in grub.conf. Click the "save" button and then exit gedit. This will disable
the "Red Hat Graphical Boot" at boot time which would otherwise interfere with
the nVidia installation described below.

Open Firefox (the "mouse and world" icon on the bottom left). Go to

http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1.0-6629.html and download

NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1.run. (Select "save to disk".) This should
save the file to the /root directory.

Open the terminal and type:

gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

In the "module" section comment out (put a "#" in front of) load "dri" so
that it reads # load "dri". In the "device" section change "nv" to "nvidia".

Section "Module"
	Load  "dbe"
	Load  "extmod"
	Load  "fbdevhw"
	Load  "glx"
	Load  "record"
	Load  "freetype"
	Load  "type1"
#	Load  "dri"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "Videocard0"
	Driver      "nvidia"
	VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
	BoardName   "NVIDIA GeForce 4 MX (generic)"
EndSection

Click the "save" icon and exit gedit.

With the root terminal still open type:
```
gedit /etc/rc.local
```
At the end of the file add the line:
```
/sbin/modprobe nvidia
```
Add a carriage return as well if necessary to insure that there is a blank
line at the bottom of the file. Click on the "save" icon and exit gedit. Close
the terminal.

Click "Actions" > "Log Out" > "Restart the computer" and click "ok". When
Fedora reboots it will try to load the nVidia driver (which has been
downloaded but not yet installed). You will see the command line login prompt
3 or 4 times as it continues to try to load the driver and then you will see a
text mode screen with the message "...cannot start the x server...". Answer
"no" (right arrow and enter) to the question "would you like to view the x
server output?". Answer "no" to the question "would you like me to run the x
configuration program?". Answer "ok" to "...disable the x server for now...".
You will then be presented with a text mode command line login prompt. Log in
as root, type "ls" and hit enter. You should see the nVidia driver file that
you downloaded previously. Type:
```
sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1.run
```
Hit enter. You will be presented with a text mode nVidia screen. Left arrow
to "accept" and hit enter. Answer "yes" to "download...". Answer "ok" to "no
matching kernel...". Answer "ok" to "warning - your kernel was...". Disregard
the "rivafb" warning. It won't affect your installation. nVidia will build and
install a kernel module for the nVidia driver. When the "...complete" screen
appears hit enter on "ok", then type "reboot" and hit enter. You should see
the nVidia splash screen when Fedora reboots indicating that the installation
was successful.

Now if you wish to get rhgb (Red Hat Graphical Boot) working again open a
terminal and type:
```
su -
```
Hit enter, type your root password and hit enter. Type:
```
cp -a /dev/nvidia* /etc/udev/devices
```
Hit enter. Type:
```
chown root.root /etc/udev/devices/nvidia*
```
Hit enter. Type:
```
gedit /etc/rc.local
```
Remove the "/sbin/modprobe nvidia" line from rc.local, click on the "save"
icon, and exit gedit. Type:
```
gedit /boot/grub/grub.conf
```
Add "rhgb quiet" back into the kernel line in grub.conf, click on the
"save" icon, and exit gedit. Reboot. (If you upgrade your kernel be sure to
remove "rhgb quiet" from grub.conf before you reboot into the new kernel. Then
you can re-install the nVidia driver per these instructions again for the new
kernel.)

True Type Fonts:

Open Firefox. Go to

http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-fc3.shtml#ttf and download
(save to disk)
http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/files/msttcorefonts-1.3-3.noarch.rpm.

Click on the terminal icon. This will open the terminal. Type:
```
su
```
Hit enter, type your root password and hit enter. (This gives you root
privileges in the terminal even though you are still in the default user's
home directory. Type:
```
rpm -ivh *.rpm
```
Hit enter. Wait for the installation to complete. Type:
```
rm *.rpm
```
Hit enter. Type "y" and hit enter. (This deletes the downloaded RPM file in
your home directory, however the program is already installed into your
system.) Close the terminal. Reboot your machine.

Java:

Open Firefox. Go to
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html, click on

Download J2SE JRE, click the radio button to accept the license agreement,
click "continue", under "Linux Platform" click on "RPM in self-extracting
file", to download

j2re-1_4_2_07-linux-i586-rpm.bin.

Open the terminal. Type:
```
su
```
Hit enter. Type your root password. Hit enter. Type:
```
sh *.bin
```
Hold the enter key down until the yes/no line appears to allow you to agree
to the license agreement. Type "yes" and hit enter. Type:
```
rpm -ivh *.rpm
```
Hit enter. Wait for the installation to complete. Type:
```
rm *.rpm
```
Hit enter. Type "y" and hit enter. Type:
```
rm *.bin
```
Hit enter. Type "y" and hit enter. Type:
```
su -
```
Hit enter. This gives you root privileges and also puts you in the /root
directory. Type:
```
ln -s /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_07/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so
```
Hit enter. Close the terminal. Close and restart Firefox to enable the java
plugin. You could go to
http://rochester.speedtest.frontiernet.net/ and click the start button to
test your java plugin installation.

