Home
Assignments:
CMTE
Presonal:
Academics
About Me
Contact Me
Resume
Research
Languages:
Bengali
Tamil
Extras:
Fedora 7 Configuration
Links
Guests:
Sign Guestbook
Yum:
Yum, being the master program, used to configure many others, it's very important to configure yum itself.
First of all, if you have an access to a local repository, add the url of that to your
/etc/yum.conf file like this: (for
IIT Kharagpur users)[fedora-core] name = Fedora Core baseurl=http://10.3.140.50/fedora/releases/7/Everything/i386/os/ gpgcheck=1
[fedora-updates] name = Fedora Updates baseurl=http://10.3.140.50/fedora/updates/7/i386/ gpgcheck=1
If you want to use only the local repositories then remove the other repo files from
/etc/yum.repos.d directory (needs root privileges) and issue command(s)
for installation.If you want to use global repositories like livna or freshrpms, before installing any package, make sure that your http_proxy is set. If not, you can do it manually by command:
$ export http_proxy='http://10.3.100.212:8080'- or the address of your choice. Once this is done, command:
$ yum install packagenamewill install a package named packagename.
To add livna, go to http://livna.org.Get the rpm file and install it.
Similar procedure for freshrpms.
Downloaded packages can be retained in /var/cache/yum/ direcory's corresponding subdirectories if /etc/yum.conf is edited like this:
keepcash=1(it shouldnot be 0)
XMMS:
Install Xmms (From yum - Check the yum conguration part of this manual.)
Install xmms-mp3(From yum - You need to have livna repository installed. Check the yum conguration part of this manual.)
Mounting Windows:
Check your windows partitions from command:
$ /sbin/fdisk -l(needs root previleges).
Disk /dev/sda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 1275 10241406 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 1276 4864 28828642+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda5 1276 2550 10241406 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda6 2551 3825 10241406 b W95 FAT32 /dev/sda7 4744 4864 971901 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda8 3826 4743 7373803+ 83 Linux Partition table entries are not in disk order
Install ntfs-3g (with write support) by command:
$yum install ntfs-3g(again check the YUM configuration part of this manual).
Edit your
/etc/fstab and add lines like these:/dev/sda1 /media/windows/C ntfs-3g defaults 0 0 /dev/sda5 /media/windows/D ntfs-3g defaults 0 0 /dev/sda6 /media/windows/E vfat rw,defaults,umask=0000 0 0Here it is worthy to note that for FAT32 no other driver is needed to install.
AmaroK:
Install realplayer. Start the amaroK and go to Tools->Configure Amarok option.Go to Engine tab and change the sound system from Xine Engine to Helix Engine. Change the directories for codecs, plugins and core according to your settings. In general, Real Player installs it's files to
/usr/local directory, so, change the core directory
to :/usr/local/RealPlayer/commonplugins directory to:
/usr/local/RealPlayer/pluginscodecs directory to :
/usr/local/RealPlayer/codecsYou are ready to rock!
More help can be found at: