Monday, November 29, 2010

Fedora 13 setup

yum update
reboot
yum install httpd
yum install createrepo rpm-devel rpmdevtools expat-devel zlib-devel
reboot

rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm

mv /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r)-nouveau.img
dracut /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)

vi /etc/grub.conf
Add to end of Kernel line:
rdblacklist=nouveau nomodeset nouveau.modeset=0

Make sure kernel mod is allowed to load.
setsebool -P allow_execstack on

yum install kmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.x86_64
reboot

nvidia-settings
reboot

Install Firefox
rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/remi-release-13.rpm
yum --enablerepo=remi list firefox
yum --enablerepo=remi install firefox


Download Adobe 64-bit flash player from adobe home page.
Untar downloaded file.
Install libflashPlayer.so in ~tmurray/.mozilla/plugins directory.

Install skype
yum -y install libXv.i686 libXScrnSaver.i686 qt.i686 qt-x11.i686 pulseaudio-libs.i686 pulseaudio-libs-glib2.i686 alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i686

wget http://download.skype.com/linux/skype-2.1.0.81-fc10.i586.rpm

rpm -ivh skype-2.1.0.81-fc10.i586.rpm


Install Virtualbox

http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2010/install-virtualbox-with-yum-on-fedora-centos-red-hat-rhel/

cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/virtualbox.repo
yum install gcc kernel-devel kernel-headers

vi /root/.bashrc
KERN_DIR=/usr/src/kernels/`uname -r`
export KERN_DIR

yum install VirtualBox-3.2

yum install thunderbird
yum install thunderbird-lightning
 yum install mysql-workbench

Download/install latest jre and jdk java rpms