If you wish to run Java applications such as
JAlbum or Azureus for
bittorrent and you have installed the Sun J2SE JRE as described above, open a
terminal and type:

su -

Hit enter. Type your root password. Hit enter. Type:

gedit /etc/profile.d/java.sh

Hit enter. In gedit type these lines:

export J2RE_HOME=/usr/java/j2re1.4.2_07
export PATH=$J2RE_HOME/bin:$PATH

Be sure to enter a carriage return after these lines. Click on the "save"
icon in gedit and exit gedit. In the terminal (which should still be open)
type:

source /etc/profile.d/java.sh

Hit enter. Type:

which java

Hit enter. You should see:

/usr/java/j2re1.4.2_07/bin/java

Type:

alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_07/bin/java 3

Hit enter. Type:

alternatives --config java

Hit enter. You should see:

There are 3 programs which provide 'java'.

  Selection    Command
-----------------------------------------------
   1           /usr/share/java/libgcj-java-placeholder.sh
*+ 2           /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.4.2-gcj/bin/java
   3           /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_07/bin/java

Enter to keep the current selection[+], or type selection number:

Type:

Hit enter. Type:

/usr/sbin/alternatives --display java

Hit enter. You should see:

java - status is manual.
 link currently points to /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_07/bin/java
...

You should now be able to install and run Java applications.

Flash:

Open Firefox. Go to

http://sluglug.ucsc.edu/macromedia/site_ucsc.html and download (save to
disk) the

flash-plugin for Fedora Core 3.

Open the terminal. Type:
```
su
```
Hit enter. Type your root password. Hit enter. Type:
```
rpm -ivh *.rpm
```
Hit enter. Click "accept" in the license agreement windows that appears.
Wait for the installation to complete. Type:
```
rm *.rpm
```
Hit enter. Type "y" and hit enter. Close the terminal. Close and restart
Firefox to enable the flash plugin, go to

http://www.argosycruises.com/flash.cfm to test your flash plugin
installation.

RealPlayer:

Open Firefox. Go to
http://www.real.com/linux/ and download (save to disk) the

RealPlayer10GOLD.rpm package.

Open the terminal. Type:
```
su
```
Hit enter. Type your root password. Hit enter. Type:
```
rpm -ivh *.rpm
```
Hit enter. Wait for the installation to complete. Type:
```
rm *.rpm
```
Hit enter. Type "y" and hit enter. Close the terminal. Close and restart
Firefox to enable the RealPlayer plugin, go to
http://www.npr.org/, click on "NPR Program Stream", select "Listen to NPR
audio with the Real player" to test your RealPlayer plugin installation.

Special warning regarding mixing incompatible
repositories for up2date, yum, apt, and synaptic:

Before you continue please keep the following in mind: You should not use
the livna.org/fedora extras repositories in conjunction with the
dag/freshrpms/dries/newrpms/PlanetCCRMA (RPMforge) collection of rpms in your
configuration files for automatic updates. Use one group or the other but not
both. You should be made aware that there are two â€œschoolsâ€ of rpm packagers
for Fedora Core extra applications. I refer to these as the â€œAmericanâ€ and
â€œEuropeanâ€ camps. The â€œAmericanâ€ camp consists of the livna.org/fedora extras
repositories and the â€œEuropeanâ€ camp consists of the
dag/freshrpms/dries/newrpms/PlanetCCRMA (RPMforge) repositories. One of the
most common causes of errors and failures in a new Fedora Core installation is
the mixing of these two incompatible repository collections for automatic
updates. These two camps of rpm repositories are, for the most part, mutually
exclusive and in some cases will cause serious errors in your installation if
used together. It is unfortunate that these two groups have not found some
common ground for consensus and have not gotten together and made their
repositories compatible with one another. I myself subscribe to the â€œEuropeanâ€
camp as you can see in my yum and apt repository selection instructions below.
The dag/freshrpms/dries/newrpms/PlanetCCRMA (RPMforge) repositories have
provided me with all of the programs I have needed as additions to the Fedora
base. Some additional information can be found
here.

Yum:

Open the terminal. Type:

su -

Hit enter. Type your root password. Hit enter. Type:

gedit /etc/yum.repos.d/dag.repo

Type the following in gedit:

[dag]
name=Dag RPM Repository for Fedora Core
baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/fedora/$releasever/en/$basearch/dag/
enabled=1
#gpgcheck=1

Be sure there is a carriage return (blank line) at the bottom of the file.
Click the "save" icon in gedit and then close gedit. Type the following in the
root terminal:

gedit /etc/yum.repos.d/freshrpms.repo

Type the following in gedit:

[core]
name=FreshRPMS-Core
baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/core
enabled=1
#gpgcheck=1
#[extras]
#name=Fedora Linux $releasever - $basearch - extras
#baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/extras
#enabled=0
#gpgcheck=1
#[alternatives]
#name=Fedora Linux $releasever - $basearch - alternatives
#baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/alternatives
#enabled=0
#gpgcheck=1
[updates]
name=FreshRPMS-Updates
baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/updates
enabled=1
#gpgcheck=1
[freshrpms]
name=FreshRPMS-Fresh
baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/freshrpms
enabled=1
#gpgcheck=1

Be sure there is a carriage return (blank line) at the bottom of the file.
Click the "save" icon in gedit and then close gedit.

