Fedora 7 Tips and Tricks (v0.8)
Last modified:
Friday November 9, 2012
This is based on my Fedora Core 6 Tips
and Tricks page.
This is in maintenance only mode since
there is now a Fedora 8 version
of this guide in the works.
Recent changes are highlighted in yellow.
I've started to add x86_64 specific instructions below when they differ from
traditional 32-bit instructions. The biggest issue is with multimedia
plug-ins which are still often available only in 32-bit versions.
Add support for other repositories
Fedora comes with a ton of software but there are still plenty of packages
of interest to most users that are not included for a variety of reasons.
This is where you find the MP3 plug-in and a ton of other packages.
These instructions can vary depending on 32bit or
64bit architecture. If there is a difference it will be noted.
If you don't know which architecture you're running you can run
the following command:
$ uname -m
x86_64
...or...
i686
I'm still working on the 64 bit specific instructions so your feedback
is very important.
Before you add repositories it's probably a good idea to make sure
your system is fully updated first.
At this point I'm prefering the Livna repository as it's
the most useful and complete but at some point I might need to add
another one for things that are lacking there.
The easiest way to get started is to install the
livna-release packages:
# rpm -ihv http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-7.rpm
Please note: If you are upgrading from a previous
release this command will fail with a conflict. Skip to the next
section on upgrading from a previous release instead.
When adding additional repositories be very careful as many
respositories don't mix well. It's ok to add specialized repositories such
as the one for Flash below, but
when mixing general repositories such as FreshRPMs, Livna or
ATrpms there are often conflicts that are difficult to recover from.
You can browse the packages available there at
http://livna-dl.reloumirrors.net/fedora/7/.
Upgrading from previous Fedora
There are a few things you need to do when upgrading from a previous version
of Fedora. This was tested only with Fedora Core 6
so older versions may not work quite as easily.
The first thing you want to do is upgrade the repository
package for the newer version.
# rpm -Uhv http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-7.rpm
Fedora 7 comes with a much improved font package which does NOT
get installed when you upgrade for some reason. You'll first want to
remove any of the Microsoft fonts first if you had installed them previously
then install the new Red Hat provided fonts:
# rpm -ev msttcorefonts
# yum -y install liberation-fonts
# service xfs restart
And finally you're going to need to do an update of the whole system.
This will most likely pick up official Fedora updates as well as updated
packages from the Livna repository. This might take a while.
# yum -y update
Install MP3 Plug-in
Since you've been following along this next step is about as easy as it gets. Just use yum to automatically
install the MP3 plug-ins for xmms and
Rhythmbox like this:
# yum -y install xmms xmms-mp3 xmms-faad2 gstreamer-plugins-ugly \
gstreamer-plugins-bad libmad libid3tag
While you're here you might as well install my personal favorite (this week
at least) music player Banshee:
# yum -y install banshee
The -y flag is to automatically answer
yes to any question. If you want to be able to say no you can ignore that
flag.
While you're there I highly recommend the grip CD ripper which supports both MP3 and Ogg formats. Once again installation
is quite simple:
# yum -y install grip
Install Macromedia Flash/Shockwave plug-in
Flash Plug-in 9.0
32-bit instructions:
To automatically install/update the Macromedia Flash version 9.0 plug-in
install the YUM configuration RPM direction from Adobe:
# rpm -ihv http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
You can read more about Adobe's options for installing
the Flash Plug-in at
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash.
64-bit instructions:
The Adobe repositories aren't set up to handle
64-bit architectures so you have to get the same package but from a
different source.
You need to download
This File and
copy it to your /etc/yum.repos.d directory.
# cd /etc/yum.repos.d
# wget http://macromedia.mplug.org/macromedia-i386.repo
Both architecture instructions:
One you have the correct repository you just have
to do this to install the Flash plug-in version 9.0:
# yum -y install flash-plugin
You can get more information about this plug-in at
http://macromedia.mplug.org/.
Before the plug-in gets installed you'll need to agree to the terms
of the license.
Special 64-bit instructions:
Now the problem with 64 bit, even on Windows, is that most plug-ins are still
for some reason only available in a 32 bit version. This is a problem because
a 64 bit version of Firefox can only use 64 bit plugins.
There are several
ways to solve this and the easiest method seems to change all the time.
Until all plug-ins are available in 64 bit versions some type of hack will
be necessary.
As several people have mentioned in the comments section below, the
nspluginwrapper is becoming the preferred way of solving this problem.
What this plug-in does is allow 32-bit plug-ins to be used in a 64-bit
browser. Installing it is not complicated but you do have to be careful to
"refresh" it any time you install/update any 32-bit plugins.
You can download the latest plug-in and viewer, BOTH are necessary, from
http://gwenole.beauchesne.info/en/projects/nspluginwrapper then
install them. If you had previously installed the 32-bit version of Firefox
you'll need to remove that first. The versions are accurate as of the time
I wrote this so you might need to update the paths below if the versions
were updated and I haven't updated this guide yet.
# rpm -ev firefox-32
# rpm -ihv http://gwenole.beauchesne.info/projects/nspluginwrapper/files/nspluginwrapper-0.9.91.4-1.x86_64.rpm \
http://gwenole.beauchesne.info/projects/nspluginwrapper/files/nspluginwrapper-i386-0.9.91.4-1.x86_64.rpm
If you do update/add/remove any 32-bit plug-ins you'll need to run
a command line program to make sure the wrapper catches the update:
$ nspluginwrapper -u
Install DVD player
Currently I find the DVD player that works best is the
Xine Multimedia Player
which is found in the Livna repository so installing it is
just this simple:
# yum -y install xine xine-lib xine-skins xine-lib-extras-nonfree libdvdcss
This will install the xine DVD/VCD/CD player.
Now to get xine to automatically play a DVD upon insertion instead
of the Totem player which can't actually play DVDs, you can simply
use the gconftool-2 utility as follows:
$ gconftool-2 --set /desktop/gnome/volume_manager/autoplay_dvd_command \
'xine --auto-play --auto-scan dvd' --type='string'
Install MPlayer Media Player
At some point you're probably going to want to play a QuickTime,
AVI or ASF file so you'll want the MPlayer media player. Fortunately
with the FreshRpms repositories it's also very easy to download and
install.
Then you can go ahead and install mplayer and all it's dependencies:
# yum -y install mplayer mplayer-gui mplayer-skins mplayer-fonts mplayerplug-in
This command line will download the whole kit and kaboodle, command line
utilities, plug-ins, etc.
If you want to play content from a command line you will want to use
the gmplayer version which will include
a skin-able control panel.
Restart your web browser after that whole mess is done installing and
you'll also have a plug-in for Mozilla so you can play embedded content.
While you're at it be sure to configure mplayer
to use the ALSA sound system rather than the default. It just works better.
Edit the file ~/.mplayer/config and add the following line:
ao=alsa
You can enable support for
mms streaming by opening
Firefox and
click on the special URL
about:config. Right click
on the list and choose
New then choose
String. For the
preference name enter
network.protocol-handler.app.mms then for
the
string value enter
gmplayer.
Special 64-bit instructions:
The above installs the 64-bit version of everything but because your other
plug-ins are 32-bits you need to run the 32-bit version of Firefox, which
won't be able to use the 64-bit version of the plug-in you just installed. The
plug-in can use the 64-bit version of the mplayer application just fine so all
you need to do then is to install the 32-bit mplayerplug-in plus a dependency
it requires. If you know of any easier way to do this please let me know below.
# rpm -ihv http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/fedora/linux/7/mplayerplug-in/mplayerplug-in-3.40-1.fc7.i386.rpm
Both 32-bit and 64-bit instructions:
And finally you'll probably also want some additional codecs to play
all that proprietary video that seems to have infected the Internet.
