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Welcome to my personal Fedora 9 32-bit tips and tricks guide .

Updated 22-June-2008

Install Livna repository
What is Livna? Livna is a third party repository that provides restricted and proprietary software such as multimedia codecs and binary drivers.

[edward@spoiltspace.co.uk]$ sudo rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-9.rpm
[edward@spoiltspace.co.uk]$ sudo rpm –import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-livna

Install NVIDIA and ATI Catalyst Drivers
NVIDIA has not released any driver compatible with the Xorg released in Fedora 9. Do not try to install the driver at this point. The NVIDIA drivers are not compatible with the development version of Xorg shipped with Fedora 9. A patched nVidia driver for kernel 2.6.25 is available in livna-testing, however you must modify your configuration to disable 3D as shown here. Alternatively, downgrade Xorg and mesa-libGL to the Fedora 8 versions.

The Catalyst driver has been patched to work with 2.6.25, however due to a symbol export problem it will not load under x86_64 systems. To make matters worse, the Catalyst 8.4 drivers are also incompatible with F9’s Xorg version. See here for more information.

New driver releases from both NVIDIA and AMD/ATI will fix the problem. The new drivers will be released soon.

31 MAY UPDATE To install Nvidia: [edward@spoiltspace.co.uk]$ sudo yum install kmod-nvidia

22 JUNE UPDATE You have to downgrade the xorg server in order to install ATI: click here for more info

Install MP3 Players

[edward@spoiltspace.co.uk]$ sudo yum install audacious audacious-plugins-nonfree* xmms xmms-mp3 xmms-faad2 amarok amarok-extras-nonfree amarok-visualisation rhythmbox gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-ffmpeg mpg321 k3b-extras-nonfree

Install Media Players

[edward@spoiltspace.co.uk]$ sudo yum install vlc xine xine-lib-extras xine-lib-extras-nonfree libdvdcss mplayer mplayer-gui gecko-mediaplayer mencoder

Binary Codecs
Go to http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/ and Download the .tar.bz2 package according to you Architecture, for 32-bit users download this file directly: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/all-20071007.tar.bz2
Now install the binary codecs:

[edward@spoiltspace.co.uk]$ sudo mkdir -p /usr/lib/codecs
[edward@spoiltspace.co.uk]$ sudo tar -jxvf all-20071007.tar.bz2 –strip-components 1 -C /usr/lib/codecs/

Install Reaplayer
Go to http://www.real.com/linux/ and download the RealPlayer 11.0 Gold version. Select: “Advanced Installation Options” > “RedHat Package”

[edward@spoiltspace.co.uk]$ sudo rpm -ivh RealPlayer11GOLD.rpm
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:RealPlayer ########################################### [100%]

Install Adobe Flash Plugin and Adobe Acrobat Reader
Install and use Adobe’s own yum repository.

[edward@spoiltspace.co.uk]$ sudo rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
[edward@spoiltspace.co.uk]$ sudo rpm –import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux
[edward@spoiltspace.co.uk]$ sudo yum install flash-plugin libflashsupport AdobeReader_enu

Install Google Picasa and Google Desktop
Downloadthe key and then use rpm to install it.

[edward@spoiltspace.co.uk]$ wget https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub
[edward@spoiltspace.co.uk]$ rpm –import linux_signing_key.pub

32bit: As root, add the following to a file called google.repo in /etc/yum.repos.d/

[google]
name=Google - i386
baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/i386
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1

64bit: As root, add the following to a file called google.repo in /etc/yum.repos.d/

[google64]
name=Google - x86_64
baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/x86_64
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1

Then Install Google Picasa and Google Search

[edward@spoiltspace.co.uk]$ yum install picasa google-desktop-linux

Mount your NTFS partitions
NTFS support is already included in Fedora. Download and install the graphical NTFS Configuration utility.

[edward@spoiltspace.co.uk]$ sudo yum install ntfs-config

Run ntfs-config and mount your internal & external ntfs drives.

Enjoy

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