While still in the root terminal type:
```
rpm --import http://dag.wieers.com/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
```
Hit enter. Type:
```
rpm --import http://freshrpms.net/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.txt
```
Hit enter. Type:
```
rpm --import /usr/share/doc/fedora-release-*/*GPG-KEY*
```
Hit enter. You have just imported the GPG keys for your yum repositories.
Type:
```
yum update
```
Hit enter. Your system will be updated. Answer "y" for "yes" in the
appropriate places. Reboot.

Apt and Synaptic:

Enable the repositories as described above for Yum, then simply open a
terminal and type:
```
su -
```
Hit enter. Type your root password. Hit enter. Type:
```
yum install apt
```
Hit enter. Wait for the installation to complete. Type:
```
yum install synaptic
```
Hit enter. Wait for the installation to complete. Type:
```
gedit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/dag.list
```
If there is nothing in this file (blank page), type the following in gedit:
```
# Name: Dag RPM Repository
# URL: http://dag.wieers.com/apt/

### Dag RPM Repository for Fedora Core
rpm http://apt.sw.be fedora/3/en/i386 dag
```
Be sure there is a carriage return (blank line) at the bottom of the file.
Click the "save" icon in gedit and then close gedit. While still in the root
terminal, type:
```
gedit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/freshrpms.list
```
If there is nothing in this file (blank page), type the following in gedit:
```
# Name: FreshRPMS
# URL: http://ayo.freshrpms.net/

### Fedora Core
rpm http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386 freshrpms
```
Be sure there is a carriage return (blank line) at the bottom of the file.
Click the "save" icon in gedit and then close gedit. While still in the root
terminal, type:
```
gedit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/newrpms.list
```
If there is nothing in this file (blank page), type the following in gedit:
```
# Name: NewRPMS
# URL: http://newrpms.sunsite.dk/

### Fedora Core
rpm http://newrpms.sunsite.dk/apt/ redhat/en/i386/fc3 newrpms
```
Be sure there is a carriage return (blank line) at the bottom of the file.
Click the "save" icon in gedit and then close gedit. While still in the root
terminal, type:
```
gedit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/dries.list
```
If there is nothing in this file (blank page), type the following in gedit:
```
# Name: Dries RPM Repository
# URL: http://dries.studentenweb.org/apt/

### Fedora Core
rpm http://apt.sw.be dries/fedora/fc3/i386 dries
```
Be sure there is a carriage return (blank line) at the bottom of the file.
Click the "save" icon in gedit and then close gedit. While still in the root
terminal, type:
```
rpm --import http://dries.studentenweb.org/ayo/RPM-GPG-KEY.dries.txt
```
Hit enter. Type:
```
rpm --import http://dag.wieers.com/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
```
Hit enter. Type:
```
rpm --import http://freshrpms.net/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.txt
```
Hit enter. Type:
```
rpm --import http://newrpms.sunsite.dk/gpg-pubkey-newrpms.txt
```
Hit enter. You have just imported the GPG keys for your apt repositories.
Type:
```
apt-get update
```
Your apt repository package list will be updated. Close the terminal.
Reboot.

After you have rebooted go to "Applications" > "System Settings" >
"Synaptic package manager". You will be asked to enter your root password. In
Synaptic click on the "reload" icon to update your package list. You may now
add programs to your Fedora Core installation by scrolling down the package
list and checking appropriate check boxes for packages that you wish to add.
When you are finished selecting them, click "apply".

Acrobat Reader:

You must have Yum, Apt, and Synaptic configured as described above to
implement this step. Go to "Applications" > "System Settings" > "Synaptic
package manager". You will be asked to enter your root password. In Synaptic
click on the "reload" icon to update your package list. Scroll down the "all"
list until you come to "acroread" and click its check box, then click "apply".
Acrobat reader will be installed.

MPlayer, Xmms, Rhythmbox, Xine, and Kaffeine
- all you need for multimedia:

You must have Yum, Apt, and Synaptic configured as described above to
implement this step. Go to "Applications" > "System Settings" > "Synaptic
package manager". You will be asked to enter your root password. In Synaptic
click on the "reload" icon to update your package list. Scroll down the "all"
list and click in the check boxes for "gstreamer", "gstreamer-devel",
"gstreamer-plugins", "gstreamer-plugins-devel",
"gstreamer-plugins-extra-audio", "gstreamer-tools", "kaffeine", "mplayer",
"mplayer-fonts", "mplayer-skins", "xine", "xine-lib", "xine-lib-devel",
"xine-skins", and "xmms-mp3". Then click "apply".