Go to the MPlayer Download
page and download the essential Binaries Codec Package.
You'll need to install those
files in /usr/local/lib/win32. Here are
the steps. Remember the exact file names may change at some point.
If you also installed xine you will
need a symlink since it expects codecs to be in a different directory.
# gtar xjvf essential-20061022.tar.bz2
# mkdir /usr/local/lib/win32
# mv essential-20061022/* /usr/local/lib/win32
# ln -s /usr/local/lib/win32 /usr/lib/win32
# ln -s /usr/local/lib/win32 /usr/local/lib/codecs
# ln -s /usr/local/lib/win32 /usr/lib/codecs
Install VLC (VideoLAN Client)
Multimedia can be the achilles heel of Linux, but with just a little
work you should be able to play just about anything your friends can.
Besides Mplayer the other great video player is called VLC. It too is
trivially easy to install once you have your repositories set up:
# yum -y install videolan-client
Once the client and a zillion dependencies get installed you can play
a huge variety of video formats easy with the command
vlc
Install RealPlayer 10 Media Player
This one is a little tricky only because the latest official release
is horribly out of date and doesn't even use ALSA for sound.
So rather than deal with annoying workarounds I think the easiest thing
to do now is to just use the latest daily build that's available. I'm
currently using RealPlayer-10.1.0.3114-20070503.i586.rpm which you can just download and install.
This one pretty much "just works" and doesn't seem to have any bugs I can see.
Just install it:
$ rpm -ihv RealPlayer-10.1.0.3114-20070503.i586.rpm
Then whenever you want to view something just use
/usr/bin/realplay.
Here is a link to a cute test video to make sure it's working for you.
If you also installed Mplayer above then you will likely run into
a problem where the Mplayer provided Real Media plug-in will be run
instead of the one installed by the RealPlayer package. The mplayer
verison of the plug-in does not work correctly in most cases and causes
more problems than it solves. The only way I've found to get rid of it
is to just simply delete the plug-in files:
# cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
# rm mplayerplug-in-rm.*
You'll of course need to do that again should you re-install or upgrade the
mplayer plug-ins.
Install Java J2RE and Mozilla Plug-in
It's also very handy to have the Java run-time environment available
and most importantly a Mozilla plug-in so you can view dynamic content.
It's unfortunate that Mozilla will actually crash if you go to a site
containing Java and you don't have the plug-in installed.
The libraries in Fedora 7 are newer than the ones
used by Sun's build so you'll also need to install a compatability
library.
Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 Update 2 (at the time
I wrote this) from
Java.com.
You'll want to grab the Linux RPM in self-extracting file.
Then you want to install it with:
# yum -y install compat-libstdc++-33
# sh ./jre-6u2-linux-i586-rpm.bin
Then you'll probably want to enable Java Plug-ins and here once
again there is no easy way:
# ln -s /usr/java/jre1.6.0_02/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
And finally you'll need to tell Fedora that you wish to use this
version of Java as the preferred interpreter rather than the Open
Source version that's installed by default. You'll of course need to adjust
the full pathname if you install a newer version of the jre than the
one in this example:
# /usr/sbin/alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java \
/usr/java/jre1.6.0_02/bin/java 1602
# /usr/sbin/alternatives --config java
There are 2 programs which provide 'java'.
Selection Command
-----------------------------------------------
+ 1 /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.5.0-gcj/bin/java
* 2 /usr/java/jre1.6.0_02/bin/java
Enter to keep the current selection[+], or type selection number: 2
# java -version
java version "1.6.0_02"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_02-b05)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.6.0_02-b05, mixed mode, sharing)
If you know of an easier way please post it to the Comments section below.
After you re-start your browser you can test the Java plug-in installation
at http://java.com/en/download/installed.jsp
Install NTFS driver
With the repositories it's now very easy to add NTFS support to Fedora:
# yum -y install ntfs-3g-devel ntfs-config
Then you can simply mount NTFS file systems
just like any other filesystem.