Open "Applications" > "Sound & Video" > "Audio Player". (This is xmms.)
Click on the upper left corner down arrow. Go to "Options" > "Preferences".
Select "MPEG Layer 1/2/3 Player..." and make sure that "Enable plugin" check
box is checked. You may now play mp3s and streaming mp3 files with xmms (Audio
Player) or if you like Rhythmbox (Music Player) you may use it to play your
mp3 library. You could go to
http://wholewheatradio.org/ to test your xmms mp3 installation. (The
executable is /usr/bin/xmms.)

Open Firefox, go to

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/ and download (save to
disk)

all-20050115.tar.bz2.

Open the terminal. Type:
```
su
```
Hit enter. Type your root password. Hit enter. Type:
```
mkdir temp
```
Hit enter. Type:
```
mv *.bz2 temp
```
Hit enter. Type:
```
cd temp
```
Hit enter. Type:
```
tar xvfj *.tar.bz2
```
Hit enter. Type:
```
cd all-20050115
```
Hit enter. Type:
```
mkdir /usr/local/lib/codecs/
```
Hit enter. Type:
```
cp *.* /usr/local/lib/codecs/
```
Hit enter. Type:
```
cd /usr/local/lib/codecs/
```
Hit enter. Type:
```
chmod 755 /usr/local/lib/codecs/*
```
Hit enter. Type:
```
ln -s /usr/local/lib/codecs /usr/lib/win32
```
Hit enter. Type:
```
ln -s /usr/local/lib/codecs /usr/lib/codecs
```
The codecs for MPlayer, Xine and Kaffeine are now installed.

Open Firefox, go to

http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/fedora/3/RPMS.stable/ and
download (save to disk)

kaffeine-mozilla-0.2-0.2.3.kde.i386.rpm.

Open the terminal. Type:
```
su
```
Hit enter. Type your root password. Hit enter. Type:
```
rpm -Uvh *.rpm
```
Hit enter.
```
rm *.rpm
```
Hit enter. Type "y" and hit enter. Close the terminal. Close and restart
Firefox to enable the Kaffeine plugin. Reboot.

NTFS support (for mounting your Windows
partition):

Open the terminal. Type:
```
su
```
Hit enter. Type your root password. Hit enter. Type:
```
uname -r -p
```
This will output your kernel version and processor type.

Open Firefox. Go to

http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/rpm/fedora3.html and download (save to
disk) the appropriate NTFS RPM for your kernel version and processor type.
(These instructions will help you find the correct RPM:

http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/rpm/instructions.html.)

With the root terminal still open type:
```
rpm -ivh *.rpm
```
Hit enter. Wait for the installation to complete. Type:
```
rm *.rpm
```
Hit enter. Type "y" and hit enter. Type:
```
su -
```
Hit enter. Type:
```
mkdir /mnt/windows
```
Hit enter. Type:
```
fdisk -l /dev/hda
```
Hit enter. This will output your HPFS/NTFS partition identifier. Type:
```
gedit /etc/fstab
```
Type the following in gedit:
```
/dev/hda1	/mnt/windows	ntfs	ro,defaults,umask=0222	0 0
```
If your partition identifier is not "/dev/hda1" substitute the correct
characters. Click the "save" icon in gedit and exit gedit. Close the terminal.
Reboot. Your Windows partition should now be available in the file browser
under "/mnt/windows".

Bittorrent and bittorrent-gui:

Open Firefox. Go to

http://www.city-fan.org/ftp/contrib/bittorrent/ and download (save to
disk)

wxPythonGTK2-2.5.2.8-1.fc3.i386.rpm,

BitTorrent-3.4.2-3.fc3.noarch.rpm, and

BitTorrent-gui-3.4.2-3.fc3.noarch.rpm.

Open the terminal. Type:
```
su
```
Hit enter. Type your root password. Hit enter. Type:
```
rpm -Uvh wxPythonGTK2-2.5.2.8-1.fc3.i386.rpm
```
Hit enter. Type:
```
rpm -Uvh BitTorrent-3.4.2-3.fc3.noarch.rpm
```
Hit enter. Type:
```
rpm -Uvh BitTorrent-gui-3.4.2-3.fc3.noarch.rpm
```
Hit enter. Type:
```
su -
```
Hit enter. Type:
```
/sbin/iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --destination-port 6881:6889 -j ACCEPT
```
Hit enter. This adds a rule to open TCP ports 6881 through 6999 in your
firewall. These ports are required by Bittorent. Type:
```
/sbin/iptables-save > /etc/sysconfig/iptables
```
Hit enter. This saves the rule. Type:
```
iptables -L
```
Hit enter. This will output your iptables file so you can see if the rule
was saved. Type:
```
gedit /etc/mailcap
```
Add these lines (and a carriage return) to /etc/mailcap:
```
# bittorrent
application/x-bittorrent; /usr/bin/btdownloadgui.py %s; test=test -n "$DISPLAY"
```
This will allow you to download ".torrent" files with Firefox.

Azureus for bittorrent:

In order to install Azureus you must have previously installed Java and
configured it to run Java applications. (See above.) Open Firefox. Go to

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=84122 and download
(save to disk)

Azureus_2.2.0.2_linux.GTK.tar.bz2.

Open the terminal. Type:
```
su -
```
Hit enter. Type your root password. Hit enter. If you have not already
opened ports for bittorrent as described above Type:
```
/sbin/iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --destination-port 6881:6889 -j ACCEPT
```
Hit enter. This adds a rule to open TCP ports 6881 through 6999 in your
firewall. These ports are required by bittorent and/or Azureus. Type:
```
/sbin/iptables-save > /etc/sysconfig/iptables
```
Hit enter. This saves the rule. Type:
```
iptables -L
```
Hit enter. This will output your iptables file so you can see if the rule
was saved. Type:
```
cd /home/your_user_name
```
Hit enter. Type:
```
tar xvfj *.tar.bz2
```
Hit enter. Type:
```
rm *.bz2
```
Hit enter. Type "y" and hit enter. Close the terminal. Open the terminal so
that you are logged in as user rather than root. Type:
```
cd azureus
```
Hit enter. Type:
```
./azureus
```
Hit enter. Azureus will open. Configure your preferences in the dialog box
presented and update the plugin if asked. When you click on a ".torrent" file
in Firefox you will be presented with a dialog box. Click the radio button
"open with" and click the checkbox "Do this automatically for files like this
form now on", then click the "browse" button in the dialog box and browse to
"home" > "azureus" and click on "azureus". Click "open". Click "OK". This will
allow you to download ".torrent" files from within Firefox. These files are
downloaded by default into the /home/your_user_name/.Azureus/downloads folder.
You will have to click on "View" > "Show hidden files" in "Applications" >
"File Browser" to get to them in the file browser.

Web Server:

Note: If you choose to enable SELinux in your Fedora Core 3 installation
you must pay special attention to some SELinux considerations with regard to
your web server setup. See

http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/selinux-apache-fc3/. You may choose to
disable SELinux for your web server installation only. To do this go to
"Applications" > "System Settings" > "Security Level" > and under (expanded)
"HTTPD Service" on the "SELinux" tab click in the checkbox for "Disable
SELinux protection for httpd daemon". (Be sure to click the "OK" box when
you're done.)

Subscribe to a service such as
https://www.dyndns.org/ or
http://www.easydns.com/ to register a new domain name (such as
your-name.org) and to have their DNS service map your computer's IP address to
your new registered domain name. (The command "ifconfig" at the root prompt
will output your IP address.) If you have a "dynamic" (changeable) IP address
you can use their dynamic DNS service.

Open the terminal. Type:
```
su -
```
Hit enter. Type your root password. Hit enter. Type:
```
gedit /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
```
Hit enter. In gedit scroll down to the "ServerAdmin" section and enter your
email address instead of "root@localhost". Scroll down to the "#ServerName"
section and uncomment it (take out the "#"). Then enter the registered DNS
name of your web site ("whatever.com") or your server's IP address instead of
"new.host.name". (If you don't know your IP address type "ifconfig" at the
root prompt.) Scroll down and change "UseCanonicalName Off" to
"UseCanonicalName On". Scroll down to the "Options" line and change "Options
Indexes FollowSymLinks" to "Options Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks
SymLinksifOwnerMatch ExecCGI MultiViews". Change "AllowOverride None" to
"AllowOverride Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit" in case you want to use
.htaccess files in any of your web subdirectories. Change "DirectoryIndex
index.html index.html.var" to "DirectoryIndex index.html index.html.var
index.shtml index.cgi index.php index.phtml index.php3 index.htm home.html
welcome.html". Under the "AddType application/x-compress .Z" and "AddType
application/x-gzip .gz .tgz" lines add the line: "AddType
application/x-httpd-php .php .phps .php3 .phtml .html .htm .shtml .fds".
Uncomment the line "#AddHandler cgi-script .cgi" and add ".pl" so that it
reads "AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl". Click on the "save" icon in gedit and
exit gedit.

If you have a favicon.ico copy it to /var/www/html while still logged in
as root (cp favicon.ico /var/www/html).

Go to "Applications" > "System Settings" > "Server Settings" > "Services".
Type in your root password in the dialog box that appears and click on "OK".
Scroll down the list and check the check box for "httpd". Click on the "save"
icon in the Service Configuration window and then close the window. Go to
"Applications" > "System Settings" > "Security Level" and make sure the check
box is checked for "WWW (HTTP)" in the "Trusted services" pane. Reboot your
machine.