You can find more detailed
information about this driver at
http://www.ntfs-3g.org/
The ntfs-config package contains
applications that allow you to more easily manage NTFS partitions.
Install Internet Explorer
I know what you're saying, why would I ever want Internet Explorer
installed on my perfectly good Linux system? If you don't have your
own answer to that question, feel free to just skip this section. For everyone
else, it's actually quite easy thanks to some very handy scripts from
IEs4Linux.
Before you start you'll need to make sure you have wine and cabextract installed:
# yum -y install wine cabextract
Then just download the latest script, extract and run it. The example below is based on
version 2.0.5, just adjust the version number as necessary. Please
note that you will want to install and run this as your own user, NOT
as root. I used the defaults except that I installed all the versions
of IE. I do some web development and I always find myself needing to resolve
some goofy incompatibilites with older versions of IE.
$ gtar xzvf ies4linux-2.0.5.tar.gz
$ cd ies4linux-2.0.5
$ ./ies4linux
Welcome, greg! I'm IEs4Linux.
I can install IE 6, 5.5 and 5.0 for you easily and quickly.
You are just four 'enter's away from your IEs.
I'll ask you some questions now. Just answer y or n (default answer is the bold one)
IE 6 will be installed automatically.
Do you want to install IE 5.5 SP2 too? [ y / n ] y
.
.
.
IEs 4 Linux installations finished!
To run your IEs, type:
ie6
ie55
ie5
You can read more about this feature on my Internet
Explorer with ActiveX on Linux page. It goes into a little more detail
about using IE on Linux.
Install Other Odds and Ends
This section used to have information on installing additional fonts.
With the font improvements in Fedora 7 they really aren't
needed any more.
Other Handy Utilities
Here are a few other tools that aren't installed by default but a lot of
people find handy:
# yum -y install gnomebaker testdisk thunderbird \
screen cups-pdf filelight unrar boost
boost - Advanced graphical Bittorrent client
cups-pdf - Add-on to CUPS which creates a PDF Printer which you can use to print any document in PDF format. The file is written to your Desktop.
filelight - A wonderful graphical viewer of where your disk space usage is. Very handy for cleaning up your home directory.
gnomebaker - GTK based CD/DVD burning utility
screen - If you do a lot with the command line you'll find screen invaluable
testdisk - Two command line utilities to recover lost partitions and undelete files on FAT filesystems. VERY handy for undeleting files on flash memory cards.
thunderbird - Excellent E-mail client that complements Firefox
unrar - Useful utility to extract RAR archives
Other Useful Resources
I've tried to not just copy other people's tips so I've included a list
of other people's tips and tricks I've found to be useful. There should
be little or no overlap.
FedoraForum - Linux Support Community -
This is now the official way to get community support of the Fedora Linux
system. There is no official Red Hat mailing list for any version of
Fedora any more.
Mauriat Miranda's F7 Installation Guide -
Great guide that goes into more depth of selecting options during the
installation process. If you do need the MS TrueType fonts for whatever
reason this is also the source for them.
The Unofficial Fedora FAQ -
Another great guide that should answer most general questions about Fedora.
Fedora 7 doesn't seem to be addressed there yet but most answers are
the same for both FC6 and F7.
This Fedora 7 Tips & Tricks translated into Italian -
Thanks to Guido for translating this guide into Italian. Please contact
me if you wish to translate this guide into other languages.
Donate via Paypal:
All these guides are done on my personal time as a community service.
Please consider a donation to allow me to allocate the time to put
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The comments section below is only for comments, suggestions or corrections
for this guide only. Please do not use this for general Fedora/Linux support.
If you do require support for something other than what's described here
I recommend using Fedora Forums.
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Comments From People Like You!