Open Firefox and type "http://localhost/" in the URL window and hit enter.
You should see the default Apache/Fedora Core test page. Type your server's IP
address in the URL window and hit enter. You should see the test page again.
Type the registered DNS name of your web site ("whatever.com") in the URL
window and hit enter. You should see the test page yet again.

While still logged in as root copy your web site index.html and any other
HTTP content you may have to /var/www/html. You are now serving web pages from
your Fedora Core web server. You will find your server log files in
/etc/httpd/logs and you will be able to view them while logged in as root.

PHP and Perl:

PHP and Perl are available in Fedora Core 3 because we have done the
"everything" installation previously. If you have enabled the Apache web
server (see above) you can test your PHP and Perl installations by doing the
following: Open the terminal. Type:
```
su -
```
Hit enter. Type your root password. Hit enter. Type:
```
gedit /var/www/html/phpinfo.php
```
In gedit type:
```
<?php phpinfo();?>
```
Click the "save" icon in gedit and close gedit. While still in the root
terminal type:
```
gedit /var/www/html/printenv.pl
```
In gedit type:
```
#!/usr/bin/perl
##
##  printenv -- demo CGI program which just prints its environment
##

print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";
foreach $var (sort(keys(%ENV))) {
    $val = $ENV{$var};
    $val =~ s|\n|\\n|g;
    $val =~ s|"|\\"|g;
    print "$=\"$\"\n";
}
```
Click the "save" icon in gedit and close gedit. Type:
```
chmod 755 /var/www/html/printenv.pl
```
Hit enter. Then type:
```
chmod 755 /var/www/html/phpinfo.php
```
Hit enter. Now when you open these files from your web server
(http://whatever.com/phpinfo.php and http://whatever.com/printenv.pl) you will
be able to prove the functionality of your PHP and Perl installations. (In
order to allow cgi scripts to execute outside of the cgi-bin directory
configure your httpd.conf as described in the web server section above.)

Special note on configuring sendmail for PHP using your email
provider's SMTP (simple mail transport protocol): Your /etc/php.ini
file uses sendmail as the default transport agent for sending email from PHP
applications ("sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i"). The following quote
is from

Fedora Core 3 Release Notes: "By default, the Sendmail mail transport
agent (MTA) does not accept network connections from any host other than the
local computer. If you want to configure Sendmail as a server for other
clients, you must edit /etc/mail/sendmail.mc and change the DAEMON_OPTIONS
line to also listen on network devices (or comment out this option entirely
using the dnl comment delimiter). You must then regenerate
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf by running the following command (as root): 'make -C
/etc/mail'. Note that you must have the sendmail-cf package installed for this
to work." In order to accomplish this, edit "/etc/hosts" and add the line
"your.ip.address whatever.org whatever" where "your.ip.address" is the IP
address of your web server, "whatever.org" is the registered DNS name of your
web site (your canonical domain name), and "whatever" is your short domain
name (the characters before the dot). Separate the IP address from the domain
name with a couple of tabs. Edit "/etc/sysconfig/network" and change
"localhost.localdomain" to "whatever.org" where "whatever.org" is the
registered DNS name of your web site (your canonical domain name). Reboot.
Edit "/etc/mail/local-host-names" and include your domain name. Edit
"/etc/mail/sendmail.mc" and change "dnl
define(`SMART_HOST',`smtp.your.provider')dnl" to
"define(`SMART_HOST',`smtp.your.provider')dnl" where "smtp.your.provider" is
the smtp host that you use to send mail from your email client. Also change
"DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')dnl" to "dnl
DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')dnl". Also change "dnl
MASQUERADE_AS(`mydomain.com')dnl" to "MASQUERADE_AS(`your.provider.com')dnl"
where "your.provider.com" is the host that you use to send mail from your
email client (the characters after the "@"). Add these lines (near the bottom
of /etc/mail/sendmail.mc but above "MAILER"): "FEATURE(`genericstable',`hash
-o /etc/mail/genericstable.db')dnl" and
"GENERICS_DOMAIN_FILE(`/etc/mail/generics-domains')dnl". Edit or create if
required: "/etc/mail/generics-domains". Include in
"/etc/mail/generics-domains" your canonical domain name. (Be sure to add a
carriage return.) Edit or create if required: "/etc/mail/genericstable".
Include in "/etc/mail/genericstable" the line:"username
mailusername@your.provider.com" where "username" is your non-root Fedora user
name and "mailusername@your.provider.com" is your email address that you use
with your email client. (Be sure to add a carriage return.) As root execute
the command: "make -C /etc/mail". This will regenerate
"/etc/mail/sendmail.cf". Reboot or start (or restart) sendmail from
"Applications" > "System Settings" > "Server Settings" > "Services". (See

http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/linux-hn/sendmail.htm.)

MySQL:

MySQL version 3.23.58 is available in Fedora Core 3 because we have done
the "everything" installation previously. Go to "Applications" > "System
Settings" > "Server Settings" > "Services". Type in your root password in the
dialog box that appears and click on "OK". Scroll down the list and check the
check box for "mysqld". Click on the "save" icon in the Service Configuration
window and then close the window. Reboot your machine.