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jack182
10-Mar-2008 00:32 |
Hi,
I dont know if the problem here is correct but im been hours figuring this out: my problem is about java. when i run jconsole or any grapical java it always give me this problem.Im using fedora 8.
xcb_xlib.c:50: xcb_xlib_unlock: Assertion `c->xlib.lock' failed.
how can solve this problem thanks a lot.
cheers.
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jenny
29-Feb-2008 05:40 |
Plz let me know whether Fedora 7 supports PHP 4 or PHP 5. In the documentation it was given that the documentation is for PHP 5.2.2
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Jeffery Hallett
08-Feb-2008 12:55 |
Thank you, thank you, thank you. These tips are clear and concise AND they worked for me.
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Richard Stover
08-Jan-2008 23:10 |
Very useful site. Thanks.
The instruction for installing vlc seem to be incorrect. The vlc website
gives this:
yum -y install vlc
yum -y install python-vlc mozilla-vlc (optional)
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ddcrabb
15-Dec-2007 15:02 |
Great site.
I tried to download and install the flash plugin from your instructions, but the livna repository has apparently been changed, as I kept getting a "404" error on all mirrors for one of the package items. (Sorry, I didn't think to write down which one) I'm running BLAG 70000, with Firefox(BonEcho) 2.0.0.6.
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jack
03-Dec-2007 01:37 |
Hello when i follow the jre plugin installation..it doesnt seem to work..any idea?im using fedora 7 and jre1.6 update 3
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Elmo
26-Oct-2007 08:18 |
Nice site ... people like you is the reason Linux kicks ass! Thank you!!!
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Jason
10-Oct-2007 02:49 |
Great Guild,
I would suggest two addition's:
yum-fastestmirror - to speed up yum downloads
and
yumex - Gui interface for yum, this can help in searching and disabling repository's
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Tarique Islam
03-Oct-2007 13:16 |
Thanks for this...great site!
Helped me a lot.
Hope you'll continue a thread on fedora 8 as well.
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Arnaud
30-Sep-2007 21:51 |
Excellent stuff ! Very helpful. Thanks a lot.
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Ness
20-Sep-2007 07:32 |
Excellent Site.. thank you
can i call you Jesus cuz you were my savior..
Fedora Newbie
P4 3.20
Toshiba A65
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Brian
08-Sep-2007 09:23 |
I love this site - I can easily find the info I need, and use the guides to get my stuff up and running -Thank you for providing this for us.
-Brian
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Serendippo
08-Sep-2007 04:29 |
just another useful site regarding "NSpluginwrapper" to use Flash inside Firefox for x86_64 hardware:
http://www.my-guides.net/en/content/view/26/26/
Please note that the above URI easily explains how to install several applications in Fedora 6 -- thus you may want to change version numbers and check for newer releases.
Have fun with all that.
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Jeff
01-Sep-2007 23:31 |
You are the man. Thanks for the info.
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Alfred
29-Aug-2007 12:07 |
Thanks a lot.........
Everything i want, i got from u.....again thanks a lot...
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Frank Soranno
15-Aug-2007 17:24 |
Thanks for the help,it is appreciated.
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Floyd J. Carinci
06-Aug-2007 19:25 |
THANK YOU!!!!!
I'm a brand new Fedora user, and a Linux newbie. Your 'cut-and-paste' commands are invaluable!!!
THANK YOU AGAIN!!!!
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Albatross
05-Aug-2007 11:25 |
Thanks Serge, I learned the lesson you mention the hard way, but I got it straightened out now. Here are some ongoing questions:
1) Still can't get embedded flash videos to produce sound - other multimedia works okay. Using the latest updates of Fedora and Firefox
2) Still can't get Xine to play wmv/asf videos again - had it working under Fedora 5.
Any help will be deeply appreciated, "my name" at "my name".org
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David
23-Jul-2007 06:58 |
I just want to say thanks to you for going thru all this trouble to help out us new guys. Not everybody is willing to sit down and write out step by step instructions like you. It's people like you that make Linux a GREAT Community rather than just some other operating system.