Open the terminal. Type:

su -

Hit enter. Type your root password. Hit enter. Type:

gedit /etc/my.cnf

Hit enter. In the mysqld section of my.cnf add the line:

skip-innodb

Your my.cnf should now look something like this:

[mysqld]
datadir=/var/lib/mysql
socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
skip-innodb

[mysql.server]
user=mysql
basedir=/var/lib

[safe_mysqld]
err-log=/var/log/mysqld.log
pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid

Click the "save" icon in gedit and close gedit. While still in the root
terminal type:

mysql -u root

Hit enter. You will see the mysql> query prompt. Type:

select user, host, password, select_priv, update_priv, delete_priv, insert_priv from mysql.user;

Hit enter. You will see something like this:

+------+------------------------+----------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
| user | host                   | password | select_priv | update_priv | delete_priv | insert_priv |
+------+------------------------+----------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
| root | localhost              |          | Y           | Y           | Y           | Y           |
| root | x1-6-00-04-5a-5e-ac-83 |          | Y           | Y           | Y           | Y           |
|      | localhost              |          | N           | N           | N           | N           |
|      | x1-6-00-04-5a-5e-ac-83 |          | N           | N           | N           | N           |
+------+------------------------+----------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
4 rows in set (0.17 sec)

mysql>

Type:

set password for 'root'@'localhost' = password ('newpassword');

where "newpassword" is the password that you want to use for the root MySQL
super user. Hit enter. Type:

set password for 'root'@'host' = password ('newpassword');

where "host" is the name of your host as reported in the "host" column
above and "newpassword" is the password that you want to use for the root
MySQL super user. Hit enter. Type:

select user, host, password, select_priv, update_priv, delete_priv, insert_priv from mysql.user;

Hit enter. You will see something like this with your password
hash-encrypted in the "password" column:

+------+------------------------+------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
| user | host                   | password         | select_priv | update_priv | delete_priv | insert_priv |
+------+------------------------+------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
| root | localhost              | 1e36745e3c0f99b0 | Y           | Y           | Y           | Y           |
| root | x1-6-00-04-5a-5e-ac-83 | 1e36745e3c0f99b0 | Y           | Y           | Y           | Y           |
|      | localhost              |                  | N           | N           | N           | N           |
|      | x1-6-00-04-5a-5e-ac-83 |                  | N           | N           | N           | N           |
+------+------------------------+------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
4 rows in set (0.00 sec)

mysql>

Type:

exit

Close the terminal. Reboot your machine. Open a terminal. Type:

su -

Hit enter. Type your root password. Hit enter. Type:

mysql -u root -p

Hit enter. MySQL should ask for your MySQL super user password. Type it in.
Hit enter. Type:

exit

You have successfully set up MySQL.

phpMyAdmin:

Open Firefox. Go to
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/ and download (save to disk) the latest stable
version in bzip2 format (phpMyAdmin-2.6.1.tar.bz2).