Well Done!!!
David
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Alex
19-Jul-2007 17:16 |
this guide is great, but the post made below by "Clintec" about adding RAR support is a VERY helpful addition. I've searched all over for this, and now I can unrar files! Thanks Clintec!
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John Horne
09-Jul-2007 10:59 |
Fedora 7 x86_64:
Couldn't get the java and plugin to work at all. Found this link instead which works fine:
http://fedora64.org/desktop-64-posts/java-x86_64/
It's an older version of Java, but the test link to http://java.com/en/download/installed.jsp now sort of works. I get no 'missing plugin' errors, the test just reports that I am using an older version of Java.
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Serendippo
03-Jul-2007 08:40 |
a brief note about Firefox and Flash, listing what I have gathered on the net...
* somebody already mentioned nspluginwrapper, which is to be found at http://gwenole.beauchesne.info/en/projects/nspluginwrapper
* James Ward puts forward his way with Gentoo here http://www.jamesward.org/wordpress/2006/12/06/flash-9-on-64bit-linux-in-2-commands/
* Darron Schall uses Suse 10.2 and has a relatively simpler workaround (but it turned out to be ineffective, at least for me) - http://www.darronschall.com/weblog/archives/000258.cfm
* An Ubuntu 6.10 "Efty Edg" user devised something different and IMHO somewhat complicated, here https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FirefoxAMD64FlashJava
* Finally, Mike Melanson's blog seems authoritative on the entire subject, here http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/
ENJOY!
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Rick
02-Jul-2007 06:04 |
can I suggest you add firehol to the list of packages to install.
IMHO this is the best firewall solution for Linux out there at the moment and an essential part of all our server installs.
http://firehol.sourceforge.net/
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Fachtna Roe
28-Jun-2007 17:22 |
(1) Using firefox-32 throws up errors about missing files:
Error: /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.4/firefox-bin not found
/usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.4/firefox-bin not found
Sorry that I have no solution. Using this firefox-32 would also need icons to be changed in some places.
(2) Zap, some of those files you gave locations for have changed. Best is to go to ftp://ftp.msiu.ru/pub/fedora/tigro/ and navigate to what you want.
Example: ftp://ftp.msiu.ru/pub/fedora/7/updates/tigro/i386/tigro-release-7-2.i386.rpm is the replacement location for:
ftp://ftp.msiu.ru/pub/fedora/7/updates/tigro/i386/tigro-release-7-1.i386.rpm
(3) Alvaro, you're right about the new download method for Flash. Sadly, they don't address the 32/64 bit issue that is the focus of this page. A kick up the ass might help them, but that's just a technical thought!
Just some thoughts.
Regards,
Fachtna.
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zap
26-Jun-2007 09:46 |
Oh my, sorry for my misleading comment, I got nspluginwrapper in a separate RPM a long time ago and it works so transparently that I even forgot it's not part of Fedora distribution.
If somebody needs it, it is available from Tigro's repository (a small Russian rpm repository) which is compatible with base repository and with livna repository (e.g. rpms will never conflict).
http://updates.msiu.ru/blog/article/tigro-for-fedora-7-i386x8664
Unfortunately, the announce above is in Russian, but you can simply use it by installing one of these rpms:
ftp://ftp.msiu.ru/pub/fedora/7/updates/tigro/i386/tigro-release-7-1.i386.rpm
ftp://ftp.msiu.ru/pub/fedora/7/updates/tigro/x86_64/tigro-release-7-1.x86_64.rpm
Alternatively, you can get the rpms "the old way" via ftp, they should not depend on anything:
ftp://ftp.msiu.ru/pub/fedora/tigro
It is a small but nice repository, featuring freetype-with-hinting-and-subpixel-rendering, some multimedia packages and other small niceties you can't have from US repositories due to US patents. Also it contains Sun JAVA rpms prepackaged for Fedora.
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zap
24-Jun-2007 15:04 |
Using nspluginwrapper is pretty handy, and it's part of the Fedora repository. So basically instead of installing firefox-32 you can do:
yum install nspluginwrapper nspluginwrapper-i386
after you install the flash plugin, and voila - you have working flash in 64-bit firefox.
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Sbuffo
19-Jun-2007 13:37 |
All is good, very good and precious, but there're many troubles around theese purposes about Java.
Now, my Firefox doesn't good work, because the pages don't require any other plug in than it is in my PC, an Athlon (<< java version "1.6.0_01" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_01-b06) Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.6.0_01-b06, mixed mode, sharing) >>), but I can't view nothing of applets. Further, Java tells me that it's impossible to create the Java virtual machine, when I digit several things, but I remember only the crazy trying << java -32 >>.
The system is Fedora Core 7 x86_64, 2.6.21-1.3228.fc7.
Finally, I hope that you understood, I worked forever as root.
P.S.: Sorry for my English, you know, I don't live in a anglosaxon Country. :-)
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Clintec
18-Jun-2007 22:35 |
Here is something that I have found valuable... adding RAR & UNRAR compression functionality under linux. Just download this file: http://fileforum.betanews.com/sendfile/1053350629/2/rarlinux-3.7.0.tar.gz
and untar it. Finally copy the 3 files (rar, rar_static, unrar) to your /usr/bin folder and automatically the Software Archiver can automatically uncompress RAR files!
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Aaron
18-Jun-2007 15:02 |
Follow up to the firefox-32 package comment.
This should be the tip/trick mentioned on your page to use this package:
yum install firefox-32
since making the change your way gets smashed on a firefox update (as I found out when firefox 2.0.0.4 came out).
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Alvaro
18-Jun-2007 10:15 |
There is an official flash repository from adobe now.
http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2007/06/new_installation_method.html
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Chris
15-Jun-2007 09:42 |
F-7 has a handy rpm, called firefox-32-0.0.1-5.fc7.src.rpm, which after compilation and installation makes running firefox in 32 bit mode a piece of cake.
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tecknophreak
13-Jun-2007 08:37 |
Xine requests that the win32 codecs reside in /usr/lib/win32, opposed to MPlayer looking in /usr/local/lib/win32, so a soft link will do the job.
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Brad
09-Jun-2007 21:30 |
To set up the livna repository.
rpm -Uvh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-7.rpm
That one has a lot of good stuff in it.
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Pete Schmitt
09-Jun-2007 21:30 |
banshee dies as soon as a song is selected to play
get the following error:
ERROR: Caught a segmentation fault while loading plugin file:
/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstaudioresample.so
Please either:
- remove it and restart.
- run with --gst-disable-segtrap and debug.
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Sindre Pedersen Bj??rdal
09-Jun-2007 21:30 |
Fedora 7 includes the Liberation Fonts, so there's really no need to add the Windows Core fonts, all they give is reduced freedom.
See http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f7/en_US/sn-Desktop.html#sn-Liberation-fonts
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MITBeta
09-Jun-2007 21:30 |
You can use nspluginwrapper to run x32 plugins in x64 Firefox.
http://gwenole.beauchesne.info/en/projects/nspluginwrapper
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Lesley Mitchell
09-Jun-2007 21:30 |
"And finally you'll need to tell Fedora that you wish to use this version of Java as the preferred interpreter rather than the Open Source version that's installed by default."
Alternatively, you can use the sun-compat package from the jpackage project to provide the required guff to make Sun's java work with the other java stuff provided in Fedora:
http://www.jpackage.org/browser/rpm.php?jppversion=1.7&id=6804
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Serge
09-Jun-2007 21:30 |
It would be nice to see a warning for readers not to install Freshrpms and Livna repositories at the same time. They're not compatible, and if you update from them both, you'll learn it the hard way.
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