Open a terminal. Type:
```
su
```
Hit enter. Type your root password. Hit enter. Type:
```
mv *.tar.bz2 /var/www/html
```
Hit enter. Type:
```
cd /var/www/html
```
Hit enter. Type:
```
bzip2 -dc *.tar.bz2 | tar -xvf -
```
Hit enter. Type:
```
mv phpMyAdmin-2.6.1 phpmyadmin
```
Hit enter. Type:
```
su -
```
Hit enter. Type:
```
gedit /var/www/html/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php
```
In /var/www/html/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php change "$cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri'] =
'';" to "$cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri'] = ' http://whatever.com/phpmyadmin/';", change
"$cfg['blowfish_secret'] = ''; to "$cfg['blowfish_secret'] = 'passphrase';"
where "passphrase" is some arbitrary string of characters that the blowfish
algorithm will use to encrypt your password when using cookie type
authentication. Under "Server(s) configuration" change
"$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'config';" to
"$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'cookie';". Click on the "save" icon in
gedit and close gedit. Open http://whatever.com/phpmyadmin/ in Firefox (where
"whatever.com" is your web site). Type "root" in the "Username:" box and your
MySQL super user password in the "Password:" box. Click the "Login" button.
You should see the " Welcome to phpMyAdmin" web page. Open a terminal. Type:
```
su -
```
Hit enter. Type your root password. Hit enter. Type:
```
mysql -u root -p
```
Type in your MySQL super user password. Hit enter. For MySQL version
3.23.58 type:
```
GRANT USAGE ON mysql.* TO 'pma'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'pmapassword';
GRANT SELECT (
    Host, User, Select_priv, Insert_priv, Update_priv, Delete_priv,
    Create_priv, Drop_priv, Reload_priv, Shutdown_priv, Process_priv,
    File_priv, Grant_priv, References_priv, Index_priv, Alter_priv
    ) ON mysql.user TO 'pma'@'localhost';
GRANT SELECT ON mysql.db TO 'pma'@'localhost';
GRANT SELECT ON mysql.host TO 'pma'@'localhost';
GRANT SELECT (Host, Db, User, Table_name, Table_priv, Column_priv)
    ON mysql.tables_priv TO 'pma'@'localhost';
GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE ON phpmyadmin.* TO 'pma'@'localhost';
```
where "pmapassword" is the password for the pma user that you select for
the special "controluser" that has only the SELECT privilege on the mysql.user
(all columns except "Password"), mysql.db (all columns), mysql.host (all
columns) and mysql.tables_priv (all columns except "Grantor" & "Timestamp")
tables. Hit enter. Hit enter. Open Firefox, go to
http://whatever.org/phpmyadmin/scripts/create_tables.sql. (Substitute
"whatever.org" for your web site registered DNS name or IP address.) Click
"edit" > "select all", click "edit" > "copy", go back to the terminal and
click "edit" > "paste". Hit enter. The entire query should be executed at the
"mysql>" prompt. When the query finishes type "exit" at the mysql> prompt.
Type:
```
gedit /var/www/html/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php
```
In /var/www/html/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php change
"$cfg['Servers'][$i]['controluser'] = '';" to
"$cfg['Servers'][$i]['controluser'] = 'pma';", change
"$cfg['Servers'][$i]['controlpass'] = '';" to
"$cfg['Servers'][$i]['controlpass'] = 'pmapassword';" where "pmapassword" is
the password for the pma user that you selected earlier, change
"$cfg['Servers'][$i]['pmadb'] = '';" to "$cfg['Servers'][$i]['pmadb'] =
'phpmyadmin';", change "$cfg['Servers'][$i]['bookmarktable'] = '';" to
"$cfg['Servers'][$i]['bookmarktable'] = 'pma_bookmark';", change
"$cfg['Servers'][$i]['relation'] = '';" to "$cfg['Servers'][$i]['relation'] =
'pma_relation';", change "$cfg['Servers'][$i]['table_info'] = '';" to
"$cfg['Servers'][$i]['table_info'] = 'pma_table_info';", change
"$cfg['Servers'][$i]['table_coords'] = '';" to
"$cfg['Servers'][$i]['table_coords'] = 'pma_table_coords';", change
"$cfg['Servers'][$i]['pdf_pages'] = '';" to "$cfg['Servers'][$i]['pdf_pages']
= 'pma_pdf_pages';", change "$cfg['Servers'][$i]['column_info'] = '';" to
"$cfg['Servers'][$i]['column_info'] = 'pma_column_info';", change
"$cfg['Servers'][$i]['history'] = '';" to "$cfg['Servers'][$i]['history'] =
'pma_history';". Click on the "save" icon in gedit and close gedit. Close the
terminal. Open Firefox and go to http://whatever.com/phpmyadmin/ where
"whatever.com" is your web site registered DNS name or IP address. Log into
phpMyAdmin as root. Click on the down arrow in the "Database:" selection
dialog box in the left column. You should see the "mysql", "phpmyadmin", and
"test" databases listed. You may delete ("drop") the "test" database if you
wish. You have now successfully configured phpMyAdmin.

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Contents:

Installation:

Firefox and Thunderbird:

nVidia: (Use this section only if you have an
nVidia GeForce graphics card.)

True Type Fonts:

Java:

Flash:

RealPlayer:

Special warning regarding mixing incompatible
repositories for up2date, yum, apt, and synaptic:

Yum:

Apt and Synaptic:

Acrobat Reader:

MPlayer, Xmms, Rhythmbox, Xine, and Kaffeine
- all you need for multimedia:

NTFS support (for mounting your Windows
partition):

Bittorrent and bittorrent-gui:

Azureus for bittorrent:

Web Server:

PHP and Perl:

MySQL:

phpMyAdmin:

Resources:

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Fedora Core 3 Linux Installation Notes

Contents:

Installation:

Firefox and Thunderbird:

nVidia: (Use this section only if you have an nVidia GeForce graphics card.)

True Type Fonts:

Java:

Flash:

RealPlayer:

Special warning regarding mixing incompatible repositories for up2date, yum, apt, and synaptic:

Yum:

Apt and Synaptic:

Acrobat Reader:

MPlayer, Xmms, Rhythmbox, Xine, and Kaffeine - all you need for multimedia:

NTFS support (for mounting your Windows partition):

Bittorrent and bittorrent-gui:

Azureus for bittorrent:

Web Server:

PHP and Perl:

MySQL:

phpMyAdmin:

Resources:

nVidia: (Use this section only if you have an
nVidia GeForce graphics card.)

Special warning regarding mixing incompatible
repositories for up2date, yum, apt, and synaptic:

MPlayer, Xmms, Rhythmbox, Xine, and Kaffeine
- all you need for multimedia:

NTFS support (for mounting your Windows
partition):